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  1. Books I see recommended the most (though you should read the akshistorians posts too in the other pastebin for a foundational context):
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  3. - Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (and Ross Hassig's other works),
  4. - Aztec Thought and Culture (note: is dense and may not be palatable too those without a foundational context)
  5. - Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
  6. - 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus.
  7. - Seven myths of the Spanish conquest
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  9. Askhistorian's booklist: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/americas/latinamerica#wiki_pre-columbian
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  11. 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)):
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  13. https://www.amazon.com/Mexico-Spanish-Conquest-Ross-Hassig/dp/0806137932
  14. At Home with the Aztecs
  15. https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Symbols-Ancient-Mexico-Maya/dp/0500050686/
  16. https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ancient-Mesoamerica-Ross-Hassig/dp/0520077342
  17. https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Warfare-Expansion-Political-Civilization/dp/0806127732
  18. https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ancient-Mesoamerica-Ross-Hassig/dp/0520077342
  19. https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Columbian-Literatures-Mexico-Civilization-American/dp/0806119748
  20. https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Thought-Culture-Civilization-American/dp/0806122951
  21. https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-American-Poets-John-Curl/dp/1931010218
  22. https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Culture-Ancient-Americas-Contemporary/dp/0806155701
  23. https://tlatollotl.tumblr.com/post/170099005741/introduction-to-mesoamerica-reading-material
  24. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-aztecs-9780199341962?cc
  25. 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
  26. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3777420638/hyperallergic-20
  27. https://www.amazon.com/Arquitectura-Prehispanica-Ignacio-Marquina/dp/B000IBDBT8
  28. https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Health-Nutrition-Bernard-Montellano/dp/0813515637
  29. Indian Clothing Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes From the Codices
  30. http://www.amazon.com/Nahuatl-Written-Examples-Contraversions-Differences/dp/0804744580
  31. Feathers visions of precolumbian america and ESPECIALLY Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe 1400–1700
  32. Aztec Imperial Strategies - Mary G. Hodges
  33. Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm
  34. Shipwrecks, by Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
  35. In The Palace of Nezhuacoyotl, Eduardo J. Douglas
  36. Jonsoo Lee's The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics
  37. Elizabeth Hill Boone's Stories in Red and Black
  38. Byland and Pohl's In The Realm of 8 Deer
  39. Richard Burger's Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization
  40. The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan
  41. Hillforts of the ancient Andes: Colla warfare, society, and landscape by Elizabeth Arkush
  42. Andean Expressions by George Lau
  43. Michael Moseley's The Incas and their ancestors
  44. Jeffrey Quilter's The Ancient Central Andes
  45. Mesoamerican Chronology, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Vol. 2, Carrasco, Davíd (Ed.), Oxford 2001.
  46. Trade, Tribute, and Transportation by Ross Hassig
  47. Aztec City-States in the Basin of Mexico and the Morelos by Michael E. Smith
  48. Tariacuri’s Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State by Helen Pollard
  49. The Essential Codex Mendoza - Edited by Francis F Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. Palaces of the Ancient New World by Evans and Pillsbury is available online as a pdf for free
  53. The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations, edited by Kent Flannery and Marcus Joyce.
  54. Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved, by Marcus Joyce and Kent Flannery.
  55. Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico, by Arthur Joyce.
  56. 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.
  57. 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.
  58. 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
  59. http://128.103.33.14/publications/doaks_online_publications/isbn_0-88402-300-1.pdf
  60. http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-84-Aztlan.pdf
  61. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024519712257
  62. 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.
  63. some other sort of volume by Makowski on peru that's in spanish
  64. Richard Burger's 1992 "Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization".
  65. https://archive.org/stream/theKingdomofChimorJohnHowlandRowe#page/n0/mode/2up
  66. Art Joyce’s “Mixtecs, Zapotec, and Chatinos”.
  67. Annals of Native America. How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
  68. Annals Of His Time. Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin
  69. 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. )
  70. Jeffrey Blomster’s “After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiations in Oaxaca, Mexico”.
  71. Kent Flannery’s “The Could People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations”, (somewhat outdated in light of newer research)
  72. Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery’s Zapotec Civilization: How urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley” (somewhat outdated in light of newer research)
  73. Marcus Winter’s “ Oaxaca: The Archaeological Record”. (somewhat outdated in light of newer research)
  74. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Friedel and Schele
  75. Carrasco and Sessions' Daily Life the Aztecs; and Soustelle's book of the same name
  76. Brundage's A Rain of Darts: The Mexica Aztecs, but has it's flaws; it sometimes cuts corners or oversells things for dramatic flair.
  77. gary jenning's aztec (note: is fictional, but fairly damn accurate)
  78. Tlacaelel Remembered by Susan Schroeder,
  79. should I get the other books in the The Civilization of the American Indian Series? ask
  80. Tariacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State by Helen Pollard
  81. The Toltecs: Until the Fall of Tula by Nigel Davies
  82. George Cowgill's Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico
  83. Robert Carmack's The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan.
  84. Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment
  85. Greater Mesoamerica: The Art and Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico
  86. Afandor-Pujol's The Relación de Michoacán and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico.
  87. t La Arquiología en los Anales del Museo Michoacano by Goytia and Silva
  88. Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century (note: I added this, wasn't suggested)
  89. Ida Altman’s book The War for Mexico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia 1524-1550
  90. Charles Gibson's Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century
  91. Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South HAS THE MISSIPIAN ART, BUY 2 TO SCAN, ASK KAMAZOTZ
  92. Skywatchers by Anthony Aveni
  93. Warriors & Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride (General Military
  94. The Postclassic Mesoamerican World Edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan has comparsons to oold world cultures
  95. Breaking the Maya Code by Michael Coe,
  96. Reading the Maya Glyphs by Coe and Mark VanStone,
  97. Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube,
  98. Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes", co-edited with Walter Mignolo,
  99. Their Way of Writing Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America" (co-ed. Gary Urton).,
  100. "The Darker Side Of the Renaissance"., other stuff by mignolo
  101. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya (2006) by Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube
  102. America's First Cuisines sophie coe
  103. 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
  104. The Aztec World, edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Gary M. Feinman (2008).
  105. Aztecs: an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
  106. City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
  107. How the Maya Built Their World. by Elliot Abrams
  108. Carrasco's Daily Life of the Aztecs and Aguilar-Moreno's Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.
  109. David Carrasco's City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
  110. Aztecs: an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen gets a bit postmodern
  111. Smith, Mike. 2003. The Aztecs.
  112. Richard F. Townsend's The Aztecs
  113. Aztec Warfare: Goals and Battlefield Comportment
  114. Annals of Native America. How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
  115. Annals Of His Time. Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin
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  119. Not books, but studies/websites i've been reccomended:
  120. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805201/
  121. http://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/pitts_piedras_negras_history.pdf
  122. http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya.html
  123. https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/cmhi/
  124. https://decipherment.wordpress.com/
  125. http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/cbc/index.htm
  126. http://library.osu.edu/projects/popolwuj/
  127. http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf
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  130. Seperate list somebody gave me I haven't gone through yet: https://pastebin.com/pMXL2FsN
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