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]
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
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 Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
The Collectors
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
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
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
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
A History of the World in 12 Maps
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
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
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Fictitious Japan
136 books — 34 voters
Glasgow's Secret Geometry by Harry BellThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Secret Plan of Canberra by Peter ProudfootBolivia, as the Insidious Author and Persistent Perpetrator o... by Hinton Rowan HelperThe Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John Howgego
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100 books — 1 voter

In Search of the Return by Joshua   RaymondQuiet American by Graham GreeneLotusland by David JoinerThe Lover by Marguerite DurasTree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Fictitious Vietnam
55 books — 32 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstAn Anonymous Girl by Greer HendricksMy Eyes Are Black Holes by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dice Man by Luke RhinehartY is for Fidelity by Logan Ryan Smith
Dark Psychological Fiction
19 books — 16 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha ShannonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Popsugar 2020 - A book with a map
293 books — 261 voters
Orope - The White Snake by Guenevere LeeThe Key of F by Jennifer HaskinAltered Straits by Kevin Martens WongThe Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox
Alternate History Debuts For 2018
4 books — 7 voters


Rebecca Solnit
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Charlotte Eriksson
I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind ...more
Charlotte Eriksson

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