09 - A book with a map

[Sara]

Sneak peek #7 - a book with a map

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Tell us some great books that contain maps!

[poshpenny]

Yay! I love maps!

Here's a start:

Listopias:
Fantasy Books with Maps
Oh, the Books! Bookish guide: Books About Maps
Fiction with Map Covers

[poshpenny]

I really enjoyed The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

After I scarf my breakfast I'll get linky

[Gina]

Very excited about this category! My love of fantasy as a child was definitely improved by the maps on the front covers.

The Map Thief by Michael Blanding is a nonfiction book about a guy who stole A TON of very valuable maps, sometimes by cutting them out of books at libraries like the Yale Beinecke Library with a razor blade. I couldn't get all the way through it (some of the history of mapmaking is unfortunately presented in a pretty dry way) but maybe it will be the book for you!

Recently read Gingerbread by Robert Dinsdale for this year's (2019) challenge, it has a map on the front and back inside covers. It was a bit tricky to get my hands on, though— had to order through AbeBooks and I believe it got shipped to me (in New York) from the UK.

[Heather]

None of the books on my physical TBR have maps, but I used Amazon's look inside feature to confirm that a few books on my virtual TBR have maps. Maybe I'll take my TBR to the library one day this week and flip through the books. I have a few options to start with, though.

The Wolf in the Whale by Jordana Max Brodsky
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

[Alicia]

I absolutely loved The Map of Salt and Stars

Going through my books, I found Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I and Between Shades of Gray

[poshpenny]

Gina wrote: "Recently read Gingerbread by Robert Dinsdale for this year's (2019) challenge, it has a map on the front and back inside covers. It was a bit tricky to get my hands on, though— had to order through AbeBooks and I believe it got shipped to me (in New York) from the UK."

If you need books from the UK, try Book Depository

[Linda]

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek has a map.

[Andrew]

The Broken Empire and Red Queen's War trilogy's by Mark Lawrence have maps.

[Nadine in NY]

Oof, maps. I’m struggling with this one because of course all the books that I know have maps ... are books I’ve already read. Lucky for me, I like to read fantasy, since that’s the primary “map genre,” so I will probably stumble across something.

[poshpenny]

What I'm looking at so far:

The Glass Sentence
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Murder Is Bad Manners

Plotted: A Literary Atlas - This book looks awesome to me. Here's a flip-through
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands

I really do love maps. I would happily read any of these books about them:
A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers
Transit Maps of the World
Great City Maps: A historical journey through maps, plans, and paintings
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities

[Luffy Sempai]

Does a map of a room qualify? E.g The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

[Linda]

The Salt Path

[poshpenny]

Luffy wrote: "Does a map of a room qualify? E.g The Mysterious Affair at Styles."

I'm going with yes. Room, building, transit system, theme park, timeline, plot... Bring me all the maps!

[Lisa]

So many books I could choose for this
The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan (book 8 in wheel of time series)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (been meaning to get to this forever)
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams(think I read this a long time ago but want to read book 2 in the series)
Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati (my favorite author and a part of a re read of the Wilderness series

All with maps, all I want to read!!!

[Rachel]

For people who like classics, a lot of editions of Thomas Hardy's novels include a map of "Hardy's Wessex". The places he described were often real places in the south of England, but given fictional names: I have some Penguin Classics editions, and some Wordsworth Classics ones, and they all have a map at the start.

[Jennifer]

I am wondering if a map on the cover would count?
Thinking of When You Reach Me
Also adding The Fellowship of the Ring and the rest of The Lord of the Rings series.

[Elena]

Going through my physical collection for books I haven't already seen mentioned on these lists:

Fantasy:
Most of the Realms of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb, though this may vary by edition; mine are secondhand and span all manner of formats and printings. The only books in my set that don't have maps are the Rain Wild Chronicles quadrology--all of the other books do.

the Shadowmarch series (all four confirmed)

The Memoirs of Lady Trent series (can confirm the first three but I imagine the rest of the series does as well)

The Lions of Al-Rassan
Luck in the Shadows
The Dolphins of Pern
Through Wolf's Eyes
The Griffin Mage Trilogy

Nonfiction:
Into the Wild
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Other:
Dolores Claiborne (I'm surprised too, horror with a map? almost didn't check it)
The Regulators (so I started checking all my unread Stephen King stuff)
The Historian
Lost Lake (hardcover has map-printed end papers, other editions likely wouldn't qualify)

[Kristen]

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West has a map

[poshpenny]

This might be the year I finally read S.! If I do, I better start in January, that book is going to take EONS to read!


