Reddit reviews Reading the Maya Glyphs, Second Edition

Well, you chose a complicated subject of study! Maya glyphs are mostly written in classic Cholan, wich is a dead language... so, first you need to have a basic understanding of at least Yukatek (modern) maya, it's the very basic requirement to study maya glyphs.

Once you have the basic understanding on Maya as a language, you can start using this

BEGINNER'S VISUAL CATALOG OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS by Alexandre Tokovinine

http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/catalog/Tokovinine_Catalog.pdf

And then use a somehow more advanced book like this

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Maya-Glyphs-Second-Michael/dp/0500285535

You can find a lot in our booklist- I'll single out some from there that focus on writing and add some more.

• Breaking the Maya Code by Michael Coe is the example of what popular history can be. It's a thrilling account of the decipherment of Maya writing, which Dr. Coe played a big part in.
  
  
• Reading the Maya Glyphs by Coe and Mark VanStone is a sort of workbook companion to Coe's history. It teaches the fundamentals of Maya writing and is handy guide for further studies.
  
  
• Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube is less explicitly about the glyphs and more about what we can learn from them. Still, Martin and Grube are skilled epigraphers who reveal the history of several important city states with emphasis on how archaeologists and epigraphers work.
  
  
• Maya Decipherment is David Stuart's blog and a great thing to follow. Simon Martin and Stephen Houston frequently contribute, as do a handful of others. Lots of great articles of various topics,
  
  
• FAMSI has a great selection of resources on all kinds of Mesoamerican writing. Josserand & Hopkins' Glyph Workbook is generally better than Coe & VanStone's, if less official. The Kerr Vase Database is fun to look through, and the searchable dictionaries are useful.
  
  
• Corpus of Maya Heirogylphic Inscriptions from Harvard's Peabody Museum is a handy database that's easy to browse and nice to have on hand when other books/articles reference a monument. Sometimes has translations, almost always has transcriptions.
  
  
  
  

Just symbols and symbology, generally?

A specific set of symbols, like Mayan glyphs or graffiti tags?

A fictional story involving symbols and codes?