| Year |
Award |
Book |
Author |
| 2008 | WILLA Literary Awards for Poetry | Raven Eye | Margo Tamez |
| 2008 | William Rockhill Nelson Award, Poetry category | Asylum in the Grasslands | Diane Glancy |
| 2008 | ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Bronze Medal - Essays | The Desert Remembers My Name | Kathleen Alcalá |
| 2008 | Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Gold Medal - Autobiography/Memoir | Crossing the Yard | Richard Shelton |
| 2008 | Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Bronze Medal - West-Mountain, Best Regional Nonfiction | Brave New West | Jim Stiles |
| 2008 | Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Bronze Medal - Multicultural Nonfiction Adult | Stones Witness | Margaret Randall |
| 2008 | International Latino Book Awards, 1st Place - Autobiography/Memoir in English category | The Desert Remembers My Name | Kathleen Alcalá |
| 2008 | International Latino Book Awards, 1st Place - Poetry in English category | The Wind Shifts | Francisco Aragón (editor) |
| 2008 | International Latino Book Awards, 2nd Place - Poetry in English category | A Question of Gravity and Light | Blas Falconer |
| 2008 | International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention - Best History Book in English category | Corridors of Migration | Rodolfo Acuña |
| 2008 | de la Torre Bueno Prize (special citation) | From Quebradita to Duranguense | Sydney Hutchinson |
| 2008 | Arizona Book Awards, Winner (Poetry category) | I Swallow Turquoise for Courage | Hershman John |
| 2008 | Arizona Book Awards, Winner (Political/History category) | Massacre at Camp Grant | Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh |
| 2008 | Arizona Book Awards, Finalist (Poetry category) | The Wind Shifts | Francisco Aragón (editor) |
| 2008 | Arizona Book Awards, Finalist (Regional category) | Crossing the Yard | Richard Shelton |
| 2008 | Arizona Book Awards, Finalist (Nature/Environment category) | Time of Grace | Ken Lamberton |
| 2008 | Notable Book (Memoir category), Eric Hoffer Book Awards | Time of Grace | Ken Lamberton |
| 2008 | HAIL Award (Honoring Alaska's Indigenous Literature | Blonde Indian | Ernestine Hayes |
| 2008 | Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award, sponsored by the Historical Society of New Mexico | Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light | Gloria Fraser Giffords |
| 2008 | Southwest Book Award, sponsored by the Border Regional Library Association | Senator Dennis DeConcini | Dennis DeConcini and Jack L. August, Jr. |
| 2008 | Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine | Big Fleas Have Little Fleas | Elizabeth W. Davidson |
| 2007 | Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing (Honorable Mention) | History Is in the Land | T.J. Ferguson and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh |
| 2007 | "Top Pick" - Southwest Books of the Year | Crossing the Yard | Richard Shelton |
| 2007 | "Top Pick" - Southwest Books of the Year | Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light | Gloria Fraser Giffords |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - Bill Broyles Picks | Zero at the Bone | Erec Toso |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - Bill Broyles Picks | The Ribbon of Green | Robert H. Webb, Stanley A. Leake, and Raymond M. Turner |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - Bill Broyles Picks | The Great Cacti | David Yetman |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - Bill Broyles Picks | Murray Springs | C. Vance Haynes, Jr. and Bruce B. Huckell (eds.) |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - Patricia Etter Picks | I Swallow Turquoise for Courage | Hershman John |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - Margaret Guerrero Picks | The Desert Remembers My Name | Kathleen Alcalá |
| 2007 | Southwest Books of the Year - W. David Laird Picks | Zion Canyon | text by Greer Chesher, photos by Michael Plyler |
| 2007 | Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award | The Secret Powers of Naming | Sara Littlecrow-Russell |
| 2007 | Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Honorable Mention | The Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | Elizabeth Cook-Lynn |
| 2007 | New Mexico Book Awards, Finalist in New Mexico History Book category | Ghost Ranch | Lesley Poling-Kempes |
| 2007 | American Book Award | Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir | Ernestine Hayes |
| 2007 | PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award | Samba Dreamers | Kathleen de Azevedo |
