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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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
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
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural 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
How to Lie with Maps
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
The Atlas of Middle-Earth
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Paper Towns by John  GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRoyally Lost by Angie StantonRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchNo Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
Fiction with Map Covers
58 books — 28 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
229 books — 89 voters

The Map to Everywhere by Carrie RyanMapmakers and the Lost Magic by Cameron ChittockRowan of Rin by Emily RoddaThe Armoured Goretusk by Kris HumphreyMarauder's Map Guide to Hogwarts by Erinn Pascal
Magic Maps and Scale Models
52 books — 5 voters
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
488 books — 129 voters

Daddy's Hobby by Owen  JonesBangkok 8 by John BurdettEveryone Burns by John DolanLetters from Thailand by BotanBangkok Haunts by John Burdett
Terrific Thailand
71 books — 32 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
It was a shack, somewhere out on the outskirts of the Plains town of Scrote. Scrote had a lot of outskirts, spread so widely-a busted cart here, a dead dog there-that often people went through it without even knowing it was there, and really it only appeared on the maps because cartographers get embarrassed about big empty spaces.
Terry Pratchett

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

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