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Books Set in Mexico
Fiction and non-fiction books set in or about Mexico.
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Send More Idiots
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3.74 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Prayers for the Stolen
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Jennifer Clement (Goodreads Author)
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The Highlander (The Rise of the Aztecs, #1)
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Zoe Saadia (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 989 ratings
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 420,658 ratings
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The Pearl
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 141,746 ratings
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Houlihan's Wake and Other Fragments of Mexico
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Bryan Murphy (Goodreads Author)
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Los señores del narco
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4.04 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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Obsidian Puma (The Aztec Chronicles #1)
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Zoe Saadia (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 893,
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If I Die in Juárez (Camino del Sol)
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4.16 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Pedro Páramo
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4.06 avg rating — 94,196 ratings
score: 873,
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El traidor: El diario secreto del hijo del Mayo
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4.26 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
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Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back: English/ Spanish
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Janet Sternburg (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 75,357 ratings
score: 671,
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The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1)
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Zoe Saadia (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 353 ratings
score: 593,
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On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
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4.03 avg rating — 2,991 ratings
score: 574,
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Lluvia de Oro
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4.50 avg rating — 8,256 ratings
score: 559,
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The Hummingbird's Daughter
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Luis Alberto Urrea (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14,322 ratings
score: 556,
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Cliff Diver (Emilia Cruz Mysteries #1)
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Carmen Amato (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 822 ratings
score: 496,
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The Murmur of Bees
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Sofía Segovia (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 73,274 ratings
score: 493,
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Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan
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Rosy Hugener (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 145 ratings
score: 492,
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Bless Me, Ultima
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3.82 avg rating — 36,806 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 230,091 ratings
score: 476,
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Esperanza Rising
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4.04 avg rating — 111,931 ratings
score: 473,
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Las batallas en el desierto
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4.13 avg rating — 29,925 ratings
score: 462,
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Dirty Angels (Dirty Angels, #1)
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Karina Halle (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 9,120 ratings
score: 396,
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Caramelo
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3.93 avg rating — 13,019 ratings
score: 392,
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The Old Gringo
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3.53 avg rating — 3,850 ratings
score: 381,
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American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 664,328 ratings
score: 362,
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4.99 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 359,
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Chapultepec
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3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 352,
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Gone For Soldiers
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4.16 avg rating — 6,224 ratings
score: 351,
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Los de abajo
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3.64 avg rating — 10,410 ratings
score: 346,
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Tristessa
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3.65 avg rating — 6,792 ratings
score: 299,
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The City of Palaces
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Michael Nava (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 307 ratings
score: 299,
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Mayan Blood
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Justin Swapp (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 297,
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Aura
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3.82 avg rating — 41,461 ratings
score: 296,
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#MexicanRevolution
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4.97 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 294,
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#drug 140
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4.97 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 293,
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#drug 142
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 292,
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#Drug (Parallel Universe List Book 141)
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4.92 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 24,452 ratings
score: 289,
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Legends of the Fall
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4.05 avg rating — 12,867 ratings
score: 288,
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Mexico Wall 132 (edition française)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 284,
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The Lost Ones
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Michaela MacColl (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 283,
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The Hacienda
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Isabel Cañas (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 53,716 ratings
score: 283,
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Mexico Wall 130 (Arabic Edition)
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4.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 281,
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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4.01 avg rating — 80,647 ratings
score: 279,
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mexico wall 132
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Power and the Glory
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3.98 avg rating — 42,829 ratings
score: 277,
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What the Moon Saw
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Laura Resau (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
score: 264,
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El llano en llamas
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4.20 avg rating — 25,252 ratings
score: 259,
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Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
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4.13 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
score: 240,
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The Sacred Calendar
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Ralph-Michael Chiaia (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 200,
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Journey Into Mexico: Graphic Novel - The Revenge of Supay
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4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 200,
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Dreams of the Centaur
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4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 199,
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Dos crímenes
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4.23 avg rating — 4,135 ratings
score: 199,
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Glyphic
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Ralph-Michael Chiaia (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 198,
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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
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3.95 avg rating — 399 ratings
score: 198,
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Los detectives salvajes
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4.17 avg rating — 50,772 ratings
score: 197,
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Under the Volcano
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3.76 avg rating — 26,486 ratings
score: 197,
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Untamed Shore
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 4,922 ratings
score: 196,
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Aztec (Aztec, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 20,298 ratings
score: 195,
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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4.33 avg rating — 13,285 ratings
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The Night of the Iguana and Other Stories
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3.88 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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3.86 avg rating — 11,550 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.16 avg rating — 208,107 ratings
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The Transmigration of Bodies
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3.68 avg rating — 3,090 ratings
score: 190,
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
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Meg Medina (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 986 ratings
score: 186,
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Las Revoltosas
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3.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Lightning Queen
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Laura Resau (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,676 ratings
score: 179,
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A Place Where the Sea Remembers
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3.64 avg rating — 984 ratings
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All the Stars Denied
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Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 390 ratings
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
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3.98 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
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Michael Hogan (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Plumed Serpent
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Molly Malone and the San Patricios
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Michael Hogan (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Black Pearl
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Arts and Crafts of Mexico
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Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
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Alfredo Corchado (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Y Tu Mama Tambien: A Screenplay
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Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
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I Live Here
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La princesa oculta (Arabarux, #1)
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Made in Acapulco
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Carmen Amato (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Crónicas mexicanas... y alguna otra más (Crónicas de Cintia, #1)
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Cintia Ana Morrow (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Respites of Power (Soul Alliance, #1)
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Charles Streams (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Safe & Sound
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Danielle Singleton (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree: Stories from Ixcotel State Prison
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Mary Ellen Sanger (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Silencer (Nick Stone, #15)
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A Visit to Don Otavio
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Genetically Altered (Genetically Modified, #1)
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Tracie Molton (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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I Love Baja!: Pursuing the Dream of Living in Mexico
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Mikel Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Skull Duggery (Gideon Oliver, #16)
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Trip Through Your Wires
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Sarah Layden (Goodreads Author)
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My Memoirs
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Con la luna de testigo
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list created January 24th, 2012
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There's a lot of promotional author spam on this list. :(
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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