Are You Game?

🎮🎲From videogames and virtual reality to sports, board games, and toys, play is an essential human joy🃏🧸

Pick up one of these books and answer the question: are you game?

Updated February 19, 2026
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Game on
Glass, Seressia.
Paper Book
Samara Reynolds has built a large following as a gamer under an anonymous screenname, and uses her skills as a DEIA consultant to advocate for equal representation in video games. When she posted a video critiquing the popular game Legendsfall, she knew she'd get a reaction from her fans, but the...
Toy time! : from hula hoops to he-man to hungry hungry hippos: a look back at the most- beloved toys of decades past
Byrne, Christopher.
Ebook
What was your favorite childhood toy? Do you have fond memories of fighting unseen enemies with your G.I. Joe action figures, demolishing fleets of vehicles with your Tonka Toy Trucks, or Karate-chopping imaginary street thugs with your Teenage Mutant Ninja...
Don't know tough
Cranor, Eli 1988-
Paper Book
In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the...
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."--Entertainment...
Cards on the table a Hercule Poirot mystery
Christie, Agatha 1890-1976
Paper Book
Around the world in eighty games : from tarot to tic-tac-toe, catan to snakes and ladders, a mathematician unlocks the secrets of the world's greatest games
Du Sautoy, Marcus
Paper Book
A "fun" and "unexpected" (The Economist) global tour of the world's greatest games and the mathematics that underlies themĀ  Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?...
Scorecasting : the hidden influences behind how sports are played and games are won
Moskowitz, Tobias J. (Tobias Jacob) 1971-
Audiobook
In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are...
Everything to play for : how videogames are changing the world
Did, Marijam
Paper Book
An insider's account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist...
Role Playing
Yardley, Cathy.
Paper Book
From Cathy Yardley, author of Love, Comment, Subscribe, comes an emotional rom-com about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story. Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a...
The wishing game : a novel
Shaffer, Meg
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel....

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