We are trying to create a list of in-copyright novels that contain maps. If you know of some, drop them in the thread below! 🧵👇
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Leigh Bardugo Grishaverse
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To start with the obvious: A Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings
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Babel by R.F. Kuang
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A Gentleman in Moscow!
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I’m loving this book now
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@greenleejw.bsky.social you've made some maps for novels, right?
aug 28, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Only a few novels to this point, and I don't think any of them are published yet. Lots of history books
aug 28, 2025, 7:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Adding my reply to the main thread since I posted to @dmimno.bsky.social 's quoted repost: A recent, funky map I came across was in Christelle Dabos's The Memory of Babel.
aug 28, 2025, 6:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the Five Gods series.
aug 29, 2025, 8:45 am • 1 0 • view
Urshurak was the first thing that came to mind. Yes, I still have my copy from 1979. 👍❤️
aug 28, 2025, 5:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Barbara Hambly - The Darwarth trilogy Ursula Le Guin - The Books of Earthsea
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"A Story Like the Wind" by Laurens van der Post "A Far-off Place" by Laurens van der Post
aug 28, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
A borderline case might be Larson's Devil in the White City; a random find is Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
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+1 to YA / fantasy: The Fifth Season trilogy by Jemisin, as someone else mentioned; Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea series (also The Dispossessed)
aug 28, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Thieves' World anthologies; Rosenberg's 'The Sleeping Dragon'; @stevenbrust.bsky.social Taltos series; Weiss & Hickman's Deathgate books; most all of Eddings books; Tepper's "Riddlemaster of Hed" trilogy - off the top of my head before coffee.
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Pretty much every fantasy novel everywhere, which must number hundreds of thousands of not millions.
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Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker. I think also The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz.
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Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive books. (5+) Wexler’s Dark Lord Devi books. (2) “To shape a dragon’s breath,” by Moniquill Blackgoose “The god-king chronicles” by Mike Brooks (3) Kushiel series, by Jacqueline Carey (9+) Daevabad trilogy by SA Chakraborty
aug 28, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Dune, depending on how or where you expect the map to be. It has one the back panel of the first edition dust jacket
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Silmarillion, Tolkien
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Absalom Absalom by Faulkner
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I love Faulkner's maps! There's a great resource from UVA about them: faulkner.iath.virginia.edu/media/resour...
aug 28, 2025, 8:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
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Sanderson’s second-era Mistborn novels, starting with Alloy of Law Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows, I think? Pretty sure Garth Nix’s Abhorsen does? Patricia A. McKilip’s Riddle Master of Hed and sequels, I think Many more that I can’t remember atm
aug 28, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
VERY common in '80s fantasy, such as my own The Lure of the Basilisk. Stephen Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane also comes immediately to mind.
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@diane.dianeduane.com includes them in her "Door Into..." books. The Pern novels generally had maps as well, which I pored over as a kid (along with the Donaldson books' maps).
aug 28, 2025, 5:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Lord Foul’s Bane comes immediately to mind if we are talking about very overwritten books.
aug 28, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, yes, that, too, but I remember looking at that map when it first came out, and guessing much of the plot with about 80% accuracy.
aug 28, 2025, 5:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Phantom Tollbooth
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The Ice Shirt by William Vollmann. Gravity’s Rainbow kind of.
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Basically every novel by @terrybrooks.bsky.social !
aug 28, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I love the maps. - CS Lewis Narnia books - Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons series - Raymond E Feist Magician series - Some of the Tintin books have treasure maps. - Asterix books - Also the Radio4 dramatisation of the Hobbit had a release with a large folded map of middle earth.
aug 28, 2025, 9:22 pm • 2 1 • view
Winnie the Pooh (though the map itself might have first appeared in 1924?), assorted Moomin books.
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David Eddings's Belgariad and Malloreon series. P.C. Hodgell's Kencyrath series, starting with _God Stalk_.
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"Robin Hobb"'s Farseer trilogy had a map which I recall was a map of Alaska turned upside-down.
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@pauldoiron.bsky.social Do any of the books in the Mike Bowditch series have maps? I can't recall & don't have them handy.
aug 28, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Are fictional maps okay? If yes, the inheritance cycle by Christopher paolini, also the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
aug 29, 2025, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
thomasmdbrooke.com/2015/10/21/1... Also, the Earthsea book series
aug 29, 2025, 5:01 am • 2 0 • view
Very common in YA / fantasy novels to have maps, I think? I bet you could do well just from getting stuff off of fantasy paperbacks. Off the top of my head: pretty sure all the Redwall (Brian Jacques) ones, most of Ken Liu's fantasy novels, that kind of stuff?
aug 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes! I open lots of new fantasy books and find maps. I made small a section on my bookshelf a little while ago that was, like, fantasy books I'd recently read(compared to "not yet read" books), and realized it was also a section of books with maps in the front. I'll have to go check the titles
aug 29, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you looking for *any* kind of map? (stop me if you know this) Dell published 'mapbacks' for years. Each title's back cover had a relevant map. Most were mysteries, but there were some romance titles too. Collectors are wild for them & there are lots of lists online tinyurl.com/yc7bupcn
aug 28, 2025, 5:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Truly, any kind of map! I haven't heard of these before, but they are super cool!
aug 28, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm glad I could introduce you to them! In the early 2020s, Powell's Books in Oregon made their store map in the style of mapbacks. It was a whole little pamphlet 😄
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I think all of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels had at least one map, some had more. Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar series and Empire Trilogy. Belgariad series by David Eddings. Lounge someone else said, it was pretty standard in fantasy novels set in a fictional world for a good while.
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