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 Books I see recommended the most (though you should read the akshistorians posts too for a foundational context):
 
 - Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (and Ross Hassig's other works),
 - Aztec Thought and Culture (note: is dense and may not be palatable too those without a foundational context)
 - Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
 - 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus.
 - Seven myths of the Spanish conquest
 
 Master list: (note, includes north native americans and Andean civilization books too, not just Mesoamerica, unfortunately not organized. Worth noting some of these books are just stuff I saw looked cool and I can';t vouch for their reliability, but most of them (>90% were recommended by somebody who knows their shit):
 
 https://www.amazon.com/Mexico-Spanish-Conquest-Ross-Hassig/dp/0806137932
 At Home with the Aztecs
 https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Symbols-Ancient-Mexico-Maya/dp/0500050686/
 https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ancient-Mesoamerica-Ross-Hassig/dp/0520077342
 https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Warfare-Expansion-Political-Civilization/dp/0806127732
 https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ancient-Mesoamerica-Ross-Hassig/dp/0520077342
 https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Columbian-Literatures-Mexico-Civilization-American/dp/0806119748
 https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Thought-Culture-Civilization-American/dp/0806122951
 https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-American-Poets-John-Curl/dp/1931010218
 https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Culture-Ancient-Americas-Contemporary/dp/0806155701
 https://tlatollotl.tumblr.com/post/170099005741/introduction-to-mesoamerica-reading-material
 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-aztecs-9780199341962?cc
 https://www.amazon.com/Insignia-Rank-Nahua-World-Seventeenth/dp/1607322404/ref=sr_1_1/136-8951594-4837100?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517834213&sr=1-1&keywords=9781607322405
 https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3777420638/hyperallergic-20
 https://www.amazon.com/Arquitectura-Prehispanica-Ignacio-Marquina/dp/B000IBDBT8
 https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Health-Nutrition-Bernard-Montellano/dp/0813515637
 Indian Clothing Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes From the Codices
 http://www.amazon.com/Nahuatl-Written-Examples-Contraversions-Differences/dp/0804744580
 Feathers visions of precolumbian america and ESPECIALLY Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe 1400–1700
 Shipwrecks, by Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
 findd out if there's a good translated, annotated verioon of cortes's letters
 In The Palace of Nezhuacoyotl, Eduardo J. Douglas
 Elizabeth Hill Boone's Stories in Red and Black
 Byland and Pohl's In The Realm of 8 Deer
 Richard Burger's Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization
 Hillforts of the ancient Andes: Colla warfare, society, and landscape by Elizabeth Arkush
 Andean Expressions  by George Lau
 Michael Moseley's The Incas and their ancestors
 Jeffrey Quilter's The Ancient Central Andes
 Mesoamerican Chronology, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Vol. 2, Carrasco, Davíd (Ed.), Oxford 2001.
 Trade, Tribute, and Transportation by Ross Hassig
 Aztec City-States in the Basin of Mexico and the Morelos by Michael E. Smith
 Tariacuri’s Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State by Helen Pollard
 The Essential Codex Mendoza - Edited by Francis F Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt
 Fash, William L. "The sculptural façade of structure 9N-82: Content, form, and significance." The House of the Bacabs, Studies in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology 92 (1989): 41-72.
 Hirth, Kenneth G. 2003. The Altepetl and Urban Structure in Prehispanic Mesoamerica/El Altepetl y la estructura urbana en la Mesoamerica. In El Urbanismo en Mesoamerica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica. Vol. I. pp. 57-84. William T. Sanders, Alba Guadalupe Mastache, and Robert H. Cobean (ed.). Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Pennsylvania State University. México, D.F.
 Palaces of the Ancient New World by Evans and Pillsbury is available online as a pdf for free
 The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations, edited by Kent Flannery and Marcus Joyce.
  Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved, by Marcus Joyce and Kent Flannery.
 Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico, by Arthur Joyce.
 Fash, William L. "The sculptural façade of structure 9N-82: Content, form, and significance." The House of the Bacabs, Studies in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology 92 (1989): 41-72.
 Hirth, Kenneth G. 2003. The Altepetl and Urban Structure in Prehispanic Mesoamerica/El Altepetl y la estructura urbana en la Mesoamerica. In El Urbanismo en Mesoamerica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica. Vol. I. pp. 57-84. William T. Sanders, Alba Guadalupe Mastache, and Robert H. Cobean (ed.). Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Pennsylvania State University. México, D.F.
