Here are the books that have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2016. Clicking on the title, if it’s a link, takes you to a blog post about the book.
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
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January
The Miami Map Fair: The First 20 Years
by Joseph H. Fitzgerald
CreateSpace
Amazon
February
Frederick de Wit and the First Concise Reference Atlas
by George Carhart
Brill Publishing
Amazon
The Chang’E-1 Topographic Atlas of the Moon
by Li Chunlai et al.
Springer
Amazon
March
City Maps: A Coloring Book for Adults
by Gretchen N. Peterson
PetersonGIS
Amazon
China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps
edited by Natasha Reichle
Asian Art Museum
Amazon
Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps
edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko and Cary Karacas
University of Chicago Press
Amazon / iBooks
April
People and Places: A 21st-Century Atlas of the U.K.
by Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas
Policy Press
Amazon
The Pre-Siege Maps of Malta: Second Century AD–1564
by Albert Ganado and Joseph Schirò
BDL
Mapping the Airways
by Paul Jarvis
Amberley Publishing
Amazon / iBooks
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Civilization
by Parag Khanna
Random House / W&N
Amazon / iBooks-
Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Fourth Edition)
by Norman J. Thrower
University of Chicago Press
Amazon
May
Ultimate Mapping Guide for Kids
by Justin Miles
QED Publishing (U.K.)
Amazon
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
by Greg Milner
W. W. Norton
Amazon / iBooks
The Enigma of the Origin of Portolan Charts: A Geodetic Analysis of the Hypothesis of a Medieval Origin
by Roel Nicolai
Brill
Amazon
Kaarten van de Nederlandse Antillen
by Wim Renkma
Brill
Amazon
June
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
by Surekha Davies
Cambridge University Press
Amazon
Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
edited by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim
Princeton Architectural Press
Amazon / iBooks
Albion’s Glorious Ile: A Hand-Colouring Book from the Songs of Poly-Olbion
by William Hole; edited by Anne Louise Avery
Unicorn Press
Amazon
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
by Cóilín Parsons
Oxford University Press
Amazon / iBooks
July
Making Art from Maps: Inspiration, Techniques, and an International Gallery of Artists
by Jill K. Berry
Rockport Publishers
Amazon / iBooks
Somerset Mapped: Cartography in the County Through the Centuries
by Emma Down and Adrian Webb
Halsgrove
Amazon
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
by William Rankin
University of Chicago Press
Amazon / iBooks
August
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS (3rd edition)
by John Krygier and Denis Wood
Guilford Press
Amazon
Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
by Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel
University of Oklahoma Press
Amazon- Ultimate Mapping Guide for Kids
by Justin Miles
Firefly Books (North America)
Amazon
September
Atlas of Improbable Places
by Travis Elborough and Alan Horsfield
Aurum Press
Amazon
Atlas Obscura
by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
Workman
Amazon / iBooks
Treasures from the Map Room
edited by Debbie Hall
Bodleian Library
Amazon
Great City Maps
Dorling Kindersley
Amazon
The Times Concise Atlas of the World (13th edition)
Times Books/HarperCollins
Amazon
October
Maps of War: Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries
by Jeremy Black
Conway
Amazon
War Map: Pictorial Conflict Maps, 1900-1950
by Philip Curtis and Jakob Sondergard Pedersen
The Map House
Amazon
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
by Eamon Evans
Hachette Australia
Amazon / iBooks
Scotland: Mapping the Islands
by Christopher Fleet, Margaret Wilkes and Charles W. J. Withers
Birlinn
Amazon
Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
by Josh Katz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Amazon / iBooks
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
by Marcia Kupfer
Yale University Press
Amazon
The Great British Colouring Map
by the Ordnance Survey
Laurence King
Amazon
Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
by Rebecca Solnit
University of California Press
Amazon
Britain’s Tudor Maps: County by County
by John Speed
Batsford
Amazon
The Un-Discovered Islands
by Malachy Tallack
Birlinn
Amazon UK
November
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Simon & Schuster
Amazon / iBooks
You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City
by Katherine Harmon
Princeton Architectural Press
Amazon
Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line
edited by Tom Harper
The British Library
Amazon UK
Oxford: Mapping the City
by Daniel MacCannell
Birlinn
Amazon
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration
by Karen C. Pinto
University of Chicago Press
Amazon / iBooks