We invite you to be a part of Southwest Books of the Year
Readers across the Southwest LOVE regional literature, be it fiction and mystery, natural history, poetry, history, art, or food. Our corner of the world demands to be written—and read—about.
That’s why Pima County Public Library has published Southwest Books of the Year for more than 4 decades. This publication stands alone as the nation’s only ongoing guide to everything current and contemporary in the literature of our region.
We want you to be a part of it!
Submit review copies of relevant titles for this year’s edition by October 2024. Relevant titles include books set in the Southwest or about the Southwest, published any time between October 2023 – November 2024.
Postmarked by October 2024 and mailed to:
Pima County Public Library
Attn: Literary Arts Program
101 N. Stone Ave.
Tucson AZ 85701
What we're looking for
Southwest Books of the year reviewers are looking for well-written books with popular appeal that are focused on the southwest. Additional criteria may be applied within the given categories, including, but not limited to the following:








Previously Participating Publishers
Abrams Press
Alfred A. Knopf
Algonquin Books
ArcadePublishing
Arte Público Press
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Atmospheric Press
Atria Books
Austin Macauley Publishers
Ballantine Books
Bandit Press
Barefoot Books
BearManor Media
Berkley
Blackstone Publishing
Blue Moon Publishers
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Brash Books
Candlewick Press
Carolrhoda Books
Catapult
Charlesbridge Publishing
CHAX Press
Chelsea Green Publishing
Christy Ottaviano Books
Cinco Puntos Press
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Coffee House Press
Conocimientos Press
Corax Books
Counterpoint Press
Crooked Lane Books
Crown Publishing Group, The
Curiosity Quills Press
Dey Street Books
Dial Books
Doubleday
Ecco
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Feiwel & Friends
Flatiron Books
Flowersong Press
Forge Books
Four Way Books
FSG Originals
Gallery Books
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Grand Canyon Association
Grand Canyon Conservatory
Graphix
Graywolf Press
Greater Tucson Fire Foundation
Grove Atlantic
Harmony Books
Harper
HarperCollins Children's Books
HarperOne
Henry Holt and Company
Holiday House Publishing
Johns Hopkins University Press
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Lerner Publishing Group
Little Brown & Company
LPD Press
Mad Creek Books
Mariner Books
Melville House
Midnight Ink
Minotaur Books
Monacelli Press, The
Mulholland Books
Museum of New Mexico Press
Nan A. Talese
Neal Porter Books
New Directions
New Press, The
Next Level Rebel Press
Penguin Random House
Pen-L Publishing
Poisoned Pen Press
powerHouse Books
Public Affairs Books
Published by the Author
Random House
Random House Children's Books
Rebecca Wilder
Reclmation Press
Red Hen Press
Reverberations Books
Rio Grande Books
Rio Nuevo Publishers
Riverhead Books
Roaring Brook Press
Rowman & Littlefield
Ryland Publishing
Saga Press
Sasquatch Books
Scribner
Second Story Press
Seventh Street Books
Severn House; Main edition
Simon & Schuster
Skyhorse Publishing
Slant Books
Soho Crime
Sourcebook Fire
St. Martin's Press
Sterling Children's Books
TCU Press
Texas A&M University Press
Texas Christian University Press
Texas State Historical Association
Texas Tech University Press
Thiessen Press
This Earth Press
Thrums Books
Tin House
Torrey House Press
Touchstone
Trinity University Press
Twin Feather Publishing
TwoDot
Unbound Edition Press
University of Arizona Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Nevada Press
University of New Mexico Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of North Texas Press
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Texas Press
University of Utah Press
University Press of Colorado
Via Media Publishing Company
Viking Books for Young Readers
Viking
W.W. Norton & Company
William Morrow
Winter Goose Publishing