Here are the map- and cartography-related books that, to my knowledge, have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2021. This page will be updated throughout the year as I receive new information. To suggest a book for this list, please contact me.
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February
Children’s World Atlas
Arcturus, 15 Feb 2021 | ages 8+
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers and Wonks
by Jonathan Schwabish
Columbia University Press, 9 Feb 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Mapping America’s National Parks
by the U.S. National Park Service
Esri Press, 16 Feb 2021 (ebook)
Amazon (Canada, UK)
March
Digital Mapping and Indigenous America
edited by Janet Berry Hess
Routledge, 31 Mar 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
The Times Mini Atlas of the World (8th ed.)
HarperCollins, 4 Mar 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
April
The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West
by Peter Hiller
Gibbs Smith, 20 Apr 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Oxford Essential World Atlas (8th ed.)
Oxford University Press, 1 Apr 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Oxford New Concise World Atlas (6th ed.)
Oxford University Press, 1 Apr 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Mapping America’s National Parks
by the U.S. National Park Service
Esri Press, 20 Apr 2021 (paperback)
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales
by Christy Williams
Wayne State University Press, 27 Apr 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Apple Books | Bookshop
May
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc
by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
Routledge, 11 May 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
The Times Reference Atlas of the World (9th ed.)
HarperCollins, 13 May 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
June
The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 110 (4)
American Philosophical Society Press, 26 Jun 2021
Amazon (UK)
July
The Locators: Adventure in South America
by Kyle Bauer, Colleen Connor and Wesley Jones
Esri Press, 27 Jul 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
August
Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps
by Jordana Dym
Brill, 26 Aug 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
National Geographic Kids World Atlas (6th ed.)
National Geographic, 24 Aug 2021 | ages 10+
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data
by Kenneth Field
Esri Press, 31 Aug 2021 (ebook)
Amazon (Canada, UK)
September
Mapping by Design: A Guide to ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud
by Sarah Bell
Esri Press, 28 Sep 2021 (ebook)
Amazon (Canada, UK)
Atlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput to Gotham City
by Matt Brown and Rhys B. Davies
Batsford, 28 Sep 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Atlas of the Invisible
by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
Particular Books, 2 Sep 2021 (U.K. edition)
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
October
Mapping Nature Across the Americas
edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman
University of Chicago Press, 19 Oct 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Oxford Atlas of the World (28th ed.)
Oxford University Press, 1 Oct 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
November
Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography in the Americas
by Mirela Altic
University of Chicago Press, 19 Nov 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
North American Maps for Curious Minds
by Matthew Bucklan and Victor Cizek
The Experiment, 30 Nov 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Atlas of the Invisible
by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
W. W. Norton, 9 Nov 2021 (U.S. edition)
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps (Illustrated Young Readers Edition)
by Tim Marshall | ages 8 and up
The Experiment, 30 Nov 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
GIS for Science: Maps for Saving the Planet, Vol. 3
ed. by Dawn J. Wright and Christian Harder
Esri Press, 23 Nov 2021
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Announced for 2022
The Boy Who Loved Maps
by Kari Allen; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Anne Schwartz, 12 Jul 2022 | ages 4-8
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
Mapping by Design: A Guide to ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud
by Sarah Bell
Esri Press, 4 Jan 2022 (paperback)
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
The Quarantine Atlas
by Laura Bliss
Black Dog & Leventhal, 5 Apr 2022
Amazon (Canada) | Bookshop
Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data
by Kenneth Field
Esri Press, 29 Mar 2022 (paperback)
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop
The Cartographers
by Peng Shepherd
William Morrow, 15 Mar 2022 (US); Orion, 17 Mar 2022 (UK)
Amazon (Canada, UK) | Bookshop