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.
Paper Book
This is an exciting story of Beth, a brilliant chess player, and her eventual confrontation with the world champion, a Russian.
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...
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
Audiobook

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