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.)
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World
Shadow Without a Name
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the unknown interior of America
Letters to Felice
Conquest
The Broken Spears
History of the conquest of Mexico
Fighting Angel
Muslim Spain and Portugal
Memory of fire
Aztec Thought and Culture
I, Columbus
Empire
The devastation of the Indies
Trickster Travels
Imperial Spain
First Voyage Around the World by Magellan 1518-1521
Sor Juana
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
Der Steppenwolf
The Canterbury Tales