What to Read After Letters from Mexico
Readers who loved Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Letters from Mexico 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 Letters from Mexico
A short account of the destruction of the Indies
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
History of the conquest of Mexico
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World
The broken spears
Letters to Felice
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the unknown interior of America
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Shadow Without a Name
Conquest
Trickster travels
Memory of fire
Aztec Thought and Culture
I, Columbus
The devastation of the Indies
Empire
Muslim Spain and Portugal
Imperial Spain
First Voyage Around the World by Magellan 1518-1521
Sor Juana
Fighting Angel
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
Der Steppenwolf
The Canterbury Tales