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Need a good book or two set in the Southwest.

Need a good book or two set in the Southwest.

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Kai

Desert Solitaire.

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Duncan

Ceremony

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Annie

The Bean Trees!

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Vicki

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

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Carole

These is my Words. First in a series of three.

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Susan

The Tony Hillerman series set on the Navajo reservation makes for interesting and compelling reading–esp the first several.

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Sara

Tucson Barbara Kingsolver

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Leslie

Lonesome Dove. It’s a classic.

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Laura

Anything by Tony Hillerman.

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Nancy

Bean Trees and its sequel, Pigs in Heaven.

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Sandra

Any Tony Hillerman. My favorite is Skinwalkers!

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Jennifer

Michael mcGarrity’s Kevin Kerney Series. His books are set in New Mexico.

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Viv

Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier

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Stacey

nice ? The Southwest of where, OP?

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Lisa

Lonesome Dove?

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Katina

I think this is next on my list.

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Ken

Terms of Endearment…Larry McMurtry…

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Annie

Bean trees.

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Stephanie

Anything by J A Jance. Books are set in AZ.

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Jean

Anne Hillerman, Tony’s daughter

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Adam

Blood Meridian

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Ken

Great, but grim book…

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Adam

@Ken no doubt. As were the times.

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Ken

@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…

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Nicole

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

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Beckie

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy Turner

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Nood

Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls.

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Kathy

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!

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Kathy

amanda Eyre Ward is the one I was thinking of.

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Louisa

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.

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Stacey

I liked Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.

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Kai

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.

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Martha

Who did it with one arm!

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Kai

@Martha in a wooden boat! With next to no coffee. AND ONE ARM!

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Pamela

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver and it’s sequel Pigs in Heaven. Two wonderful books.

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Vicki

Sante Fe Dead

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Louisa

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.

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Vicki

I️ loved Angle of Repose!!!

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Laura

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!

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Martha

Tony Hillerman . His non-fiction, “the Great Taos Bank Robbery” was a hoot!

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Linda

And Hillerman’s daughter is continuing the detective series.

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Andy

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.

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Amy

Desert Solitaire

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Michelle

Death Comes for the Archbishop-Willa Cather

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Maryalis

Child Of A Rainless Year by Jane Lindskold

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