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
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
Terrible Maps: The stupidly funny illustrated gift book perfect for geography lovers
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
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 Atlas of Middle-Earth
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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
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 — 88 voters
An Anonymous Girl by Greer HendricksMy Eyes Are Black Holes by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dice Man by Luke RhinehartY is for Fidelity by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dumb House by John Burnside
Dark Psychological Fiction
19 books — 11 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
311 books — 184 voters


Terry Pratchett
Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

George Eliot
A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them.
George Eliot, Middlemarch

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