What to Read After Conquest
Readers who loved Conquest by Hugh Thomas keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Conquest 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 Conquest
Conquistador
The Last Days of the Incas
The Skeptical Environmentalist
Intellectuals
A forest of kings
Ambivalent conquests
Home life in colonial days
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
The cash nexus
Human Accomplishment
Conquest of the Incas
Civilization
A short account of the destruction of the Indies
Eat the Rich
The Tainos
History of the conquest of Mexico
The Maya
A visit to Don Otavio
The ancient Maya
Letters from Mexico
A History of Archaeological Thought
A history of Christian missions
The broken spears
The Lessons of History