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
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game--adapted to film starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford--is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war....
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...
Papi : my story
Ortiz, David
Paper Book
An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers and beloved personalities David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game.  As a key part of the Boston Red...
The queen's gambit
Tevis, Walter S.
Ebook
Netflix's most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman's journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.​ When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's placed in an orphanage in Mount...
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."--...
Sum it up 1,098 victories, a couple of irrelevant losses, and a life in perspective
Summitt, Pat Head
Audiobook
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...

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