There are so many great books on Oaxaca: its history, culture,crafts and tradition. Below is a small sampling of titles. They are listed alphabetically by author.

Anawalt, Patricia Reiff. Indian Clothing before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices University of Oklahoma, 1981
Andrade, Mary J Through the Eyes of the Soul: Day of the Dead in Mexico La Oferta Review Newspaper, Inc. 1999 http://www.dayofthedead.com

Anthony Pagden. Hernan Cortés: Letters from Mexico Yale University, 1986 Auger, Helen. Zapotec Doubleday & Co., 1954 Barbash, Shepard and Rojan, Vicki. Oaxacan Wood Carving: The Magic in the Trees Chronicle Books, 1993 Barnard, Nicolas. Living with Folk Art/Ethnic Styles from Around the World Little, Brown & Co./Thames & Hudson, 1991 Beals, Ralph L. The Peasant Marketing System of Oaxaca, Mexico University of California, Berkeley, 1975 Blanton, Richard E. (Editor) Monte Alban's Hinterland: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Cent & South Pts of the Valley Univ of Michigan Museum, 1982 Brenner, Anita. The Wind that Swept Mexico/the History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 University of Texas Press: Austin, 1989 Brody Esser, Janet. Behind the mask in Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1988 Campbell, Howard. Zapotec Renaissance/Ethnic Politics and Cultural Revolution in Southern Mexico University of New Mexico Press, 1994 Carmichael, Elizabeth and Sayer, Chloe The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of theDead In Mexico British Museum Press / University of Tezas Press, 1991 Chevalier, Francois. Land and Society in colonial Mexico University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963 Cordry, Donald B. Mexican Masks University of Texas Press, Austin, 1980 Clarke, Colin G. Class, Ethnicity, and Community in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca's Peasantries (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series) Oxford University Press; 2001 Cook, Scott and Binford, Leigh. Obliging Need/Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism University of Texas, Austin, 1990

Cordry, Donald B. and Dorothy M.
Mexican Indian Costumes
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1968

Coulter, Lane & Dixon, Maurice, Jr.
New Mexican Tinwork 1840-1940
University of New Mexico Press, 1990

Covarruvbias, Miguel.
Indian Art of Mexico and Central America
Knopf, 1957

Cruz, Antonieta.
La Guía/Artes de Mé, Museos, Galerías y otros espacios de Arte
Artes de México, 1995

Davis, Mary L. and Pack, Greta.
Mexican Jewelry
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1963

De Mente, Boyé Lafayette There's a Word for It in Mexico Passport Books, 1998
D’az del Castillo, Bernal. The True Story of the Conquest of Mexico Doubleday, 1956 Diskin, Mart¡n and Cook, Scott. Markets in Oaxaca The University of Texas, Austin, 1975 Franciso, Jorge. Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico New York, 1953

Espejel, Carlos.
Mexican Folk Ceramics
Editorial Blume, 1975

Mexican Folk Crafts
Editorial Blume, 1978

The Nelson Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1987

Flandreau, Charles Macomb.
Viva México!
Appleton, 1908

Flannery, Kent and Marcus Joyce.
Zapotec Civilization
Thames & Hudson, 1996

Gage, Thomas.
Travels in The New World
University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1958

Giffords, Gloria Fraser.
Mexican Folk Retablos
University of Mew Mexico Press, 1974

The Art of Private Devotion:
Retablo Painting of Mexico (exhibition catalogue):
InterCultura, Fort Worth and the Meadow Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1991

Higgins, Michael James; Coen, Tanya L.
Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, 2000

Hopkins, Barbara.
Oaxaca/Crafts and Sightseeing
Minutiae Mexicana, 1992

Instituto Oaxaqueño de las Culturas, 1994:
Oaxaca's Art and Soul (Arte y Alma de Oaxaca) (exhibition catalog)

Johnson, Denny
Oaxaca Connection
Xlibris Corporation, 2000

Johnson, Irmgard Weitlaner.
Design Motifs on Mexican Indian Textiles (2 Vols.)
Akademische Druck und Verlaganstalt, Graz, 1976

