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Books Set in Mexico
Fiction and non-fiction books set in or about Mexico.
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Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader
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Estuve en el fin del mundo
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Far from Gringo Land
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2.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)
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Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border
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Nueva historia mínima de México
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Atticus
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Watch for Me on the Mountain
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Los revoltosos y algunas metiches
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Our Own Private Universe
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3.62 avg rating — 3,484 ratings
score: 91,
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The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
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3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
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Buddy Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 4,917 ratings
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Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Stone World
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3.71 avg rating — 126 ratings
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No Peace in La Paz
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3.38 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Antihistoria de México
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4.63 avg rating — 63 ratings
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A Chance to See Egypt
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3.36 avg rating — 66 ratings
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El vampiro de la colonia Roma
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3.91 avg rating — 2,981 ratings
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The Goldsmith's Daughter
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North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States
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4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Senorita Okay
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
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4.09 avg rating — 559 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,184 ratings
score: 89,
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Children of Light
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3.68 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Billie Luna Galofrante
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4.16 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Playing for the Devil's Fire
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Phillippe Diederich (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 176 ratings
score: 89,
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Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas (Fronteras Series, sponsored by Texas A&M International University)
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Knockabout Club in the Tropics: The Adventures of a Party of Young Men in New Mexico, Mexico, and Central America
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The Flower in the Skull
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Kathleen Alcalá (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 74 ratings
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1968: Prohibido prohibir
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The Heart is Not a Size
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Beth Kephart (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Cuckoo/Cucu: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folklorico mexicano
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3.74 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Hilda Holds On
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Stones for Ibarra
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Prisionero del Más Allá
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Summer of the Mariposas
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Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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The Scar: Graphic Reportage from the US-Mexico Border
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Andrea Ferraris (Artist)
3.43 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 87,
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Three Girls in Mexico
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Aura / El libro salvaje / Ninguna eternidad como la mía
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3.96 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The False Years
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4.24 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Crossing
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3.63 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America
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3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Bid for Safety
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Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
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Angela Cervantes (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico
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4.34 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
score: 85,
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Paradais
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Fernanda Melchor (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 17,091 ratings
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Los domados
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3.61 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna (Petra Luna, #1)
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Alda P. Dobbs (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
score: 84,
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The Tale of La Llorona: A Mexican Folktale
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Linda Lowery (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 84,
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Gel azul
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3.97 avg rating — 205 ratings
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La Linea
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3.69 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
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Sparrow Hawk Red
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3.85 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Art Across the Ages: Ancient Mexico
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Diamond Park
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Phillippe Diederich (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 83,
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Los mil años de Pepe Corcueña
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4.41 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Juan Pablo and the Butterflies
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3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Casa Azul: An Encounter with Frida Kahlo
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3.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Perpetual West
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Mesha Maren (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Las victorias inadvertidas
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Faith and the Electric Dogs
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Patrick Jennings (Goodreads Author)
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Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico
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3.54 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Take No Names
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Daniel Nieh (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 516 ratings
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Huracán
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Sofía Segovia (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
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Tiger's Fall
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3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Elenita
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Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico: Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Fiesta in Mexico (Thea Stilton #35)
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4.24 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Tristania
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3.21 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Whiskers, Tails & Wings: Animal Folktales from Mexico
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From What I Remember...
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Truth and Salsa
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Linda Lowery (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
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3.81 avg rating — 2,362 ratings
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Mexico: Biography of Power
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More Than You'll Ever Know
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Katie Gutierrez (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 24,835 ratings
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Pierced by the Sun
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
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Ride a Wild Horse
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Disappeared (Disappeared, #1)
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Francisco X. Stork (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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The Zigzag Way: A Novel by the Booker Prize Finalist Author of Rosarita
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2.96 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Opuestos: Mexican Folk Art Opposites in English and Spanish
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4.02 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Tides of Danger
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La princesa y el guerrero
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We Are Not From Here
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4.48 avg rating — 7,646 ratings
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
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Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
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Napoleon Gomez (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Dicen que me case yo
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Onion Skin
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Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest
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Colin Falconer (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
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Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
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Maggie
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Mi negro pasado (Como agua para chocolate, #3)
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The Border
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4.12 avg rating — 708 ratings
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Holy Mole!: A Folktale from Mexico
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Paradise Valley
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El diario de Tita
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Lotería
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Karla Arenas Valenti (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
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Gift of the Mountains
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Diego's Crossing
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Robert Hough (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
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Miguel León-Portilla (Editor)
4.06 avg rating — 3,952 ratings
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I would like to add a book here, but sadly it isn't on GR yet:A Bid for Safety
Bessie Marchant
"Orphaned Bride travels to Mexico, intending to live with her aunt and uncle. But when she arrives, she discovers that their plantation has been destroyed and they have disappeared."
London ; and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, Frome ; and London : Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd. [not before 1924]
OCLC Number: 1295591987
Bless me Ultima is a New Mexican novel by a New Mexican author
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