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Books Set in Mexico
Fiction and non-fiction books set in or about Mexico.
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How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
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Eileen Truax (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 25,
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Tijuana Straits
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3.80 avg rating — 886 ratings
score: 24,
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Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area: Introduction, Notes, and Classification (American Folklore Society Memoir nº 56) (Spanish Edition)
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 24,
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Days of the Dead (Benjamin January, #7)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 825 ratings
score: 23,
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A Border of Blue: Along the Gulf of Mexico from the Keys to the Yucatan
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 23,
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Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 4,609 ratings
score: 22,
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406 |
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (Volume 41) (California Series in Public Anthropology)
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Ieva Jusionyte (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 22,
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408 |
The Incantation of Frida K.
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3.88 avg rating — 254 ratings
score: 21,
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408 |
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 3, Geology (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte ... Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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Noreen A. Buster (Editor)
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 21,
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1 person voted
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410 |
Spy School Goes South (Spy School, #6)
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Stuart Gibbs (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 8,693 ratings
score: 20,
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410 |
Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico
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David Bowles (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
score: 20,
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Frida
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3.82 avg rating — 4,312 ratings
score: 19,
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412 |
Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico (Cinco Puntos Checkpoint Series)
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3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 19,
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414 |
Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
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3.48 avg rating — 609 ratings
score: 18,
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414 |
Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
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Sam Quinones (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 18,
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416 |
The Twenty-Five Mixtec Cats
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Matthew Gollub (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 17,
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417 |
So Sings the Blue Deer
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score: 16,
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The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico
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3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 16,
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419 |
North of Happy
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Adi Alsaid (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
score: 15,
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Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
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4.17 avg rating — 713 ratings
score: 15,
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Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
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4.02 avg rating — 682 ratings
score: 14,
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The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History
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3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 14,
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Saint Death
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3.76 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
score: 13,
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The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain
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score: 13,
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425 |
The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,774 ratings
score: 12,
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The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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Jeanette Favrot Peterson (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 12,
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Feathered
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3.35 avg rating — 706 ratings
score: 11,
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Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico
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3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 11,
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429 |
Panic in Puerto Vallarta
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Susan Murray (Goodreads Author)
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 10,
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430 |
Basil in Mexico (Basil of Baker Street, #4)
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3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
score: 9,
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The Mexican Mural Renaissance 1920-1925
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score: 9,
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432 |
Santiago's Road Home
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Alexandra Diaz (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 835 ratings
score: 8,
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Pati Jinich Treasures Of The Mexican Table: Classic Recipes, Local Secrets
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4.37 avg rating — 323 ratings
score: 8,
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434 |
Tell Me Something Real
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Calla Devlin (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
score: 7,
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434 |
Aztec Mythology: Gods, Heroes, Legends and Myths of the Aztec Peoples
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Jim Barrow (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 7,
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Aztecs: An Interpretation
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4.11 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 6,
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Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
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3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 6,
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The Aztec Empire: An Interactive History Adventure (Historical Eras)
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Elizabeth Raum (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 5,
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Costalegre
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Courtney Maum (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
score: 5,
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Aztec Thought and Culture (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 67)
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4.11 avg rating — 316 ratings
score: 4,
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A Ballad of Love and Glory
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Reyna Grande (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 2,296 ratings
score: 4,
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
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4.09 avg rating — 4,770 ratings
score: 3,
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442 books ·
173 voters ·
list created January 24th, 2012
by Kelli Robinson (votes) .
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by-country, central-america, chicana, chicano, country, fiction, latin-america, latina, latino, location, mexican, mexico, setting, world
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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
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