📚 The Aztecs

The people of the eagle and the cactus city: Tenochtitlan, tribute, sacrifice, and the Spanish verdict on all three.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject aztecs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	History of the conquest of Mexico	William Hickling Prescott	1843	42
	Aztecs	Inga Clendinnen	1991	13
	Aztec, Inca & Maya (Eyewitness Books)	Elizabeth Baquedano	1993	13
	Hombre-dios	Alfredo López Austin	1973	11
	Avoid Becoming an Aztec Sacrifice!	Fiona MacDonald	2000	11
	What did the Aztecs do for me?	Elizabeth Raum	2010	11
	Aztecs	Fiona MacDonald	1999	10
	Monarquía indiana	Torquemada, Juan de	1723	9
	Los antiguos mexicanos	Miguel León Portilla	1961	9
	The magic and mysteries of Mexico	Lewis Spence	1923	8
	Aztecs	Michael E. Smith	2008	8
	Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme	Diego Durán	1867	7
	Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras	Antonio de León y Gama	1792	6
	The Aztec god and other dramas	George Lansing Raymond	1900	6
	Lord of the dawn	Tony Shearer	1970	6
	Quetzalcoatl and the irony of empire	David Carrasco	1982	6
	Musicians of the sun	Gerald McDermott	1988	6
	Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America	Pedro Velasquez	1850	5
	The Aztecs	Biart, Lucien	1887	5
	La civilización azteca	George Clapp Vaillant	1944	5
	The Aztecs	Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen	1958	5
	The Aztecs	Nigel Davies	1973	5
	The Aztecs	Richard F. Townsend	1992	5
	Aztecs	Anita Ganeri	1999	4
	La religión de los aztecas	Alfonso Caso	1936	3
	Aztec Art	Esther Pasztory	1983	3
	Choose Your Own Adventure - Secret of the Sun God	Andrea Packard	1987	3
	The Aztecs	Tim Wood	1992	3
	Aztec Century	Christopher Evans	1993	3
	La religión mexica	Rafael Tena	1993	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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