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

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