Maps

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.

Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract s
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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Terrible Maps: The stupidly funny illustrated gift book perfect for geography lovers
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
The Collectors
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Cartographers
A History of the World in 12 Maps
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
How to Lie with Maps
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
The Atlas of Middle-Earth
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
Captive Prince by C.S. PacatKings Rising by C.S. PacatCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatThe High King's Golden Tongue by Megan DerrLying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov
MM Romance Books with a Map
100 books — 18 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWatership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Long Journey on Foot
312 books — 181 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Fictitious Japan
140 books — 34 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Cavalier by Israh Azizi
Fantasy Books with Maps
228 books — 89 voters

Slave Catching In The Indian Ocean by Philip Howard ColombA Maverick Traveller by Mary Jane WalkerThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Rise and Fall of Nader Shah by Willem M. FloorWorld-Building and the Early Modern Imagination by Allison B. Kavey
Speaking In Foams
101 books — 2 voters


Jonathan Safran Foer
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Zeyn Joukhadar
The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet ...more
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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