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