Books like Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings

David Grann’s investigative narrative unravels the mystery of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s 1925 disappearance while he sought the legendary Lost City of Z beneath the Amazon’s dense jungle.

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. "I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold." --Hernan CortesIt was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. Only one would survive the encounter. In 1519, Hernan Cortes arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable--and tragic--aspects of this unforgettable story of conquest.In Tenochtitlan, the famed City of Dreams, Cortes met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Cortes defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astonishing military campaigns ever waged. Sometimes outnumbered in battle thousands-to-one, Cortes repeatedly beat seemingly impossible odds. Buddy Levy meticulously researches the mix of cunning, courage, brutality, superstition, and finally disease that enabled Cortes and his men to survive.Conquistador is the story of a lost kingdom--a complex and sophisticated civilization where floating gardens, immense wealth, and reverence for art stood side by side with bloodstained temples and gruesome rites of human sacrifice. It's the story of Montezuma--proud, spiritual, enigmatic, and doomed to misunderstand the stranger he thought a god. Epic in scope, as entertaining as it is enlightening, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.From the Hardcover edition.

Fargo archaeologists uncover a towering Mayan manuscript in Mexico, revealing astonishing truths about the Maya, their cities, and humanity—propelling them into a perilous quest as powerful forces seek the secrets.

**The White Rose** is a novel by B. Traven, first published in 1929. Originally published in German by *Münchener Post*, the first English translation appeared in 1979. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Rose_(Traven_novel)))

Robert J. Sharer's definitive survey of Maya antiquities, anthropology, and archaeology, offering a concise synthesis of chronological and geographic variation within the Maya cultural tradition across Central America.

An account of the New World's greatest ancient civilization, the Maya.

Set in Aztec Mexico, the novel follows Yaotl, a chief minister’s slave, who is tasked by Emperor Montezuma to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the emperor’s soothsayers.

Joe, Fred, and Sam are whisked by a mystical book to the main ring-ball court of Chichin Itza in 1000 A.D., where they must compete for their lives against a cheating Mayan high priest.