Books Set in Mexico
Novels and stories set in Mexico, mostly historical romance, horror and historical fiction. The most-read are 'Salem’s Lot (1959), Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code (2003) and Mexican Gothic (2020).
This list collects 35 books in this collection by 31 authors, published between 1959 and 2026. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

'Salem’s Lot
Stephen King

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Borderlands/La Frontera
Gloria Anzaldúa

Sweet Savage Love
Rosemary Rogers

Queer
William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris

Adelita
Tomie dePaola

Malinche
Laura Esquivel

Dark Fires:(Brandon-Morgan #2)
Rosemary Rogers

Heart of Thunder
Johanna Lindsey

La Dama Azul
Javier Sierra

The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas

Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Decipher
Stel Pavlou

Satan's Angel
Candace Camp

The death and life of Bobby Z
Don Winslow

Desert Wind
Rochelle Wayne

Macario
B. Traven

Macario
B. Traven

Keeping My Captive by Angela Snyder
Angela Snyder

Curse of the Ancients
Matt de la Peña

Desert Blood
Alicia Gaspar de Alba

The Chupacabra
Jean Flitcroft

It Came From Del Rio
Stephen Graham Jones

In the Alley
D. V. Sadero

Eruption
Roland Smith

Rise of the Jaguar Woman
Lee E. Cart

Black Dog
Rachel Neumeier

Normal Miguel
Erik Orrantia

Born in the Wayeb
Lee E. Cart

History of the maritime closed-cone pines, Alta and Baja California
Daniel I. Axelrod

A Kingdom Beneath the Waves
David Bowles

The pines of Mexico and Central America
Jesse P. Perry
Dictadura De Vapor
Abraham Martínez Azuara

Lone Cubs
Matthew Keefer