The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

27. Includes A Map


Anyone else love books with maps? Fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, travel, true-crime — there are many possibilities for books with maps.

Remember that all of our prompts can be completed using any format of book. If you’re listening to an audiobook, you may not be able to “see” the map — but that’s okay too! As long as one version of the book has a map in it or on it, you can pick any other format to complete the challenge with.

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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry . has a map of his journey. And a great many fantasy novels, besides LOTR and HP - Azkaban have maps.

Also the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles has a map for anyone not into fantasy

The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon

The lincoln highway. And eternal by lisa scottoline has a map in the front cover of the hardcover edition

A Court of Thorns and Roses has a map.

The women of Chateau Lafayette has a map at the beginning

Sorcery of Thorns

West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge has a map on the cover.

Books with Maps Inside Listopia.
2020 Popsugar Challenge Listopia.

I’m using Fires Of Heaven by Robert Jordan for this prompt. I’ve already read the first four in the Wheel Of Time series

I’m going to read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for this

I'm guessing Forging Silver into Stars will have a map. If not, I plan to reread the Cursebreaker trilogy (first book: A Curse So Dark and Lonely) in anticipation of Forging Silver into Stars, and they all have maps.

The new Tom Cox book, Villager, has a map in it. To be published in April. Although I’m also tempted by Sherry Mcmasters’ suggestion to reread The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

The Lost Apothecary has a map. I’m excited to read this one.

Pretense by Tara Grayce and all the books in this series include a map

Salt to the Sea by Rita Sepetys - it's in my TBR stack and fits this prompt!

The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K Le Guin, starting with the Wizard of Earthsea. Earthsea maps are in each book and on the author's web page. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/maps-of...

Helena wrote: "The new Tom Cox book, Villager, has a map in it. To be published in April. Although I’m also tempted by Sherry Mcmasters’ suggestion to reread The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe."

Ooh, nice - I've added Villager to my 'Published in 2022' section.

We Ride Upon Sticks has a map

To the bright edge of the World has a map. Wonderful book.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Hilda and the Hidden People is a fun book. In it Hilda draws a map and then uses it several times. It is referenced and refered to throughout the book.

So…last night, I looked over at my nightstand and glanced at my current book in one of my favorite series Rivers of London. It’s called The Hanging Tree and there’s a map on the cover. Woot! Then I looked at Ben Aaronovich’s Goodreads page and ALL OF THEM have maps. If you haven’t read this series, it falls under several different categories- police procedural, urban fantasy, supernatural, mythology. It full of snark and makes me miss living in London. Anyway, Book 1 is called Rivers of London and has a map, 5 syllables, character with superhuman ability, gorgeous spine, chapters have titles, alternate title for Book 1 is Midnight Riot, person of color is main character.

American Dirt has a map on the inside cover.

The Girls by Lisa Jewell, the version I’m reading has a hand drawn map of the garden and houses featured in the book, I found it really useful to refer back to and help map out the locations of the story.

The Outlandish Companion: Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn

The Outlandish Companion, Volume Two

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

A slow fire burning by Paula Hawkins has a map in it.
As does the Lost Apothecary,
Mark Haddon’s The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Game of Thrones by George R R Martin.

Some more children's books well worth a read or re-read...I think Watership Down has a map in it. And Cressida Cowell's How To Train Your Dragon series have fabulous hand-drawn maps. The audiobooks read by David Tennant are hilarious - how he jumps from one accent to another for the different tribes, I just don't know...

Two Towers, by JRR Tolkien.

These books were huge when I was a teenager, but I never read them myself. Finally read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings last year, and finished Two Towers today.

Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Soldier’s Wife

The Eye of the World

I'm actually sure any fantasy book would include a map in the book.

I will use Circe by Madeline Miller for this prompt.

When the Stars Go Dark

A map is included at the beginning of the book. I'm using this one for another prompt but wanted to include it here too.

I read Foxheart by Claire Legrand, 3 Stars

I read "Good Neighbors" by Sarah Langan to meet this requirement. I loved how the maps were updated as the book went on. I didn't like this book entirely as I read (some highly upsetting moments in it!) but I just kept reading and turned out to like it quite a bit more than I expected.

Good Neighbors

I am reading Segu by Maryse Conde

I read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Started 2/3/2022 Finished 2/6/2022

I'm going to read Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo for this prompt.

A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2022...
It's set on the island of Alderney and has a map at the front with significant places from the story marked.

I read Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry.

I just happened upon this group recently, so I’m a little late to the game. I just finished reading “Artemis” by Andy Weir, which has a map of the city in it. I found it to be just ok. I really enjoyed “The Martian” but I was hoping for something a little different with this one.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

There is a map of Blackheath in The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

We Were Liars contained a map. I liked the map. I hope to read more books with maps. This book was offensive as a disabled person. I hated the way they portrayed the main character

I read The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber for my book that contains a map.

Not my favorite book and kind of a waste of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Most of the Swords books are collections of short stories where this one is just one collected novel and Leiber really shows how good he is at writing short stories with this one. You don't get the rogues making euphemisms and puns at each other's expense, you don't get a good exploration of Lanhkmar even though that's what the title says, and you don't even get a good use of the map...there's some travel, but nothing you really need a map to feel or understand.

What do you get then? A book with a map that doesn't strike wonder and a whole lot of midcentury casual racism.

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I read Six of Crows for the April Mini-Challenge. It has a map do using it for this prompt also. If I have a chance e so will redo this prompt with another book.

I read A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab. It has maps separating chapters!