| 2007 | Utah Book Awards, Finalist | Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing | Brooke Williams, photographs by Chris Noble |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Best Book | Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly | Laura Tohe, photographs by Stephen Strom |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Best Poetry Book | Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly | Laura Tohe, photographs by Stephen Strom |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Best Embodying Arizona Book | Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto | Bill Broyles, photographs by Michael P. Berman |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Best Nature/Environment Book | Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto | Bill Broyles, photographs by Michael P. Berman |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Art/Music/Photography Book | Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection | Simon Ortiz |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Honorable Mention, History/Political Book | Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Record of the 1930s | Katherine G. Morrissey and Kirsten Jensen (eds.) |
| 2007 | Arizona Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Reference Book | The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet | Brian Wright-McLeod |
| 2007 | WILLA Literary Awards, Finalist in Poetry | Adobe Odes | Pat Mora |
| 2007 | ASLE Award, Honorable Mention for Best Book of Environmental Creative Writing | The Same River Twice | Michael Burke |
| 2007 | PEN Center USA Literary Award, Finalist in Creative Nonfiction | Blonde Indian | Ernestine Hayes |
| 2007 | PEN Center USA Literary Award, Finalist in Poetry | How Long She'll Last in This World | María Meléndez |
| 2007 | ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Finalist in Poetry | The Secret Powers of Naming | Sara Littlecrow-Russell |
| 2007 | ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Honorable Mention in Short Stories Category | Brides and Sinners in El Chuco | Christine Granados |
| 2007 | International Latino Book Awards, Best Poetry Book in English | Adobe Odes | Pat Mora |
| 2007 | International Latino Book Awards, Best Reference Book in English, 2nd Place | Chicana and Chicano Literature | Charles M. Tatum |
| 2007 | International Latino Book Awards, Best Poetry Book in English, Honorable Mention | How Long She'll Last in This World | María Meléndez |
| 2007 | Independent Publisher Book Awards, Bronze in Poetry | Adobe Odes | Pat Mora |
| 2007 | Independent Publisher Book Awards, Bronze in Poetry | The Secret Powers of Naming | Sara Littlecrow-Russell |
| 2007 | PEN/Beyond Margins Award, finalist | The Secret Powers of Naming | Sara Littlecrow-Russell |
| 2007 | Kiriyama Prize, nonfiction finalist | Blonde Indian | Ernestine Hayes |
| 2007 | Northern California Book Awards, fiction finalist | Samba Dreamers | Kathleen de Azevedo |
| 2007 | Spur Award Finalist for Best Poetry | Adobe Odes | Pat Mora |
| 2007 | Spur Award Finalist for Best Short Fiction | "Inner View" as published in Brides and Sinners in El Chuco | Christine Granados |
| 2007 | Honorable Mention, Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular Culture | Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform | edited by Jane Henrici |
| 2007 | Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine | After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies | edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols |
| 2006 | "Top Pick," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham | Thomas E. Sheridan |
| 2006 | "Top Pick," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto | text by Bill Broyles, photographs by Michael P. Berman |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Amphibians, Reptiles, and Their Habitats at Sabino Canyon | David W. Lazaroff, Philip C. Rosen, and Charles H. Lowe |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation | edited by David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Brides and Sinners in El Chuco | Christine Granados |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Byron Cummings: Dean of Southwest Archaeology | Todd W. Bostwick |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva | Victor Masayesva |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | The Organ Pipe Cactus | David Yetman |
| 2006 | "Notable Books," Southwest Books of the Year, sponsored by Pima County Public Library | Painted Desert: The Land of Wind and Stone | Text by Scott Thybony, photographs by David Edwards |
| 2006 | Southwest Book Award; sponsored by the Border Regional Library Association | Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto | text by Bill Broyles, photographs by Michael P. Berman |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Myers Book Awards; sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights | Mexican Americans and the Politics of Diversity: ¡Querer es poder! | Lisa Magaña |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention for the Elli Köngäs Maranda Prize for outstanding work in women's folklore or feminist folkloristics; sponsored by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society | Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival | Katherine Borland |
