Oh, the Books! Bookish guide: Books About Maps (26 books)

Oh, the Books! Bookish Guides is a monthly recommendation feature in which we share books we love that fit a certain hard-to-find category. For August 2014, we decided to focus on maps. This list will feature books about maps (and we'll have another list for books with maps inside!).

[The books in this list were all curated from our -- and your -- recommendations in our post on Oh, the Books!]

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1	Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings 3.86 avg rating — 8,199 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology by Caroline Paul (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 4,619 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon 4.02 avg rating — 418 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs 3.77 avg rating — 402 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies by Kollektiv Orangotango+ (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett 3.54 avg rating — 4,127 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy, #1) by S.E. Grove (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 7,386 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 762 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Mapmaker's War (Keeper of Tales Trilogy, #1) by Ronlyn Domingue (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 914 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton 3.80 avg rating — 834 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author) 4.76 avg rating — 484,951 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Power of Maps by Denis Wood (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 118 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1) by Carrie Ryan (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 2,912 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 970 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski 3.85 avg rating — 143 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield 3.69 avg rating — 4,445 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers by Antonis Antoniou (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 265 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Paris vs New York by Vahram Muratyan 4.17 avg rating — 1,164 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 13,301 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Map Trap by Andrew Clements 3.79 avg rating — 1,253 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1) by Kate Milford (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28,805 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,410 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski 3.85 avg rating — 143 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	An Atlas of Radical Cartography by Avery Gordon 3.97 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg 3.97 avg rating — 327 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi 4.01 avg rating — 936 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars