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Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ahmed, Saladin. Throne of the Crescent Moon . DAW, 2012. Anderson, Poul. The High Crusade . Doubleday, 1960. Ashby, Madeline. Company Town . Tor, 2016. Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Alchemist . Audible, 2010. ——— and Tobias S. Buckell. The Tangled Lands . Saga, 2018. Barnes, John. One for the Morning Glory . Tor, 1996. Beukes, Lauren. Zoo City . Angry Robot, 2010. Brennan, Marie. A Natural History of Dragons . Tor, 2013. ———. Driftwood . Tachyon, 2020. Bobet, Leah. Above . Arthur A. Levine, 2012. Boyczuk, Robert. The Book of Thomas . ChiZine, 2012. Buckell, Tobias S. The Executioness . Audible, 2010. ———. Arctic Rising . Tor, 2012. Church, Suzanne. Elements . Edge, 2014. Corey, James S. A. Leviathan Wakes . Orbit, 2011. ———. Caliban’s War . Orbit, 2012. De Bodard, Aliette. Servant of the Underworld . Angry Robot, 2010. ———. Harbinger of the Storm . Angry Robot, 2011. ———. Master of the House of Darts . Angry Robot, 2012. ———. The House of Shattered Wings . Gollancz/Roc, 2015. ———. The House of Binding Thorns . Ace/Gollancz, 2017. Dellamonica, A. M. Child of a Hidden Sea . Tor, 2014. Domingue, Ronlyn. The Mapmaker’s War . Atria Books, 2013. Dozois, Gardner. When the Great Days Come . Prime, 2011. Duncan, Andy. The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories . PS Publishing, 2012. Fox, Rose and Daniel José Older, eds. Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History . Crossed Genres, 2014. Gardner, James Alan. All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault . Tor, 2017. Grant, Mira. Feed . Orbit, 2010. ———. Deadline . Orbit, 2011. ———. Blackout . Orbit, 2012. Gunn, Eileen. Questionable Practices . Small Beer, 2014. Haldeman, Joe. Marsbound . Ace, 2008. Hopkinson, Nalo. Falling in Love with Hominids . Tachyon, 2015. Hurley, Kameron. The Stars Are Legion . Angry Robot/Saga Press, 2017. Jemisin, N. K. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms . Orbit, 2010. Johnson, Kij. At the Mouth of the River of Bees . Small Beer, 2012. Johnson, Matthew. Fall from Earth . Bundoran, 2009. ———. Irregular Verbs and Other Stories . ChiZine, 2014. Klima, John, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, eds. Glitter and Mayhem . Apex, 2013. Kowal, Mary Robinette. Glamour and Glass . Tor, 2012. ———. Without a Summer . Tor, 2013. ———. Ghost Talkers . Tor, 2016. Lalumière, Claude. Venera Dreams . Guernica, 2017. Liu, Ken, ed. Invisible Planets . Tor, 2016. Lord, Karen. The Best of All Possible Worlds . Del Rey/Jo Fletcher, 2013. Mastai, Elan. All Our Wrong Todays . Doubleday Canada/Michael Joseph/Penguin, 2017. McDonald, Ian. The Dervish House . Pyr, 2010. ———. Planesrunner . Pyr, 2011. ———. Be My Enemy . Pyr, 2012. Miéville, China. Embassytown . Del Rey/Macmillan, 2011. Milbrodt, Teresa. Instances of Head-Switching . Shade Mountain Press, 2020. Navarro, Elvira. Rabbit Island . Trans. by Christina MacSweeney. Two Lines Press, 2021. Neuvel, Sylvain. Sleeping Giants . Del Rey, 2016. ———. Waking Gods . Del Rey, 2017. Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous . Tor, 2017. Owen, James A. Here, There Be Dragons . Simon and Schuster, 2006. Ozeki, Ruth. A Tale for the Time Being . Viking, 2013. Palmer, Ada. Too Like the Lightning . Tor, 2016. ———. The Will to Battle . Tor, 2017. Panshin, Alexei. Rite of Passage . Ace, 1968. Priest, Christopher. The Islanders . Gollancz, 2011. Robinson, Kim Stanley. 2312 . Orbit, 2012. Samatar, Sofia. The Winged Histories . Small Beer, 2016. Savory, Brett. A Perfect Machine . Angry Robot, 2017. Sawyer, Robert J. Triggers . Ace/Viking, 2012. ———. Red Planet Blues . Ace/Viking, 2013. ———. Quantum Night . Ace/Viking, 2016. Scalzi, John. Zoe’s Tale . Tor, 2009. ———. Fuzzy Nation . Tor, 2011. ———. Redshirts . Tor, 2012. ———. The Human Division . Tor, 2013. ———. Miniatures . Subterranean, 2016. ———. Head On . Tor, 2018. Schanoes, Veronica. Burning Girls and Other Stories . Tor.com, 2021. Schroeder, Karl. Lockstep . Tor, 2014. Shepherd, Peng. The Cartographers . William Morrow/Orion, 2022. Slonczewski, Joan. A Door into Ocean . Arbor House, 1986. St. John Mandel, Emily. Station Eleven . Knopf/Picador, 2014. Sterling, Bruce. Pirate Utopia . Tachyon, 2016. Strahan, Jonathan, ed. Engineering Infinity . Solaris, 2010. ———, ed. Bridging Infinity . Solaris, 2016. ———, ed. Infinity Wars . Solaris, 2017. Stross, Charles. The Delirium Brief . Orbit/Tor.com, 2017. Swanwick, Michael. Dancing with Bears . Night Shade, 2011. ———. Not So Much, Said the Cat . Tachyon, 2016. Swithin, Antony. Princes of Sandastre . Fontana, 1990. Tidbeck, Karin. Amatka . Vintage, 2017. Valente, Catherynne M. Deathless . Tor, 2011. ———. Radiance . Tor, 2015. Waldrop, Howard. Horse of a Different Color . Small Beer, 2013. Walton, Jo. Lifelode . NESFA Press, 2009. ———. Among Others . Tor, 2011. ———. My Real Children . Tor, 2014. ———. The Just City . Tor, 2015. ———. The Philosopher Kings . Tor, 2015. ———. Necessity . Tor, 2016. Watts, Peter. Beyond the Rift . Tachyon, 2013. ———. Echopraxia . Tor, 2014. Weir, Andy. The Martian . 2011. Crown, 2014. ———. Artemis . Crown/Del Rey, 2017. Wexler, Robert Freeman. Undiscovered Territories . PS Publishing, 2021.
