International Games Month for Teens

Books with all the gaming vibes to read alongside International Games Month (November).

Updated October 23, 2023
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Girl gone viral
Ahmadi, Arvin
Paper Book
"Smart, timely and riveting."--The New York Times Book Review Perfect for fans of Warcross and Black Mirror, Girl Gone Viral is the inventive and timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom. For seventeen-year-old Opal...
Don't hate the player
Nedd, Alexis
Paper Book
"Refreshingly voice-y, wildly smart, and genuinely hilarious." - Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue From an exciting new voice comes a funny and heartfelt YA romance set in the world of competitive gaming, perfect for...
Don't read the comments
Smith, Eric
Paper Book
Divya Sharma is a queen. Or she is when she's playing Reclaim the Sun, the year's hottest online game. Divya -- better known as popular streaming gamer D1V -- regularly leads her #AngstArmada on quests through the game's vast and gorgeous virtual universe. But for Divya, this is...
1:35 A.M.
Cawthon, Scott
Paper Book
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...For Delilah, Stanley, and Devon, being left behind is practically a way of life. Orphaned from a young age and recently...
Gumdrop Angel
Cawthon, Scott
Paper Book
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night... A string of bad luck you can't seem to shake... for Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, it's an all too familiar feeling. Repulsed...
Slay
Morris, Brittney
Paper Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019! "Gripping and timely." --People "The YA debut we're most excited for this year." --Entertainment Weekly "A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that'll keep you...
Wildcard
Lu, Marie
Paper Book
For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. And teenage hacker Emika Chen has found herself caught up in a conflict that could change the world. Warcross creator, Hideo Tanaka, wants to use to the game to control peoples' thoughts and feelings...
Chaotic good
Gardner, Whitney
Paper Book
Cosplay, comic shops, and college applications collide in this new novel from the author of You're Welcome, Universe, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Noelle Stevenson! Cameron's cosplay creations are finally starting to earn her attention--attention she hopes to use...
Genius : the game
Gout, Leopoldo
Paper Book
"Genius is a breakthrough novel for young adults and others who love this mind-expanding genre. Genius is exciting, provocative, fresh, innovative, and smart, smart, smart. Please don't wait until Genius is a cult classic to read it." -- James Patterson, #1 New York...
Minecraft
Monster, Sf ?R.
Paper Book
The first Graphic Novel in the world of Gaming Phenomenon Minecraft! Tyler is your everyday kid whose life is changed when his family has to move from the town he's always known. Thankfully, Tyler has a strong group of friends forever linked in the world of Minecraft! Tyler,...
Adventures in Minecraft
O'Hanlon, Martin
Paper Book
Learn valuable programming skills while building your own Minecraft adventure! If you love playing Minecraft and want to learn how to code and create your own mods, this book was designed just for you. Working within the game itself, you'll learn to set up and run your own local...
Tales of an 8-bit kitten : lost in the nether
Cube Kid (Author of fan fiction)
Paper Book
Best-selling author, Cube Kid, introduces readers to a kitten named Eeebs who lives some incredible adventures in the world of Minecraft. Fans of Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior will find some of the emblematic characters from this series in the Nether. A Minecraft Movie...
In real life
Doctorow, Cory
Paper Book
From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang comes a New York Times-bestselling graphic novel that takes a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. "A lovely graphic novel for gamer girls of all...
Warcross
Lu, Marie
Paper Book
For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. When Emika hacks into Warcross, she is shocked when she gets a...
Player's handbook
Mearls, Mike
Paper Book
Create heroic characters for the world's greatest roleplaying game.   The Player's Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration...
Reboot
Tintera, Amy.
Paper Book
In this fast-paced dystopian thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Amy Tintera, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Legend, and Divergent, a seventeen-year-old girl returns from death as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier . . . until she is...
The eye of minds
Dashner, James
Paper Book
From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes the first book in the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series, an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure trilogy that includes The Rule of Thoughts and The Game of Lives. <...
Level up
Yang, Gene Luen.
Paper Book
Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. ANew York TimesNotable Children's Book (Young Adult) for 2011 Smackdown! Video Games vs. Medical...
Brainjack
Falkner, Brian
Paper Book
Sam, a teenage computer genius, takes up an invitation to join a secret online convention for the best hackers in the world. The location for the convention? The White House. But Sam finds out that it is really a challenge to find expert hackers to protect the country. Sam is thrown into a world of...
Walking in two worlds
Kinew, Wab
Paper Book
An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series. In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous...

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