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Mentioned when discussing Columbus being stuck in the Doldrums - the hosts reference a memorable sequence in Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era naval novels where characters are stuck in the Doldrums without water

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Explicitly identified as a book written by William Bigelow, a U.S. high school teacher, quoted criticizing children's biographies of Columbus as 'primers on racism and imperialism'

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Explicitly mentioned as an 'overtly Marxist history, very successful, very popular among students' that presents Columbus's legacy as 'conquest, slavery, death'

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Recommended as a book at the end of the episode, described as Fuentes's 'masterpiece and by far his most difficult book' - a counterfactual novel about Philip II where America hasn't been discovered

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Mentioned as another book by Carlos Fuentes that one of the hosts has read

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Mentioned as another book written by Carlos Fuentes

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Mentioned as the inspiration for Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, though noted that Terra Nostra is 'infinitely more readable'