The City Different Primer...... By William H. Mee.

If you're moving to Santa Fe or if you have friends that are visiting you need to bone up on Santa Fe history and culture. This is the collector's list of essential books:

Santa Fe Readers' Choices: New Mexico and Southwest Books -- Most popular titles, 1988-1998
(listed here in the order they appear on the shelves of the Southwest Room of the Santa Fe Public Library).

Fiction

Edward Abbey
The Brave Cowboy (1977)
Fool's Progress (1988)
Hayduke Lives! (1989)
Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

Rudolfo A. Anaya
Alburquerque (1992)
Bless Me, Ultima, (1972)
Cuentos Chicanos (1984)
The Heart of Aztlan (1976)
Legend of La Llorona (1984)
Tortuga (1979)

Adolf Bandelier
The Delight Makers (1918)

Irwin Blacker
Taos(1959)

Richard Taylor Bradford
Red Sky at Morning (1968)
So Far from Heaven (1973)

Ana Castillo
So Far from God (1993)

Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Fray Angelico Chavez
The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez (1987)

Gerald Hausman
Stargazer: a Native American inquiry into extraterrestrial phenomena (1988)

Louis L'Amour
The Haunted Mesa (1987)

Oliver La Farge
The Door in the Wall. Stories (1965)
Laughing Boy (1929)
Yellow Sun, Bright Sky (1988)

Laughlin, Ruth
The Wind Leaves No Shadow (1951)

James Magnuson
Ghost Dancing (1989)

Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing (1994)

Larry McMurtry
Anything for Billy (1988)
Dead Man's Walk (1995)

N. Scoff Momaday
Ancient Child (1989)
House Made of Dawn (1968)

John Nichols
The Magic Journey (1978)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1974)
Nirvana Blues (1981)

Jose Ortiz y Pino
Curandero: a cuento (1982)

Ronald B. Querry
The Death of Bernadette Left-Hand (1993)

Orlando Romero
Nambe-- Year One (1976)

Linda Lay Shuler
She Who Remembers (1988)
The Voice of the Eagle (1992)

Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony (1977)

Martin Cruz Smith
Nightwing (1977)

Elizabeth Tallent
Museum Pieces (1985)

Frank Waters
Flight from Fiesta (1986)
The Man Who Killed the Deer (1970)
People of the Valley (1941)
The Woman at Otowi Crossing (1966)

Norman Zollinger
Riders to Cibola (1977)

Mysteries
(Mysteries are interfiled with Fiction in the Southwest Room, but are separated here for easier identification)

Rudolfo A. Anaya
Rio Grande Fail (1996)
Zia Summer (1995)

Cecil Dawkins
Santa Fe Rembrandt (1993)

James D. Doss
The Shaman Sings (1994)

J. F. Freedman
Against the Wind (11991)

Martha Grimes
Rainbow's End (1995)

Tony Hillerman
The Blessing Way (1970)
Coyote Waits (1990)
Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)
The Dark Wind (1982)
The Fallen Man (1996)
The Fly on the Wall (1971)
Ghostway (1985)
The Jim Chee Mysteries (1990)
The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries (1989)
Listening Woman (1978)
People of Darkness (1980)
Sacred Clowns (1993)
Skinwalkers (1987)
Talking God (1989)
A Thief of Time (1988)

Joseph Kanon
Los Alamos (1997)

Sarah Lovett
Dangerous Attachments (1995)

Robert Mayer
The Search (1986)

Michael McGarrity
Mexican Hat (1997)
Tularosa (1996)

Jake Page
The Stolen Gods (1993)
The Deadly Canyon (1994)

Walter Satterthwait
At Ease with the Dead (1990)
A Flower in the Desert (1992)
The Hanged Man (1993)
Wall of Glass (1988)

Richard Martin Stern
Tangled Murders (1989)
Missing Man (1990)
Murder in the Walls (1971)

Judith van Gieson
Hotshots (1996)
Lies that Sind (1993)
North of the Border (1988)
The Other Side of Death (1991)
The Wolf Path (1992)

Stuart Woods
Santa Fe Rules (1992)

Non-Fiction
133.1 Antonio R. Garcez, Adobe Angels: the ghosts of Santa Fe (1992)
271.79 Marta Weigle, Brother of Light, Brothers of Blood: the Penitentes of the Southwest (1976)
333.72 John Nichols, On the Mesa (1986)
333.91 Stanley Crawford, Mayordomo : chronicle of an acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988)
345.025 Marc Simmons, Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: an international incident, 1843 (1987)
346.13 Merri Rudd, Life planning in New Mexico : your guide to state law on... (1997,1992)
364.1523 Rodney Barker, The Broken Circle : a true story of murder and magic in Indian country (1992)
365 Roger Morris, The Devil's Butcher Shop: the New Mexico prison uprising (1983)
398.2 Jose Griego y Maestas, Cuentos : tales from the Hispanic Southwest (1980)
398.2 Joe Hayes, La Llorona = The Weeping Woman: an Hispanic Legend (1987)
398.352 Marc Simmons, Witchcraft in the Southwest; Spanish and Indian supernaturalism (1974)
557.89 Halka Chronic, Roadside Geology of New Mexico (1986)
560 Barry S. Kues, Fossils of New Mexico (1982)
568.19 Ronald P. Ratkovich, Dinosaurs of the Southwest (1976)
581.9 Gail D. Tierney, Roadside Plants of Northern New Mexico (1983)
582.13 William C. Martin, Summer Wildflowers of New Mexico (11986)
599 James S. Findley, Natural History of New Mexican Mammals (1986)
629.1334 Charles Berlitz, The Roswell Incident (1980)

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