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Six of Crows
City of Ghosts
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

[Gina]

poshpenny wrote: "Gina wrote: "Recently read Gingerbread by Robert Dinsdale for this year's (2019) challenge, it has a map on the front and back inside covers. It was a bit tricky to get my hands on, though— had to ..."

Thanks for the tip! Looks like Book Depository ships to the US for free. They even have the book I mentioned: https://www.bookdepository.com/search...

[Beth]

Definitely have to recommend What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions which contains several maps and is just a really fun and entertaining read.

[poshpenny]

Gina wrote: "Thanks for the tip! Looks like Book Depository ships to the US for free."

They are amazing. My UK copy of The Starless Sea even cost me less than my US copy, which was discounted. Yes I got both. They are both gorgeous in different ways. (UK is prettier on the outside, with stamped edges, and the US is GORGEOUS inside, with lots of filigree and pretty flourishes.)

They take ages to get here, but if you can't find it in the States, they are great.

[Rachel]

This is a great one for me. I have Ninth House, King of Scars and the entire Three Dark Crowns series on my list, and they all have maps!

[poshpenny]

Beth wrote: "Definitely have to recommend What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions which contains several maps and is just a really fun and entertaining read."

I listened to two of his books, and they were so fun, but I missed out on all the images!

[Karin]

For hard core Scifi lovers I just added Red Mars and Green Mars since not only is there a map of Mars in each book, it's got a lot about "terraforming" Mars and there is a fair bit of geography that comes up in the series; I'm currently reading Green Mars, but may delay Blue Mars for 2020 for this.

Has anyone else here read Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann? I borrowed it from the library and can't remember if it had a map or maps in it. I checked both Amazon and Barnes and Nobel but didn't see the inside of the cover since Barnes and Nobel only showed the nook version.

[Karin]

Jillian wrote: "For the convince of those who aren't a big fan of fantasy, I'll split this list into genres.

Nonfiction:
[book:The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Sc..."


The Martian is excellent, but I haven't read Artemis. Red Mars and Green Mars are from the 1990s so a different type of Mars story.

[Nadine in NY]

poshpenny wrote: "This might be the year I finally read S.! If I do, I better start in January, that book is going to take EONS to read!
..."



I borrowed S from the library once, and I was so intimidated, I didn't even try to read it, I just brought it back when my loan period expired.

[poshpenny]

I bought it a couple of years ago, and it's still in it's shrink wrap! It's extremely intimidating! I have to decide how I'm going to read it. I need to look up some tips. Although I'm thinking I might want to read the text and the margin notes all at once. I think. I may need a notebook? I'm scared Nadine! Hold me!

Maybe I need to start it now.

[Nadine in NY]

poshpenny wrote: "I bought it a couple of years ago, and it's still in it's shrink wrap! It's extremely intimidating! I have to decide how I'm going to read it. I need to look up some tips. Although I'm thinking I m..."

there're too many ways!! do you read all one color first? do you read each page in its entirety? And there's some sort of spinning graph thing that you use to line up the text colors, and all these websites with ideas of how to read it and YIKES.

[L Y N N]

As I recall Where the Crawdads Sing has a map.

[Karin]

Lynn wrote: "As I recall Where the Crawdads Sing has a map."

This is on my want to read shelf and I have read a number of good reviews--but would I use it here or for book recommended by my favourite online book club (by default I choose my first online group that moved here from Shelfari for favourite)? That's where I first say a recommendation for it and decided that I wanted to read it. Of course if I manage to wait before I start Blue Mars it won't be an issue, but I'm not sure I'll want to wait that long.

[poshpenny]

Nadine wrote: "there're too many ways!! do you read all one color first? do you read each page in its entirety? And there's some sort of spinning graph thing that you use to line up the text colors, and all these websites with ideas of how to read it and YIKES."

