📚 The Maya

The lowland civilization: jungle cities, the Long Count, hieroglyphs read again — and a people who never disappeared.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mayas 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
	Grandeza y decadencia de los Mayas	John Eric Sidney Thompson	1954	18
	The Maya	Michael D. Coe	1966	17
	Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatan	Diego de Landa	1864	16
	Mexican archæology	Thomas Athol Joyce	1914	16
	Aztec, Inca & Maya (Eyewitness Books)	Elizabeth Baquedano	1993	13
	Maya history and religion	John Eric Sidney Thompson	1970	11
	Atlantis in America	Lewis Spence	1925	9
	Ambivalent conquests	Inga Clendinnen	1987	9
	Aztec & Maya Worlds	Fiona MacDonald	1998	9
	An album of Maya architecture	Tatiana Proskouriakoff	1946	8
	Mexican and Central American mythology	Irene Nicholson	1967	8
	Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago	Augustus Le Plongeon	1886	7
	Representation of deities of the Maya manuscripts	Paul Schellhas	1904	7
	The Maya	Henri Stierlin	1964	7
	The Maya	Michael D. Coe	1993	7
	National Geographic Explore	National Geographic Learning	2014	7
	The Maya civilization	George W. Brainerd	1954	6
	Maya, the riddle and rediscovery of a lost civilization	Charles Gallenkamp	1959	6
	La civilización de los antiguos Mayas	Alberto Ruz Lhuillier	1957	5
	The well of sacrifice	Donald Ediger	1971	5
	Time and reality in the thoughtof the Maya	Miguel León-Portilla	1973	5
	The blood of kings	Linda Schele	1986	5
	Maya cosmos	David A. Freidel	1993	5
	Star Gods of the Maya	Susan Milbrath	1999	5
	Secrets in Stone	Laurie Coulter	2001	5
	The lost chronicles of the Maya kings	David Drew	1999	4
	The Tutankhamun prophecies	Maurice Cotterell	1999	4
	You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!	Rupert Matthews	2007	4
	Yucatan before and after the conquest	Diego de Landa	1937	3
	Art from the Mayans to Disney	Jean Charlot	1939	3

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

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