| 2006 | Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation 2006 Award Winner | Brides and Sinners in El Chuco | Christine Granados |
| 2006 | Best Books 2006, Finalist in the Multicultural Fiction & Literature category, sponsored by USA Book News | Samba Dreamers | Kathleen de Azevedo |
| 2006 | Whiting Writers' Award, one of ten recipients recognized for being an emerging writer of exceptional talent and promise | Shapeshift | Sherwin Bitsui |
| 2006 | Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence, Best Research in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music, Certificate of Merit | The Encyclopedia of Native Music | Brian Wright-McLeod |
| 2006 | Latino Literary Hall of Fame Award for Best Poetry in English | The Religion of Hands | Ray Gonzalez |
| 2006 | PEN/Beyond Margins Award | Directions to the Beach of the Dead | Richard Blanco |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention in the Regional (West-Mountain) Category, Independent Publisher Regional Book Award | Ghost Ranch | Leslie Poling-Kempes |
| 2006 | Editor's Award for Historical Scholarship from the Sonoma County Historical Society | Lost Laborers in Colonial California | Stephen W. Silliman |
| 2006 | State of New Mexico's 2006 Heritage Preservation Award in the category of Heritage Publication | The Antiquities Act | edited by David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon and Dwight T. Pitcaithley |
| 2005 | American Anthropological Association, Anthropology & the Environment Section, First runner-up Julian Steward Award | Lives of Dust and Water | María Luz Cruz-Torres |
| 2005 | Evans Biography Award | Don't Let the Sun Step Over You | Eva Tulene Watt with Keith H. Basso |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - Art, Music, and Photography: Honorable Mention | Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century: Kin, Community, and Collectors | Ann Lane Hedlund, Ph.D. |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - Best Biography | Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman | Kristie Miller |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - Best Book | The Good Rainbow Road | text by Simon J. Ortiz with illustrations by Michael Lacapa |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - Best Children's Fiction | The Good Rainbow Road | text by Simon J. Ortiz with illustrations by Michael Lacapa |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - Best Gift Book | Lotería | essays and riddles by Ilan Stavans with art by Teresa Villegas |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - History: Honorable Mention | Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southwestern Arizona | collected and edited by Patricia Preciado Martin with photographs by José Galvez |
| 2005 | Glyph Awards - Nature: Honorable Mention | There's a Bobcat in My Backyard: Living with and Enjoying Urban Wildlife | Jonathan Hanson |
| 2005 | James Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America | Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East | T.J. Wilkinson |
| 2005 | Kiriyama Prize - Notable Books: Fiction | On Tuesday, When the Homeless Disappeared | Marcos McPeek Villatoro |
| 2005 | Latino Book Awards - Best Bilingual History Book | Lotería | essays and riddles by Ilan Stavans with art by Teresa Villegas |
| 2005 | Latino Book Awards - Best Poetry Book | On Tuesday, When the Homeless Disappeared | Marcos McPeek Villatoro |
| 2005 | Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Awards Finalist - The Arts | Blanket Weaving in the Southwest | Joe Ben Wheat, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund, Ph.D. |
| 2005 | National Cowboy Museum/Western Heritage Award - Juvenile Book | The Good Rainbow Road | text by Simon J. Ortiz with illustrations by Michael Lacapa |
| 2005 | Oral History Association Book Award | Don't Let the Sun Step Over You | Eva Tulene Watt with Keith H. Basso |
| 2005 | Phi Beta Kappa Sturm Award (Virginia Tech Chapter) | Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico | Joseph L. Scarpaci |
| 2005 | Skipping Stones Honor Award | The Good Rainbow Road | text by Simon J. Ortiz with illustrations by Michael Lacapa |
| 2005 | Southwest Book Award - Border Regional Library Association | Blanket Weaving in the Southwest | Joe Ben Wheat, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund, Ph.D. |
