Has Games In It

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Updated August 6, 2025
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The bad ones
Albert, Melissa
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! Bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with The Bad Ones, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history Goddess, goddess,...
Cat + gamer. Volume 1
Nadatani, Wataru
Paper Book
Her coworkers can't quite figure her out - she doesn't talks about her personal life, doesn't work overtime and never joins them for happy hour. Is she antisocial? No, she's rushing home to play video games! One day, a stray cat is found in the parking lot, and before Riko knows it, the cat has...
Dungeon crawler Carl
Dinniman, Matt
Paper Book
You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what's worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic, intergalactic...
Dungeons and drama
Boyce, Kristy
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER . When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks! A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris-her dream is to be a...
Find him where you left him dead
Simmons, Kristen
Paper Book
AT DAWN HE'LL BE GONE AND YOU'LL BE HERE FOREVER. Kristen Simmons's masterful breakout horror novel that's "Jumanji but Japanese-inspired" (Kendare Blake) about estranged friends playing a deadly game in a nightmarish folkloric underworld. This edition includes a beautiful...
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...
How to dungeon master parenting : a guidebook for gamifying the child-rearing quest, leveling up your skills, and raising future adventurers
Mazzanoble, Shelly
Paper Book
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, Parenting & Family 2025 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) bronze medalist, Parenting 2024 Zibby Awards, Best Book for Parents selection 2024 Foreword ...
The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times Bestseller.Katniss Everdeen is a 16-yearold girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what was once the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. Now the Capitol demands one boy and one...
Immortal longings
Gong, Chloe
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Chloe Gong's adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is a "smart, imaginative, and brutal" (Wesley Chu, New York Times bestselling author of The War Arts Saga) collision of...
The no-girlfriend rule
Randall, Christen
Paper Book
An instant USA TODAY bestseller Four starred reviews! Julie Murphy meets Heartstopper with a D&D twist in this "magical, heartwarming" (Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She Gets the Girl) queer romance about a...
Polybius
Armstrong, Collin
Paper Book
"If you're a fan of Stephen King and Stranger Things, then this is the book for you." --Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend...
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.
Rabbits : a novel
Miles, Terry
Paper Book
A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL * "A wild ride . . . impossible to put down."--Publishers...
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...
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...
Single Player
Tai, Tara
Paper Book
Cat Li cares about two things: video games and swoony romances. The former has meant there's not been much of the latter in her (real) life, but when she lands her dream job writing the love storylines for Compass Hollow - the next big thing in games - she knows it's all been worth it. Then she...
Sunrise on the reaping
Collins, Suzanne
Paper Book
The unforgettable fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch's story. Feature film scheduled for November 2026. #1 USA Today Bestseller * #1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller * A New York Times Editors'...
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Zevin, Gabrielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Sam and Sadie--two college friends, often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It...

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