Mexico City · Veracruz
Carlos Fuentes
A Holy Week journey from Mexico City toward Veracruz exposes four travellers' relationships and the histories carried beneath their conversations.
Literary fiction Vietnam · Japan · Cambodia · Portugal · Mexico
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain sets off in search of the perfect meal, a quest that takes him from the streets and kitchens of Vietnam to Japan, Cambodia, Portugal, Mexico and beyond.
Travel writing Mexico
John D. MacDonald
An old friend's murder sends Travis McGee to Mexico, following a gold Aztec idol through a pursuit tangled with betrayal and violence.
Crime & mystery Mexico
Ignacio Bernal
Mexico's vanished civilizations emerge through the changing work of travellers, conquerors and archaeologists who sought to understand their surviving traces.
History Mexico
Gary Jennings
An Aztec man's remembered life carries the reader through the world before Cortés and the upheaval that follows the Spanish arrival.
Literary fiction Mexico City
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico City binds these stories together as unequal lives, historical shadows and unsettling fantasies meet in streets and private rooms.
Short stories Mexico City
Samuel Shellabarger
A young Spaniard joins Cortés's expedition, entering the ambitions and violence surrounding the sixteenth-century capture of Mexico City.
Historical fiction Mexico
Robert Stone
On Mexico's coast, a movie set gathers conflict and intrigue as the people behind the production find their private tensions becoming public.
Literary fiction Florida Keys · Mexico
John D. MacDonald
A fatal houseboat explosion in the Florida Keys draws Travis McGee into a dangerous investigation whose consequences extend far beyond the wreckage.
Crime & mystery Mexico
Aaron J. Elkins
An archaeological dig in Yucatán brings buried scandal and an ancient curse into a mystery where the past refuses to stay safely distant.
Crime & mystery Texas · New Mexico · Mexico
Larry McMurtry
Ride out onto the Texas frontier with the young Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, long before the men of Lonesome Dove have become legends.
Historical fiction Rural Mexico · United States
Duncan Tonatiuh
Two cousins exchange letters between rural Mexico and the United States, discovering both differences and familiar pleasures in the details of daily life.
Children’s literature Mexico
Lewis Shiner
Modern Mexico becomes the landscape of a swift-moving adventure, where uncertainty and danger propel the journey through a restless contemporary world.
Literary fiction Mexico
Alan Riding
History, personalities and everyday institutions provide a wide-ranging portrait of Mexican society and the relationship between neighbours across the border.
History Mexico
Juan Pablo Villalobos
A drug lord's young son describes his luxurious isolation, letting adult violence emerge at the edges of a child's strange and sheltered world.
Literary fiction Oaxaca · Mexico
John D. MacDonald
Travis McGee enters Oaxaca's expatriate world to investigate a murder, finding danger beneath the apparent freedom of lives lived far from home.
Crime & mystery Across Mexico
Ioan Grillo
Grillo follows the networks behind Mexico's drug trade, reporting on the money, corruption and lives within a particular stage of the country's conflict.
Nonfiction Yucatán · Mexico City
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1920s Yucatán, Casiopea releases a Mayan god of death and begins a dangerous journey toward Mexico City and the mythic underworld.
Fantasy Rio Grande · New Mexico, USA · Texas, USA
Paul Horgan
The Rio Grande connects centuries of Indigenous, Spanish, Mexican and American history in an expansive portrait of a contested border river.
History Mexico
Charles Portis
An unruly group of expatriates moves through Mexico, finding murder and adventure amid the unpredictable company of people far from home.
Crime & mystery Denmark · Mexico · Australia · Copenhagen
Jeff Gordinier
Gordinier follows René Redzepi through Denmark, Mexico and Australia in pursuit of new flavours and ideas.
Travel writing Mexico
Jonathan Kandell
Mexico City's changing streets and institutions become the setting for a biography tracing the capital's long political and cultural evolution.
Biography Oaxaca · Mexico
Ross Parmenter
A search through Oaxaca revisits D. H. Lawrence's Mexican years and the encounters that helped shape his writing in the 1920s.
Literary fiction Mexico
Laura Esquivel
On a Mexican ranch, Tita's cooking carries forbidden emotion through meals that unsettle family traditions and turn recipes into a language of longing.
Literary fiction Yucatán · Mexico
Richard and Rosalind W. Perry
Yucatán's colonial churches reveal monasteries, village chapels and vernacular architecture, with routes linking the buildings to their surrounding landscapes.
Nonfiction Mexican countryside · High Place
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A cousin's troubling letter brings Noemí to an isolated Mexican mansion, where family secrets and a decaying mining fortune nourish a gathering horror.
Horror Northern Mexico
Robert Moss
A conspiracy inside the United States government seeks to redraw northern Mexico's political future, turning the border into the terrain of intrigue.
Crime & mystery Mexico
Alice Adams
Alice Adams follows her own curiosity through Mexico, gathering encounters and impressions that reach beyond the familiar guidebook itinerary.
Travel writing Mexico
D.H. Lawrence
Lawrence's essays linger over Indigenous Mexican lives and rituals, bringing the intensity of his observation to unfamiliar customs and landscapes.
Essays Tetlama · Mexico
Jim Conrad
A wandering biologist's adventures around Tetlama find discovery and mishap in the people, creatures and landscapes of central Mexico.
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