| 2005 | Southwest Books of the Year - Top Pick | Tséyi'/Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly | Laura Tohe, photographs by Stephen E. Strom |
| 2005 | WILLA Literary Award for Nonfiction – Women Writing the West | Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman | Kristie Miller |
| 2004 | Archaeology Book Award 2004 - Society for Women | Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East | T.J. Wilkinson |
| 2004 | Arizona Press Women: First Place - Non-fiction History Book | Victory & Beyond (Chapter 10 of Arizona Goes to War) | Carol Osman Brown |
| 2004 | Choice Magazine: Outstanding Academic Title | Smokechasing | Stephen Pyne |
| 2004 | Harry Chapin Media Awards - Finalist | Waiting for Rain | Nicholas Arons |
| 2004 | Latin American Studies Association Outstanding Book Award (2002-2004) | Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931 | Susie S. Porter |
| 2004 | Latino Literary Awards - Best Biography | Memories of a Hyphenated Man | Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Urueta |
| 2004 | Latino Literary Awards - Best Poetry Book | Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, & My Mother | Rita Maria Magdaleno |
| 2004 | Ohioana Library Association Book Award - Finalist | Home Movies of Narcissus | Rane Arroyo |
| 2004 | Oklahoma Book Award - Finalist in Poetry | The Shadow's Horse | Diane Glancy |
| 2004 | Southwest Books of the Year | Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman | Kristie Miller |
| 2004 | Southwest Books of the Year - Best Reading of the Year | Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman | Kristie Miller |
| 2004 | Southwest Books of the Year - Patricia Etter Picks | After the Fire | J.A. Jance |
| 2004 | Southwest Books of the Year - Patricia Etter Picks | Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975 | Eva Tulene Watt with Keith Basso |
| 2004 | Southwest Books of the Year - Richard Quartaroli Picks | Changing River: Time, Culture, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Grand Canyon | Helen C. Fairly |
| 2004 | Southwest Books of the Year - Steve Phillips Picks | Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona | collected and edited by Patricia Preciado Martin with photographs by José Galvez |
| 2004 | Spur Award Finalist - Best Western Non-fiction: Biography | Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman | Kristie Miller |
| 2004 | Spur Award Finalist - Non-fiction: Contemporary | Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent | Gary L. Stuart |
| 2004 | Walking Rain, Inc. - Southwest Book Views Best Reading of the Year | Lalo: My Life and Music | Lalo Guerrero and Sherilyn Meece-Mentes |
| 2004 | Walking Rain, Inc. - Southwest Book Views Best Reading of the Year | Landscapes of the Spirits: Hohokam Rock Art at South Mountain | Todd Bostwick, Ph.D. |
| 2004 | Walking Rain, Inc. - Southwest Book Views Best Reading of the Year | The Lessening Stream: An Environmental History of the Santa Cruz River | Michael F. Logan |
| 2004 | Walking Rain, Inc. - Southwest Book Views Best Reading of the Year | The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape | Ray Gonzalez |
| 2003 | Arrell Gibson Award - Lifetime Achievement: Oklahoma Book Awards | Joy Harjo | author of Secrets From the Center of the World |
| 2003 | BABRA Poetry Award – Finalist: Bay Area Book Reviewer's Association | Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler | Juan Felipe Herrera |
| 2003 | Best of the Best University Press Books Selected for High School Libraries: Michigan Association for Media in Education | Chicano Popular Culture | Charles Tatum |
| 2003 | Best of the Best University Press Books Selected for High School Libraries: Michigan Association for Media in Education | Gorillas Among Us | Dawn Prince-Hughes |
| 2003 | Best of the Best University Press Books Selected for High School Libraries: Michigan Association for Media in Education | Tunnel Kids | Lawrence Taylor and Maeve Hickey |
| 2003 | Best Research in Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music - Finalist: Association for Recorded Sound Collections | Lalo: My Life and Music | Lalo Guerrero and Sherilyn Meece-Mentes |
| 2003 | Caroline Bancroft Prize - Finalist: Denver Public Library | The Politics of Western Water | Steven Sturgeon |
| 2003 | Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award - Outstanding Publication: Historical Society of New Mexico | Science in the American Southwest | George E. Webb |
| 2003 | Minnesota Book Award - Best Book of Non-fiction: Finalist | The Underground Heart | Ray Gonzalez |
| 2003 | 100 Best for the 100th Issue: Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities | The Desert Smells Like Rain | Gary Paul Nabhan |
| 2003 | 100 Best for the 100th Issue: Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities |
