Two Graces’ List of 100 Great Books About Taos and the Surrounding Area
Art and Artists
· Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder
· Spirit Ascendant: The Art and Life of Patrocino Barela, Edward Gonzalez and David L. Witt
· Zones of Experience: The Art of Larry Bell, Albuquerque Museum
· Oscar E. Berninghaus: Taos, New Mexico, Gordon. E. Sanders
· Ernest L. Blumenschein, Larson
· The World of Flower Blue: Pop Challee, Margaret Cesa
· Eanger Irving Couse: Image Maker for America, Virginia Couse Leavitt
· The Art and Life of W. Herbert Dunton, Julie Schimmel
· Nicolai Fechin, Mary N. Balcomb
· Fechin: The Builder, Eya Fechin
· R.C. Gorman: A Portrait, Stephen Parks, Photography by Chuck Henningsen
· Victor Higgins, An American Master, Dean A. Porter
· Gene Kloss: American Printmaker: A Raisonne, A. Eugene Sanchez
· Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon, Henry Martin
· Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso, Alice Marriott
· Eva Mirabal: Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity, Lois P. Rudnick & Jonathan Warm Day Coming
· Teepee Smoke: A New Look into the Life of Joseph Henry Sharp, Forrest Fenn
· Paul Strand Southwest, Paul Strand
· Mildred Tolbert: Among the Taos Moderns, Robert Bell and James Mann
· Pablita Velarde: The Story of an American Indian, Mary Caroll Nelson
· Jim Wagner Taos: An American Artist, Stephen Parks
· Remarkable Women of Taos, Elizabeth Cunningham
· Southwestern Pottery Anasazi to Zuni, Allan Hayes & John Blom
· Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church, John L. Kessell, Sandra D'Emilio, and Suzan Campbell
· Taos Artists and Their Patrons, Dean Porter
· Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Edna Robertson and Sarah Nestor
· A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians. Sascha T. Scott
· Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West, S.C. Taggett
· The Taos Society of Artists, Robert White
· Taos Moderns: Art of the New, David L. Witt
· Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin, David L. Witt, Elizabeth J. Cunningham, Michael O’Shaughnessy
Biography and Memoir
· A Life in Full: Millicent Rogers, Arthur Bachrach
· Searching for Beauty: Life of Millicent Rogers, Cherie Burns
· But Time and Change: The Story of Padre Martinez, Fray Angelico Chavez
· Long John Dunn of Taos, Max Evans
· Taos Mosaic: Portrait of a New Mexico Village, Claire Morrill and Laura Gilpin
· Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse, Sharyn Udall
Georgia O’Keeffe
· Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams, Natural Affinities, Barbara Buhler-Lynes
· Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonne, Barbara Buhler-Lynes
· Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico, Barbara Buhler-Lynes
· Remembering Miss O’Keeffe: Stories from Abiquiu, Margaret Wood
Frank Waters
· The Man Who Killed the Deer, Frank Waters
· Masked Gods, Frank Waters
· Mountain Dialogues, Frank Waters
· Of Time and Change, Frank Waters
· People of the Valley, Frank Waters
Literature
· Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
· Bless Me Ultima, Rudolph Anaya
· Indian Stories from the Pueblos, Frank Applegate
· The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin
· Red Sky at Morning, Richard Bradford
· Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
· The House at Otowi Bridge, Peggy Pond Church
· The Hi-Lo Country, Max Evans
· Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail, Louis S. Garrard
· The Painter, Peter Heller (Loosely based on Jim Wagner)
· The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Tony Hillerman
· The Spell of New Mexico, Tony Hillerman
· Leaphorn-Chee Mysteries (Series), Tony Hillerman
· Birds of Sorrow, Tom Ireland
· Laughing Boy, Oliver LaFarge
· The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn, John Nichols
· Milagro Beanfield War, John Nichols
· Howard Moon Deer (Mystery Series), Robert Westbrook
D.H. Lawrence
· Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Poems by D.H. Lawrence
· Mornings in Mexico, D.H. Lawrence
· The Woman Who Rode Away (and other stories), D.H. Lawrence
· Lawrence and Brett: A Friendship, Dorothy Brett
· D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico, Arthur J. Bachrach
· A Poet and Two Painters, Knud Merrild
History
· When Old Trails Were New: The Story of Taos, Blanche C. Grant
· The Delight Makers, Adolph Bandelier
· The Taos Indians, Blanche C Grant
· Centuries of Hands: An Architectural History of St, Francis of Assisi Church, Van Dorn Hooker and Corina Santistevan
· Great River: Rio Grande in North American History, Paul Horgan
· The Place Names of New Mexico, Robert Julyan.
· Taos Indians and the Battle for the Blue Lake, Gordon McCutchan
· Taos Pueblo, Elsie Clews Parsons
· Ladies of the Canyons, Leslie Poling-Kempes
· Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides
· History of Taos, F.R. Bob Romero
· Taos: A Topical History, Corina Santistevan, editor
· The Taos Trappers, David J. Weber
· On the Edge of the Empire: The Taos Hacienda de los Martinez, David J. Weber
Culture
· The Penitente Brotherhood, Michael P. Carroll
· Mayordomo, Stanley Crawford
· Wicked Taos, Ellen Dornan
· New Kingdom of the Saints, Larry Frank
· Tradiciones, Nuevomexicanas Hispano Arts, Montano
· New Mexican Furniture, 1600 – 1940, Lonn Taylor
· New Mexican Tinwork, Coulter and Dixon
· Acequia: Water-sharing, Sanctity, and Place, Syvia Rodriguez
· Built of Earth and Song: Churches of Northern New Mexico, Marie Romero Cash
· Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest, Marta Weigle
Mabel Dodge Luhan
· A History of Having a Great Many Times Not Continued to Be Friends: Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934. Everett, Patricia
· Edge of Taos Desert, Mabel Dodge Luhan
· Winter in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhan
· Mabel Dodge Luhan and Company, Rudnick & Wilson-Powell
· Utopian Vistas, Louise Rudnick
· Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West, Lois P. Rudnick