30 Best

Games Books

1

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

2

Precipice

3

NPCs

4

...And Then You Die of Dysentery: Lessons in Adulting from the Oregon Trail

5

Overwatch #1: Train Hopper

6

Critical Failures III: A Storm of S-Words

7

Split the Party

8

Player's Handbook

9

The Phantom Castle

10

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics

11

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race

12

Tetris: The Games People Play

13

World of Warcraft Chronicle: Volume 1

14

Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

15

Ready Player One

16

Mockingjay

17

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

18

Catching Fire

19

The Hunger Games

20

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

21

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

22

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

23

Player's Handbook

24

Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals

25

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

26

Ender's Game

27

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

28

Hoyle's Rules of Games

29

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players