Map Books of 2025

This is a list of cartography and geospatial-related books that, to my knowledge, are being published in 2025. I will update this page throughout the year as I receive new information. Which is to say that this information is subject to change and often in flux (publishers reschedule books all the time).

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Titles link to my reviews. Prices are rounded to the nearest dollar, pound or euro. If the icon appears in a listing, it means that I have received a review copy from the publisher.

A icon suggests possible suitability as a gift—I emphasize possible, because I have seen only a fraction of what’s listed here.

Books can have different release dates in different markets and in different formats. As examples, a book may come out in the U.K. months before it does in the U.S., and the ebook edition may come out months before the paper edition. I try to make a note of such things.

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Pages from previous years can be found here: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. They are not corrected or updated past the year they’re for.

January

• Irish Ordnance Survey Maps: A User’s Guide by Paul Mulligan. Wordwell, 2 Jan 2025 (U.S. 6 Mar 2025), €25. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580) by Jakub Niedźwiedź, Karol Łopatecki and Grzegorz Franczak. Brill, 13 Jan 2025, $179. Amazon (Canada, UK), open access.
• Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France by Camille Serchuk. Pennsylvania State University Press, 28 Jan 2025, $100. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

February

• Temps, sciences et empire: Cosmographie et navigation dans les monarchies ibériques au XVI^e siècle by Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi. Brepols, 25 Feb 2025, €90. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination by Caroline Anjali Ritchie. Palgrave Macmillan, 25 Feb 2025, $130. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

March

• Pittsburgh in 50 Maps by Stentor Danielson. Belt, 18 Mar 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• The Times Mini Atlas of the World, 9th ed. Times Books, 13 Mar 2025 (U.S./Can 27 May 2025), £12. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

April

• Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps of New York City 1807-1940 by Mark D. Tomasko. University of Chicago Press, 5 Apr 2025, $35. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map by Kären Wigen. University of Chicago Press, 7 Apr 2025, $45. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Cartographic Poetry: Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps by Ted Binnema, François Lanoë and Heinz W. Pyszczyk. University of Alberta Press, 8 Apr 2025, CAD $40. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Inventor of Britain: The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd by Philip Schwyzer. University of Wales Press, 15 Apr 2025 (U.S. 12 Jun 2025), £20. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

May

• Cartografías críticas de las periferias urbanas ed. by Elia Canosa Zamora and Ángela García Carballo. Tirant, 5 May 2025, 31.90€. Amazon Spain.
• Exploration Map by Map. DK, 6 May 2025, $40. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Modern London Maps by Vincent Westbrook. Batsford, 8 May 2025, £30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Giacomo Gastaldi Maps the World: A General Study and Cartobibliography by Douglas W. Sims. Boreas Press, 19 May 2025, $50. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Maps on Vinyl: An Atlas of Album Cover Maps by Damien Saunder. Self-published, 15 May 2025, AUD $79/$50. Amazon Australia, The Map Center.
• GIS for Dummies, 2nd ed., by Jami Dennis with Michael N. DeMers. For Dummies, 26 May 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

June

• Great Lakes in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill. Belt, 3 Jun 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Telling Stories with Maps by Allen Carroll. Esri, 10 Jun 2025, $45. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

July

• Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office by Mark Lambert, James Harkins, Brian A. Stauffer and Patrick Walsh. University of Texas Press, 1 Jul 2025, $45. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World In Progress by James Cheshire. Bloomsbury, 14 Oct 2025, £30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations by Matthew H. Edney. Brill, 10 Jul 2025, $87. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Esri Map Book, Vol. 40. Esri, 22 Jul 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

August

• Earth Shapers by Maxim Samson. Profile Books, 7 Aug 2025, £22. University of Chicago Press, 13 Oct 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Tactile Mapping: Cartography for People with Visual Impairments ed. by Vincent van Altena and Jakub Wabiński. Esri, 12 Aug 2025, $55. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Early Modern Nautical Charts of the Adriatic Sea ed. by Josip Faričić and Tome Marelić. Palgrave Macmillan, 14 Aug 2025, $60. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop, open access.
• The Travel Atlas. Paperback edition. Lonely Planet, 26 Aug 2025, $35. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

September

• GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS ed. by Ismael Chivite, Nicholas Giner and Matt Artz. Esri, 2 Sep 2025, $40. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Cartographia : Comment les géographes (re)dessinent le Monde by Françoise Bahonen and Nicolas Lambert. Armand Colin, 10 Sep 2025, 20€. Amazon (Canada, France, UK).
• Utterly British Maps by Helen McKenzie. National Trust Books, 11 Sep 2025 (U.S. 16 Dec 2025), £10. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Maps: Their Untold Stories, 2nd ed., by Rose Mitchell and Andrew James. Conway, 11 Sep 2025 (U.S. 11 Nov 2025), £25. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Mapping the North by Charlotta Forss. Bodleian Library, 18 Sep 2025 (U.S. 18 Nov 2025), £25/$40. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions by Andréa Doré. Brill, 25 Sep 2025, $157. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Atlas of Borders by Delphine Papin, Bruno Tertrais and Xemartin Laborde. Thames and Hudson, 25 Sep 20225 (U.S. 18 Nov 2025), £30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

October

• Oxford Atlas of the World, 32nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1 Oct 2025, $95. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Ireland: Mapping the Island by Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson. Birlinn, 2 Oct 2025 (U.S. 2 Dec 2025), £30/$45. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• History of the World in Maps by Philip Parker. Times Books, 9 Oct 2025, £30. Amazon (Canada, UK).
• The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown. Batsford, 9 Oct 2025 (U.S. 21 Oct 2025), £30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World In Progress by James Cheshire. Bloomsbury, 14 Oct 2025, £30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• The 1960s: Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See a Turbulent Decade by Gordon Kerr. Illustrated by Claire Rollet. The Experiment, 14 Oct 2025, $23. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Maps, Annotated. DK, 21 Oct 2025. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Echo Maker: Craig Macdonald and the Lives that Produced One of Canada’s Most Significant Historical Maps by James Raffan. Dundurn, 14 Oct 2025, CAD $40. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin ed. by So Mayer and Sarah Shin. Spiral House, 21 Oct 2025 (U.S. 10 Jan 2026), £23. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters) by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman. Mudlark, 23 Oct 2025, £17. Hanover Square Press, 18 Nov 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination by Aaron Nyerges. Cambridge University Press, 23 Oct 2025, £90/$120. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Secret Maps by Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko. British Library, 24 Oct 2025, £40. University of Chicago Press, 14 Nov 2025, $39. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

November

• The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece by David Fletcher. Bodleian Library, 6 Nov 2025 (U.S. 6 Jan 2026), £35/$55. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places by John Edward Huth. University of Chicago Press, 12 Nov 2025, $32.50. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street by Elizabeth Cox. Massey University Press, 13 Nov 2025, NZD $90. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Radical Cartography by William Rankin. Viking, 11 Nov 2025, $40. Picador, 13 Nov 2025, £30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

December

• Cincinnati in 50 Maps ed. by Nick Swartsell; cartography by Andy Woodruff. Belt, 2 Dec 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Columbus in 50 Maps ed. by Brent Warren; cartography by Vicky Johnson-Dahl. Belt, 2 Dec 2025, $30. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Mapping: Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry ed. by Gihan Karunaratne. Routledge, 29 Dec 2025, $190. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.
• Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842 by Florin-Stefan Morar. Cambridge University Press, 31 Dec 2025, £90/$120. Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.