Nonfiction
Astronomy and Space
Dupont-Bloch, Nicolas. Shoot the Moon . Cambridge University Press, 2016. Ferris, Timothy. Seeing in the Dark . Simon and Schuster, 2002. Gallentine, Jay. Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft . University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Kanas, Nick. Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography . 3rd ed. Springer Praxis, 2019. Schenk, Paul. Atlas of the Galilean Satellites . Cambridge University Press, 2010. Sinnott, Roger W. Sky and Telescope’s Pocket Sky Atlas . Sky Publishing, 2006. Sobel, Dava. The Glass Universe . Viking, 2016. Tirion, Wil. Cambridge Star Atlas . 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Ward, Peter W. and Donald Brownlee. The Life and Death of Planet Earth . Times Books, 2003.
Biography and Memoir
Butcher, William. Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography . Thunder’s Mouth, 2006. Greene, Harry W. Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art . University of California Press, 2013. Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs . Simon and Schuster, 2011. James, Jamie. The Snake Charmer . Hachette, 2008. Monmonier, Mark. Adventures in Academic Cartography . Bar Scale Press, 2014. Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt . Putnam, 1979. ———. Theodore Rex . Random House, 2001. ———. Colonel Roosevelt . Random House, 2010. Offutt, Chris. My Father, the Pornographer . Atria, 2016. Swafford, Jan. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Cartography and Maps
Bennett, Jim. Navigation: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press, 2017. Berry, Jill K. Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking . North Light Books, 2011. Blanding, Michael. The Map Thief . Gotham, 2014. Blando, Jared. How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps . Impact, 2015. Brooke-Hitching, Edward. The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps . Simon & Schuster UK, 2016; Chronicle, 2018. Brotton, Jerry. A History of the World in Twelve Maps . Allen Lane, 2012. Bucklan, Matthew and Victor Cizek. North American Maps for Curious Minds . The Experiment, 2021. Canada Back Road Atlas . MapArt, 2007.Davies, John and Alexander J. Kent. The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World . University of Chicago Press, 2017. Edney, Matthew H. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History . University of Chicago Press, 2019. Edwards, Melissa. The Geist Atlas of Canada: Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies . Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006. Ekman, Stefan. Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings . Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Felt, Hali. Soundings . Henry Holt, 2012. Garfield, Simon. On the Map . Gotham, 2013. Hall, Debbie, ed. Treasures from the Map Room . The Bodleian Library, 2016. Hancock, James Gulliver et al. The Art of Map Illustration . Walter Foster, 2018. Harmon, Katharine. You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City . Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. Harper, Tom. Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library . The British Library, 2018. Harzinski, Kris. From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association . Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon . University of California Press, 2011. Hewitt, Rachel. Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey . Granta, 2010. Hornsby, Stephen J. Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps . University of Chicago Press, 2017. Huth, John Edward. The Lost Art of Finding Our Way . Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2013. Jennings, Ken. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks . Simon and Schuster, 2011. Kanas, Nick. Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography . 3rd ed. Springer Praxis, 2019. Kashuba, Melinda. Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist’s Guide to Using Maps and Geography . Family Tree Books, 2005. Krygier, John and Denis Wood. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS . Guilford Press, 2005. Lester, Toby. The Fourth Part of the World . The Free Press, 2009. Lewis-Jones, Huw, ed. The Writer’s Map . Thames & Hudson/University of Chicago Press, 2018. Liesemer, Dirk. Phantom Islands . Trans. by Peter Lewis. Haus, 2019. Maier, Jessica. The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps . University of Chicago Press, 2020. Mason, Betsy and Greg Miller. All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey . National Geographic, 2018. Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps . 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1996. ———. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection . University of Chicago Press, 2004. ———. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim and Inflame . University of Chicago Press, 2006. ———. Adventures in Academic Cartography . Bar Scale Press, 2014. ———. How to Lie with Maps . 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2018. ———. Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address . University of Iowa Press, 2022. National Geographic Atlas of the World . 9th ed. National Geographic, 2010.The Onion. Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth . Little, Brown, 2007. Ovenden, Mark. Transit Maps of the World . Penguin, 2007. ———. Paris Underground . Penguin, 2009. ———. Underground Cities . Frances Lincoln, 2020. Owings, Rich. GPS Mapping: Make Your Own Maps . Ten Mile Press, 2005. Parker, Mike. Map Addict . Collins, 2009. Ramm, Frederik, Jochen Topf and Steve Chilton. OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World . UIT Cambridge, 2010. Reichle, Natasha, ed. China at the Center . Asian Art Museum, 2016. Reinhartz, Dennis. The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments . Sterling, 2013. Roman, John. The Art of Illustrated Maps . HOW Books, 2015. Schulten, Susan. A History of America in 100 Maps . University of Chicago Press, 2018. Shoalts, Adam. A History of Canada in Ten Maps . Allen Lane, 2017. Sinnott, Roger W. Sky and Telescope’s Pocket Sky Atlas . Sky Publishing, 2006. Sobel, Dava. Longitude . Walker, 2007. Solnit, Rebecca. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas . University of California Press, 2010. Springer, Nick, ed. Cartography Design Annual #1 . Self-published, 2008. Tallack, Malachy. The Un-Discovered Islands . Birlinn, 2016; Picador, 2017. The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World . 15th ed. HarperCollins, 2018.Tirion, Wil. Cambridge Star Atlas . 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Trinklein, Michael J. Lost States . Self-published, 2008. Van Duzer, Chet. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps . The British Library, 2013. Wood, Denis, Ward L. Kaiser and Bob Abramms. Seeing Through Maps . ODT, 2006.
Geography
Health
History
Literary Criticism
Miscellaneous
Music
Paleontology
Black, Riley (as Brian Switek). Written in Stone . Bellevue Literary Press, 2010. ———. My Beloved Brontosaurus . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Brusatte, Steve. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs . William Morrow, 2018. ———. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals . Mariner, 2022. Pickrell, John. Weird Dinosaurs . Columbia University Press, 2017. Tattersall, Ian. Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins . St. Martin’s Press, 2012.
Reptiles and Amphibians
Flank, Lenny Jr. Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Venomous Snakes . Red and Black, 2008. Gibbons, Whit. Snakes of the Eastern United States . University of Georgia Press, 2017. ——— and Mike Dorcas. Snakes of the Southeast . Rev. ed. University of Georgia Press, 2015. Graham, Sean P. American Snakes . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Greene, Harry W. Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art . University of California Press, 2013. James, Jamie. The Snake Charmer . Hachette, 2008. Montgomery, Sy. The Snake Scientist . Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Steen, David A. Secrets of Snakes: The Science Beyond the Myths . Texas A&M University Press, 2019. Wright, Erica. Snake . Bloomsbury, 2020.
Trains
Travel
Bonnett, Alastair. Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. ———. Elsewhere: A Journey into Our Age of Islands . University of Chicago Press, 2020. Foer, Joshua, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton. Atlas Obscura . Workman, 2016. Le Carrer, Olivier. Atlas of Cursed Places . Black Dog & Leventhal, 2015. Thompson, Chuck. Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer . Holt, 2007.
Writing
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