 http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/40092015/MULTI-SENSOR_3D_DOCUMENTATION_OF_THE_MAY20151117-18316-1ptc6cn.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1489905527&Signature=sKNhXYSLMFDrdIzZvu1U%2BCmKMBE%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DMulti-sensor_3D_documentation_of_the_May.pdf
 http://128.103.33.14/publications/doaks_online_publications/isbn_0-88402-300-1.pdf
 http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-84-Aztlan.pdf
 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024519712257
 Krzysztof Makowski's 2008 article on Andean Urbanism, which is a book chapter in the 2008 Handbook of South American Archaeology edited by Helaine Silverman and Bill Isbell.
 some other sort of volume by Makowski on peru that's in spanish
 ichard Burger's 1992 "Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization".
 https://archive.org/stream/theKingdomofChimorJohnHowlandRowe#page/n0/mode/2up
 Art Joyce’s “Mixtecs, Zapotec, and Chatinos”.
 Ronald Spores and Andrew Balkasnki’s “The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient times to the Present.”  (However, the end seems a bit off place since it is the voice of the senior author trying to play down the archaeology and favor ethnoarchaeology. )
 Jeffrey Blomster’s “After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiations in Oaxaca, Mexico”.
 Kent Flannery’s “The Could People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations”,  (somewhat outdated in light of newer research)
 Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery’s Zapotec Civilization: How urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley”  (somewhat outdated in light of newer research)
 Marcus Winter’s “ Oaxaca: The Archaeological Record”. (somewhat outdated in light of newer research)
 A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Friedel and Schele
 Carrasco and Sessions' Daily Life the Aztecs; and Soustelle's book of the same name
 Brundage's Rain of Darts, but has it's flaws; it sometimes cuts corners or oversells things for dramatic flair.
 gary jenning's aztec (note: is fictional, but fairly damn accurate)
 Tlacaelel Remembered by Susan Schroeder,
              should I get the other books in the The Civilization of the American Indian Series? ask
 Tariacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State by Helen Pollard
 The Toltecs: Until the Fall of Tula by Nigel Davies
 George Cowgill's Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico
 Robert Carmack's The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan.
 Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment
 Greater Mesoamerica: The Art and Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico
 Afandor-Pujol's The Relación de Michoacán and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico.
 t La Arquiología en los Anales del Museo Michoacano by Goytia and Silva
 Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century (note: I added this, wasn't suggested)
 Ida Altman’s book The War for Mexico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia 1524-1550
 Charles Gibson's Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century
 Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South   HAS THE MISSIPIAN ART, BUY 2 TO SCAN, ASK KAMAZOTZ
  Skywatchers by Anthony Aveni
 Warriors & Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride (General Military
 The Postclassic Mesoamerican World Edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan            has comparsons to oold world cultures
 Breaking the Maya Code by Michael Coe,
  Reading the Maya Glyphs by Coe and Mark VanStone,
 Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube,
 Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes", co-edited with Walter Mignolo,
 Their Way of Writing Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America" (co-ed. Gary Urton).,
 "The Darker Side Of the Renaissance"., other stuff by mignolo
 The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya (2006) by Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube
 America's First Cuisines sophie coe
 https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/olmec-art-at-dumbarton-oaks and otther books/files of Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, find more
 The Aztec World, edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Gary M. Feinman (2008).
 Aztecs: an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
 City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
 How the Maya Built Their World. by Elliot Abrams
 Carrasco's Daily Life of the Aztecs and Aguilar-Moreno's Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.
 David Carrasco's City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
 Aztecs: an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen   gets a bit postmodern
 Smith, Mike. 2003. The Aztecs.
 Aztec Warfare: Goals and Battlefield Comportment
 
 
 Not books, but studies/websites i've been reccomdned
 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805201/
 http://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/pitts_piedras_negras_history.pdf
 http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya.html
 https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/cmhi/
 https://decipherment.wordpress.com/
 http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/cbc/index.htm
 http://library.osu.edu/projects/popolwuj/
 http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf
 
 
 Seperate list somebody gave me I haven't gone through yet: https://pastebin.com/pMXL2FsN