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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as games)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,268 ratings — published 2003
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as games)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,793 ratings — published 2017
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as games)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,425 ratings — published 2008
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as games)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,313,437 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as games)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,019,588 ratings — published 2008
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as games)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,374 ratings — published 2010
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as games)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,478 ratings — published 2004
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as games)
avg rating 4.57 — 14,953 ratings — published 2014
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 108 times as games)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,208,167 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 107 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,765,998 ratings — published 2010
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as games)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,390,217 ratings — published 2022
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 93 times as games)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,019 ratings — published 2003
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as games)
avg rating 4.49 — 8,040 ratings — published 2014
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as games)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,155 ratings — published 2021
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as games)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,716 ratings — published 2010
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as games)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,279 ratings — published 1966
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as games)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,105 ratings — published 2014
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 62,517 ratings — published 2013
Monster Manual (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as games)
avg rating 4.56 — 6,286 ratings — published 2014
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as games)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,511 ratings — published 2010
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as games)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,042 ratings — published 2001
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,100,165 ratings — published 2020
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as games)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,043 ratings — published 1938
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as games)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,130 ratings — published 2013
Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as games)
avg rating 4.11 — 513 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as games)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,482,236 ratings — published 1985
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as games)
avg rating 3.97 — 906,222 ratings — published 2016
Dungeon Masters Guide (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as games)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,324 ratings — published 1979
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as games)
avg rating 4.28 — 81,608 ratings — published 1988
Hoyle's Rules of Games (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as games)
avg rating 3.96 — 420 ratings — published 1946
Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 583 ratings — published 2012
Players Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as games)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,595 ratings — published 1978
Characteristics of Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as games)
avg rating 4.11 — 247 ratings — published 2012
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as games)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,642 ratings — published 2002
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as games)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,701 ratings — published 2020
Monster Manual (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as games)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,632 ratings — published 1977
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 44 times as games)
avg rating 3.53 — 366 ratings — published 2013
Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as games)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,138 ratings — published 2010
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 43 times as games)
avg rating 3.90 — 381 ratings — published 2008
Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying (Call of Cthulhu RPG)
by (shelved 42 times as games)
avg rating 4.46 — 8,228 ratings — published 1981
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as games)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,425 ratings — published 2011
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as games)
avg rating 4.18 — 139,060 ratings — published 1983
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as games)
avg rating 3.84 — 360 ratings — published 2007
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as games)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,821 ratings — published 1983
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as games)
avg rating 4.08 — 581 ratings — published 1978
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as games)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,291 ratings — published 2003
How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 35 times as games)
avg rating 3.62 — 495 ratings — published 2011
Renaissance (Assassin's Creed, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as games)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,639 ratings — published 2009
Man, Play and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as games)
avg rating 3.85 — 554 ratings — published 1958
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as games)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,586 ratings — published 1993
“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”
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“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
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