What to Read After The Broken Spears
Readers who loved The Broken Spears by Miguel León Portilla keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Broken Spears is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Broken Spears
A short account of the destruction of the Indies
Letters from Mexico
Colonial Latin America
Conquest
Mexico
Ambivalent Conquests
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
The Last Days of the Incas
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the unknown interior of America
Popol Vuh
Breaking the Maya code
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
The Columbian exchange
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
Stolen Continents
The Incas (Peoples of America)
Revelaciones
The devastation of the Indies
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Book of the Hopi
Memory of fire
Life of Ma-Ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Sor Juana
Maya Cosmos