Select the image for a larger view. Trust me, it’s worth it.
The illustration is from “Plotted: A Literary Atlas” by Andrew DeGraff and this particular image of the illustration is from the review: 9 Awesome Literary Maps Every Book Lover Needs To See by Krystie Lee Yandoli.
DeGraff has maps for portions of these works:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – William Shakespeare
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Library of Babel – Jorge Luis Borges
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
Moby Dick, or, The Whale – Herman Melville
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave – Frederick Douglas
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass – Emily Dickinson
The Odyssey – Homer
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omclas – Ursula K. Le Guinn
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
A Report to the Academy – Franz Kafka
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Keep a copy of Plotted: A Literary Atlas on hand as inspiration.
At the same time, try your hand at capturing your spatial understanding of a narrative. Your reading experience, will be different.
Enjoy!