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 Maya
Eat the Rich
Civilization
Conquest of the Incas
A visit to Don Otavio
A History of Archaeological Thought
The ancient Maya
A Forest of Kings
Letters from Mexico
History of the conquest of Mexico
The Tainos
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
Intellectuals
Human Accomplishment
A history of Christian missions
Popol Vuh
The Cash Nexus
A short account of the destruction of the Indies
Home Life in Colonial Days
The Skeptical Environmentalist
The Broken Spears
Ambivalent Conquests