@Adam yes…I also enjoyed Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynn…it’s non-fiction, but reads like historical fiction…He focuses on the Comanche’s role in the border wars…
I can’t remember the author 🙁 Maybe someone can help with that. She usually writes about adopting babies. She wrote one book that took place in Galveston and one took place in Austin. I hope we can figure this out–I liked these books!
Another book set in Galveston, which is beginning to be more southeast than southwest: Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson who also wrote Devil in the White City. There’s more death in Isaac’,s Storm but less cruelty than in White City and he gives a fascinating early history of Galveston — things I never knew and I lived there for a short time.
Oooh. Also, “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian” by Stegner. Harrowing account of John Wesley Powell’s trip down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. Extraordinary book, especially if you’ve floated the river.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is a Pulitzer winner. Stegner writes a lot of non-fiction on the West and Southwest and John Muir writes some — mainly on California….other than that, Edna Ferber’s Giant, a good read but not very realistic, and anything by Larry McMurtry. Texas is a genre all to itself; so is California.
I loved Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford. (Set in New Mexico.) Ditto all the recommendations of Tony Hillerman’s series, These Is My Words, The Bean Trees, and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses!
Desert Solitaire.
Ceremony
The Bean Trees!
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
These is my Words. First in a series of three.
The Tony Hillerman series set on the Navajo reservation makes for interesting and compelling reading–esp the first several.
Tucson Barbara Kingsolver
Lonesome Dove. It’s a classic.
Anything by Tony Hillerman.
Bean Trees and its sequel, Pigs in Heaven.
Any Tony Hillerman. My favorite is Skinwalkers!
Michael mcGarrity’s Kevin Kerney Series. His books are set in New Mexico.
Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier
nice ? The Southwest of where, OP?
Lonesome Dove?
I think this is next on my list.
Terms of Endearment…Larry McMurtry…
Bean trees.
Anything by J A Jance. Books are set in AZ.
Anne Hillerman, Tony’s daughter
Blood Meridian
Great, but grim book…
@Ken no doubt. As were the times.
@Adam yes…I also enjoyed Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynn…it’s non-fiction, but reads like historical fiction…He focuses on the Comanche’s role in the border wars…
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy Turner
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls.
I can’t remember the author 🙁 Maybe someone can help with that. She usually writes about adopting babies. She wrote one book that took place in Galveston and one took place in Austin. I hope we can figure this out–I liked these books!
amanda Eyre Ward is the one I was thinking of.
Another book set in Galveston, which is beginning to be more southeast than southwest: Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson who also wrote Devil in the White City. There’s more death in Isaac’,s Storm but less cruelty than in White City and he gives a fascinating early history of Galveston — things I never knew and I lived there for a short time.
I liked Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.
Oooh. Also, “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian” by Stegner. Harrowing account of John Wesley Powell’s trip down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. Extraordinary book, especially if you’ve floated the river.
Who did it with one arm!
@Martha in a wooden boat! With next to no coffee. AND ONE ARM!
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver and it’s sequel Pigs in Heaven. Two wonderful books.
Sante Fe Dead
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is a Pulitzer winner. Stegner writes a lot of non-fiction on the West and Southwest and John Muir writes some — mainly on California….other than that, Edna Ferber’s Giant, a good read but not very realistic, and anything by Larry McMurtry. Texas is a genre all to itself; so is California.
I️ loved Angle of Repose!!!
I loved Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford. (Set in New Mexico.) Ditto all the recommendations of Tony Hillerman’s series, These Is My Words, The Bean Trees, and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses!
Tony Hillerman . His non-fiction, “the Great Taos Bank Robbery” was a hoot!
And Hillerman’s daughter is continuing the detective series.
The legendary story ~ Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Gray. Century old jargon that takes a bit to get used to but proves proper for the setting.
Desert Solitaire
Death Comes for the Archbishop-Willa Cather
Child Of A Rainless Year by Jane Lindskold