Lechuga, Ruth D. and Sayer, Chloe.
Mask Arts of Mexico
Thames and Hudson, 1994

Leiman Goldemberg, Rose
Adios, Hollywood: My Story by Dick, Dog of Oaxaca As Told to Rose
iUniverse.com, 2000

Leopold, Starker.
Wildlife of Mexico
University of California (Berkeley)

Leslie, Charles M.
Now We Are Civilized: A Study of the World View of the Zapotec Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca
Wayne State University Press, 1960

Lewis, Oscar.
Children of Sanchez
Random House, 1961

Living Traditions/Mexican Popular Arts (exhibition catalog)
University at Albany State University of New York, 1992

Martinez Pealoza, Porfirio.
Popular Arts of Mexico
Editorial Panorama, 1981

Mason, Charles T. and Patricia B.
A Handbook of Mexican Roadside Flora
University of Arizona, Tucson, 1987

Motolinia (Fray Toribio de Benavente).
Motolinia's History of the Indians of New Spain
trans. and ed. by F.B. Steck, Washington, 1951

Monsivéis, Carlos, Fernando del Paso and José Emi Emilio Pacheco.
Belleza y Poesia en el Arte Popular Mexicano
CVS Publications, Queretaro, 1996

Mullen, Robert J.
Dominican Arquitecture in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca
Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1975

Munro, Pamela and Lopez, Felipe H.
San Lucas Quiavini Dictionary: Zapotec, English, Spanish (Vol. I)
UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, 1999

The Architecture and Sculpture of Oaxaca, 1530s-1980s
Arizona State University, Tempe 1995

Norman, James.
In Mexico/Where to Look, How to Buy Mexican Popular Arts and Crafts
Williams Morrow & Company, 1959

Nuttall, Zelia.
The Codex Nuttall: A Picture Manuscript from Ancient Mexico
Dover Publications, 1975

O'Reilly, James and Habegger, Larry.
Travelers' Tales/Mexico
Travelers Tales, Inc., 1995

Palo Alto Cultural Center, 1994:
Myth and Magic/Oaxaca Past and Present (exhibition catalog)

Paddock, John, Editor.
Ancient Oaxaca: Discoveries in Mexican Architecture and History
University of California, Stanford, 1970

Parmenter, Ross.
D.H. Lawrence in Oaxaca:A Quest for the Novelist in Mexico
Hawkshead Book Company

Parmenter, Ross.
Week in Yanhuitlán
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1964

Parsons, Elsie Clews.
Mitla, town of the souls
University of Chicago Press, 1936

Peterson, Roger Tory, and Edward L. Chalif.
Field Guide to Mexican Birds
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973

Pomar, Maria Teresa. El Dia de los Muertos:
The Life of the Dead in Mexican Folk Art (exhibition catalogue)
Fort Worth, 1987

Simpson, Lesley Bird.
Many Mexicos
The University of California Press, Berkeley, 1962

Skeaping, John.
The Big Tree of Mexico
University of Indiana Press, 1953

Spores, Ronald.
The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1984

Taylor, William.
Landlords and Peasants in Colonial Oaxaca
Stanford University Press, 1972

Thomas, Hugh.
Conquest
Hutchinson, London, 1993

Toor, Frances.
A Treasury of Mexican Folkways
New York, 1976

Toussaint, Manuel; Editor, Elizabeth Wilder Weismann.
Colonial Art in Mexico
University of Texas, Austin, 1967

Wauchope, Robert, Editor.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vols. 7 and 8
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1969

Weisbroth, Ericka, and Eric Ellman.
Bicycling Mexico
Hunter, 1990

Weismann, Elizabeth, Wilder.
Art and Time in Mexico
Harper Collins, 1995

Williams, Aubrey. Social, Political and Economic life in Contemporary Oaxaca Vanderbilt University, 1974 Winter, Marcus. Oaxaca/the Archaeological Record. Minutiae Mexicana, 1995 Wright, N. Pelham. A Guide to Mexican Mammals and Reptiles Mexico City: Minutiae Mexicana, 1989
Young, Biloine W. Mexican Odyssey: Our Search for the People's Art Pogo Press, 1996