I WILL READ YOU, YOU SCARY BOOK! YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME!

[L Y N N]

Karin wrote: "Lynn wrote: "As I recall Where the Crawdads Sing has a map."

This is on my want to read shelf and I have read a number of good reviews--but would I use it here or for book recommen..."

It is one of my all-time favorite books. You can always just decide which prompt later. I track all the prompts a book fits and then decide at the end of the year which to use for which prompts. :)

[Karin]

Lynn wrote: "Karin wrote: "Lynn wrote: "As I recall Where the Crawdads Sing has a map."

This is on my want to read shelf and I have read a number of good reviews--but would I use it here or for..."

Smart. I am thinking through the birth month one since back when I first got email I chose a different month and day for my birthday (and after yahoo got hacked am VERY glad I did!) but am going to go with my cyber birthday.

At any rate, I'm starting a Word file with these early prompts and a list of the Olympic cities and ideally will go through my want to read shelf here, etc during the holidays in breaks from organizing something I plan every year during that break. Plus I plan to binge watch the third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the only Amazon Prime original series I like.

[Chrissy]

S. is good, and doesnt need to be scary. I think I’d recommend reading the text first, and then the margins. You can find info about which colors of ink were “written” in what order, if you want to make multiple passes through the marginalia. After you get through the text, the rest goes really fast.

[Eujean2]

I’m sure I will be able to read the new October Daye that comes out in September. They always have maps at the front.

[Heather]

Luffy wrote: "Does a map of a room qualify? E.g The Mysterious Affair at Styles."

Thank you for posting about the map in this one! I'm trying to read the entire Poirot series so I'm looking out for any prompts that will fit these books. There is also a map in Murder in Mesopotamia and Murder on the Orient Express.

[Frogli]

Sara wrote: "Sneak peek #7 - a book with a map

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Tell us some great books that contain maps!"

Yay maps! If you're a fantasy fan you're spoilt for choice :)

I'm probably going for The Republic of Thieves as it's been on my tbr for a while

[poshpenny]

Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
The Widow's War
Allies
York: The Shadow Cipher
York: The Clockwork Ghost

Cover:
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

[Inger]

Must there be a picture of a map, or could it just be that there is a map involved somewhere in the story?

[Theresa]

Don't forget mapbacks - those vintage paperback mysteries published by Dell with maps on the back cover! Often found at used bookstores and used book sales.

[poshpenny]

Circe
The Magic Misfits


Inger wrote: "Must there be a picture of a map, or could it just be that there is a map involved somewhere in the story?"

Not specified, fair game! Marauder's Map, anyone?

[Kristy]

Inger wrote: "Must there be a picture of a map, or could it just be that there is a map involved somewhere in the story?"

This one is so vague, it seems like it could be interpreted as cover art, an inside illustration, or just a component of the story. A lot of stories about treasure hunting, travel/tourism, adventuring, navigation, sea faring, etc would have maps involved. Books set in space would at least mention star charts. There's probably a dozen books in my TBR list that would qualify on this one for me.

[Jackie]

Heather wrote: "Luffy wrote: "Does a map of a room qualify? E.g The Mysterious Affair at Styles."

Thank you for posting about the map in this one! I'm trying to read the entire Poirot series so I'm l..."

In addition to those, I remember that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has a map of the house, Evil Under the Sun has a map of the island, Death in the Clouds has a map of the plane, and Murder in Mesopotamia has a map of the house.

Agatha sure loved a good map!

[Therese]

I have several books that will fit this prompt, but others nothing – yet. It is funny how that works.

[Lin]

Heather and Jackie,

Thanks for the heads up on Agatha Christie.
I went to the library yesterday and grabbed both The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Orient Express.

I’ll save one for this prompt and read in 2020.

[Nicole]

Most books about Thru-hiking have a map in them, for those who aren't interested in reading a fantasy book.
The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
New Boots in New Zealand: Nine Great Walks, Three Islands & One Tramping Virgin

[Amy J.]

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

I saw this on one of the lists. If I can confirm that it has a map, then I'll probably be reading it for the prompt.

[Tanya]

The Game of Thrones books have maps in them. I’m up to Book #4 A Feast for Crows so I will use that one for this prompt.

A Feast for Crows