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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 157 times as games)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,029 ratings — published 2017
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as games)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,374 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as games)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,435 ratings — published 2008
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as games)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,321,917 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as games)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,083,647 ratings — published 2008
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as games)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,387 ratings — published 2010
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as games)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,489 ratings — published 2004
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 120 times as games)
avg rating 4.57 — 15,024 ratings — published 2014
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 107 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,793,785 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 107 times as games)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,240,116 ratings — published 2009
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as games)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,411,009 ratings — published 2022
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 94 times as games)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,022 ratings — published 2003
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as games)
avg rating 4.49 — 8,076 ratings — published 2014
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as games)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,251 ratings — published 2021
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as games)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,722 ratings — published 2010
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as games)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,343 ratings — published 1966
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as games)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,148 ratings — published 2014
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as games)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,514 ratings — published 2010
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 62,839 ratings — published 2013
Monster Manual (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as games)
avg rating 4.56 — 6,318 ratings — published 2014
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 — 3,062 ratings — published 2001
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as games)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,114,601 ratings — published 2020
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as games)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,072 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 — 5,148 ratings — published 2013
Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as games)
avg rating 4.10 — 514 ratings — published 2008
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as games)
avg rating 3.97 — 924,968 ratings — published 2016
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as games)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,487,966 ratings — published 1985
Dungeon Masters Guide (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as games)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,327 ratings — published 1979
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as games)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,234 ratings — published 1988
Hoyle's Rules of Games (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as games)
avg rating 3.96 — 421 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 — 582 ratings — published 2012
Players Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as games)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,600 ratings — published 1978
Characteristics of Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as games)
avg rating 4.11 — 248 ratings — published 2012
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as games)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,741 ratings — published 2020
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 — 5,659 ratings — published 2002
Monster Manual (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as games)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,634 ratings — published 1977
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 44 times as games)
avg rating 3.53 — 369 ratings — published 2013
Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as games)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,147 ratings — published 2010
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 43 times as games)
avg rating 3.90 — 388 ratings — published 2008
Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying (Call of Cthulhu RPG)
by (shelved 42 times as games)
avg rating 4.46 — 8,227 ratings — published 1981
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as games)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,473 ratings — published 2011
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as games)
avg rating 3.84 — 361 ratings — published 2007
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as games)
avg rating 4.18 — 140,058 ratings — published 1983
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as games)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,836 ratings — published 1983
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as games)
avg rating 4.08 — 590 ratings — published 1978
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as games)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,296 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 — 19,736 ratings — published 2009
Man, Play and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as games)
avg rating 3.84 — 559 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 — 1,587 ratings — published 1993
“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
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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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