A Book that Involves a Game

This list of titles fulfill the UBN 2024 category of a book that involves a game.

Updated October 25, 2024
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Armada : a novel
Cline, Ernest.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions, from the author of the worldwide phenomenon Ready Player One  "Exciting . . . mixes Star Wars, ...
Ender's game
Card, Orson Scott
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards For the perfect holiday gift for the reader on your list, pick up this special gift edition of one of the most beloved Science Fiction novels ever written. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the...
One word kill
Lawrence, Mark
Paper Book
A Goodreads Choice Award finalist. "I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer." - George R.R. Martin In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him...
The queen's gambit
Tevis, Walter S.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series. Eight year-old orphan...
Ready player one
Cline, Ernest
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."--USA Today * "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."--...
Red and me : my coach, my lifelong friend
Russell, Bill
Paper Book
"Bill Russell was the greatest team basketball player ever....[He] has produced a moving tribute to his friend and, in a larger sense, to friendship...
Sum it up 1,098 victories, a couple of irrelevant losses, and a life in perspective
Summitt, Pat Head
Paper Book
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's...
The tournament
Reilly, Matthew.
Paper Book
"A complete success...action fans and PBS types can share their enthusiasm" (Booklist, starred review) when a young Queen Elizabeth I is thrust into a gripping game of deception and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire in this edge-of-your-seat historical thriller from the New York...

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