Two Graces’ List of 50 Great Books About Taos and the Surrounding Area

  • Winter in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhan

  • Edge of Taos Desert, Mabel Dodge Luhan

  • Mabel Dodge Luhan and Company, Rudnick & Wilson-Powell

  • Utopian Vistas, Louise Rudnick

  • The Man Who Killed the Deer, Frank Waters

  • Of Time and Change, Frank Waters

  • Masked Gods, Frank Waters

  • Mountain Dialogues, Frank Waters

  • Birds of Sorrow, Tom Ireland

  • Midnight at the Camposanto, Mari Ulmer

  • Howard Moon Deer (Mystery Series), Robert Westbrook

  • Leaphorn-Chee Mysteries (Series), Tony Hillerman

  • The Painter, Peter Heller

  • Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse, Sharyn Udall

  • The Last Beautful Days of Autumn, John Nichols

  • Milagro Beanfield War, Joh Nichols

  • Mayordomo, Stanley Crawford

  • Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West, S.C. Taggett

  • Taos Artists and Their Patrons, Dean Porter

  • Jim Wagner Taos, Stephen Parks

  • Paul Strand Southwest, Aperture (Publisher)

  • Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Ansel Adams
    and Mary Street Alinder

  • Great Taos Bank Robbery, Tony Hillerman

  • Wah To Yah and the Taos Trail, Lewis Garrard

  • Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie, Iris Keltz

  • Remarkable Women of Taos, Elizabeth Cunningham

  • Taos Mosaic, Claire Morril and Laura Gilpin

  • Taos, A Topical History, Corina Santistevan

  • Miss O’Keeffe, Christine Taylor Patten

  • Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe

  • The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, Jan Garden Castro

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop, Will Cather

  • House at Otowi Bridge, Peggy Pond Church

  • Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso, Alice Marriott

  • The Woman Who Rode Away, DH Lawrence

  • Birds, Beasts & Flowers, DH Lawrence

  • Mornings in Mexico, HD Lawrence

  • Lawrence and Brett, Dorothy Brett

  • DH Lawrence in New Mexico, Art Bachrach

  • Taos and Santa Fe: The Artist’s Environment, Van Deren Coke

  • Taos Pueblo, Elsie Clews Parsons

  • Laughing Boy, Oliver LaFarge

  • Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

  • New Mexico Place Names, TM Pearce

  • The Great River, Paul Horgan

  • Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

  • Santa Fe and Taos Colonies, AM Gibson

  • The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin

  • Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church: Essays, Sandra D’Emilio 

  • Built of Earth and Song, Marie Romero Cash