- [2024] Ghosts: Journeys into Post-Pop (fame, gender, genre, and the story of how David, Sylvian, Mark Hollis, and Kate Bush reinvented pop music). Tewkesbury, UK: Sonicbond Publishing.
- [2024] 馬雅:被誤解的中美洲文明 / The Maya. Nanjing: Yilin Press. Bilingual edition.
- 2023 The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan. (with Amara Solari, John F. Chuchiak, and Traci Ardren). Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
- 2023 印第安帝国的覆灭. Shanghai: Dook Publishing. Chinese edition of When Montezuma Met Cortés.
- 2023 馬雅:被誤解的中美洲文明. Taipei: Sunrise Press. Chinese edition of The Maya.
- 2022 西班牙征服的七个神话. Shanghai: People’s Publishing House. Chinese edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.
- 2021 The Maya Apocalypse and its Western Roots (with Amara Solari). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- 2021 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Updated Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 2020 The Maya: A Very Short Introduction (with Amara Solari). Oxford: Oxford University Press [also an Audiobook].
- 2020 Entre Mayas y Españoles: Africanos en el Yucatán Colonial. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Revised Spanish edition of The Black Middle.
- 2020 Blue Moves. 33 1/3 series. New York: Bloomsbury.
- 2020 Siedem mitow podboju Ameryki. Warsaw: Bellona. Polish edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.
- 2019 Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town (with Mark Christensen). Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
- 2019 Cuando Moctezuma conoció a Cortés. Mexico City: Taurus. Spanish edition of When Montezuma Met Cortés. Delbolsillo/Penguin edition, 2022.
- 2018 When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History.* New York: Ecco. HarperCollins paperback and audiobook 2019.
- 2018 Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2nd edition of 2011 book.
- 2017 Конкуридаторите. Sofia: Ashur. Bulgarian edition of The Conquistadors.
- 2017 I Sette Mitti Della Conquista Spagnola. Palermo: 21 Editore. Italian edition of Seven Myths.
- 2014 Conquista de Buenas Palabras y de Guerra: una visión indígena de la conquista (with Michel Oudijk). Mexico City: UNAM. Revised edition of La Conquista Indígena.
- 2013 Los Conquistadores (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Spanish edition of The Conquistadors. Reprinted in 2018.
- 2012 The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2011 Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2011 The Riddle of Latin America (with Kris Lane). Boston: Cengage.
- 2011 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (with Amara Solari). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- 2009 The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan.** Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- 2009 Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times (editor, with Ben Vinson III). Diálogos series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- 2008 La Conquista Indígena de Mesoamérica: El caso de Don Gonzalo Mazatzin Moctezuma (with Michel Oudijk). Puebla, Mexico: Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Puebla.
- 2007 Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (with Florine Asselbergs). Latin American Originals #2. University Park: Penn State University Press.
- 2006 Sete mitos da conquista espanhola. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira. Portuguese edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.
- 2005 Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (editor, with Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2005 Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (editor). Diálogos series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- 2005 Los siete mitos de la conquista española. Barcelona: Paidós (Paidós Orígenes #46). Spanish edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.
- 2003 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.*** New York: Oxford University Press. Paperback 2004. Also an Audiobook.
- 2001 Maya Survivalism (ed., with Ueli Hostettler). Markt Schwaben, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein (Acta Mesoamericana No. 12).
- 1998 Maya Conquistador. Boston: Beacon Press. Paperback 1999.
- 1998 Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes (editor, with Susan Kellogg). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
- 1997 The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Paperback ed. 1999.
- 1995 Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s. Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos.