Best Popular Geography Books on Goodreads

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) 4.19 avg rating β€” 110,370 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating β€” 445,070 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating β€” 75,029 ratings
4.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β€” 102,339 ratings
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will 4.23 avg rating β€” 4,768 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating β€” 412,858 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,201,943 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating β€” 73,875 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating β€” 436,146 ratings
10.
The Control of Nature
The Control of Nature 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,840 ratings
11.
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History 4.17 avg rating β€” 3,947 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World 3.84 avg rating β€” 38,202 ratings
13.
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,837 ratings
14.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days 3.95 avg rating β€” 274,995 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating β€” 75,179 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβ€”and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβ€”and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating β€” 55,254 ratings
16.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating β€” 93,187 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating β€” 18,439 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
1421: The Year China Discovered America 3.61 avg rating β€” 15,061 ratings
20.
Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)
Lost and Found (The Boy, #2) 4.34 avg rating β€” 10,388 ratings
21.
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology 3.82 avg rating β€” 13,927 ratings
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders 4.23 avg rating β€” 8,122 ratings
22.
London: The Biography
London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating β€” 5,912 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks 3.86 avg rating β€” 8,102 ratings
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Paddle-to-the-Sea
Paddle-to-the-Sea 4.29 avg rating β€” 6,805 ratings
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks 3.69 avg rating β€” 4,414 ratings
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley 3.79 avg rating β€” 4,239 ratings
28.
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,483 ratings
29.
How the States Got Their Shapes
How the States Got Their Shapes 3.54 avg rating β€” 3,874 ratings
30.
How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book) 4.04 avg rating β€” 2,827 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories 3.76 avg rating β€” 5,186 ratings
32.
Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,287 ratings
33.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God 3.93 avg rating β€” 61,222 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia 4.24 avg rating β€” 6,614 ratings
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The Scrambled States of America
The Scrambled States of America 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,126 ratings
36.
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,046 ratings
37.
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies 3.54 avg rating β€” 4,057 ratings
38.
Seabird
Seabird 4.02 avg rating β€” 2,334 ratings
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Maps
Maps 4.58 avg rating β€” 2,048 ratings
40.
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2,404 ratings
40.
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography 4.03 avg rating β€” 4,322 ratings
42.
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future 4.04 avg rating β€” 3,947 ratings
43.
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,573 ratings
43.
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1) 4.19 avg rating β€” 4,060 ratings
45.
Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World 4.36 avg rating β€” 4,300 ratings
46.
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History 4.27 avg rating β€” 1,906 ratings
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
by: The Onion
4.12 avg rating β€” 6,847 ratings
48.
A History of the World in 12 Maps
A History of the World in 12 Maps 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,752 ratings
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Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags 3.65 avg rating β€” 5,967 ratings
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The Production of Space
The Production of Space 4.16 avg rating β€” 2,208 ratings
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,078 ratings
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Material World: A Global Family Portrait
Material World: A Global Family Portrait 4.52 avg rating β€” 1,664 ratings
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The New Geography of Jobs
The New Geography of Jobs 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,711 ratings
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Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer 4.01 avg rating β€” 929 ratings
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime 3.60 avg rating β€” 2,822 ratings
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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power 3.96 avg rating β€” 2,755 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating β€” 119,166 ratings
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The Atlas of Middle-Earth
The Atlas of Middle-Earth 4.23 avg rating β€” 13,616 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki 4.16 avg rating β€” 24,592 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating β€” 8,561 ratings
61.
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World 4.37 avg rating β€” 2,470 ratings
62.
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,359 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
Notes from a Small Island 3.92 avg rating β€” 117,843 ratings
64.
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,137 ratings
64.
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,316 ratings
66.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating β€” 106,834 ratings
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Tree in the Trail
Tree in the Trail 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,442 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating β€” 66,338 ratings
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean 3.96 avg rating β€” 2,323 ratings
70.
If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
If You Lived Here: Houses of the World 4.18 avg rating β€” 946 ratings
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
An Atlas of Extinct Countries 3.58 avg rating β€” 3,145 ratings
72.
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating β€” 21,503 ratings
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World 3.33 avg rating β€” 1,726 ratings
72.
Mirror
Mirror 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,532 ratings
72.
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,653 ratings
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How to Lie with Maps
How to Lie with Maps 3.58 avg rating β€” 1,146 ratings
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Pagoo
Pagoo 4.36 avg rating β€” 1,154 ratings
78.
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 4.12 avg rating β€” 20,586 ratings
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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,193 ratings
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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate 3.78 avg rating β€” 6,005 ratings
80.
Minn of the Mississippi: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Minn of the Mississippi: A Newbery Honor Award Winner 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,438 ratings
82.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating β€” 19,192 ratings
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,350 ratings
84.
The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating β€” 42,955 ratings
85.
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4) 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,248 ratings
85.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by: Dan Egan
4.34 avg rating β€” 11,017 ratings
87.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 4.19 avg rating β€” 14,289 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating β€” 850,544 ratings
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The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating β€” 54,683 ratings
90.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time 4.32 avg rating β€” 8,338 ratings
90.
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States 4.46 avg rating β€” 19,123 ratings
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,321 ratings
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats 4.43 avg rating β€” 1,808 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating β€” 28,488 ratings
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List 3.88 avg rating β€” 43,382 ratings
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution 3.92 avg rating β€” 2,040 ratings
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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism 3.71 avg rating β€” 397 ratings
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The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea 4.23 avg rating β€” 2,725 ratings
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Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls 4.01 avg rating β€” 6,459 ratings
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Me On The Map
Me On The Map 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,038 ratings
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