Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity (Playful Thinking)
By: Jaroslav Švelch
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A study of the gruesome game characters we love to beat—and what they tell us about ourselves. Sin…
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1. Dreamcatcher
By: Stephen King , William Olivier Desmond , Maria Teresa Marenco
3.66
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed … read more
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"Memory is the basis of every journey."-Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
"Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache."-Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
"He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home."-Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
"Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants."-Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
2. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.64
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more
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"What does the border look like?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"I hope to find Area X in Area X."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"The time for expeditions was over."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"Was this first contact, or last contact?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
3. Saga, Vol. 6 (Saga, #6)
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
After a dramatic time jump, the three-time Eisner Award winner for Best Continuing Series continues… read more
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4. Black House (The Talisman, #2)
By: Stephen King , Peter Straub
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories t… read more
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5. Hearts in Atlantis
By: Stephen King
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deepl… read more
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6. The Regulators
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.72
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more
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"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."-Stephen King, The Regulators
7. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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8. The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand Ursula K. Le G… read more
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9. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
By: Jason Schreier
4.75
Format: None pages,
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10. Saga, Vol. 7 (Saga, #7)
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
3.95
Format: 620 pages, Paperback
From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, "The War for Phang" is a… read more
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11. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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12. Saga, Vol. 4 (Saga, #4)
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Sagais the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they … read more
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13. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages,
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more
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14. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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15. Saga, Vol. 5 (Saga, #5)
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Multiple storylines collide in this cosmos-spanning new volume. While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk … read more
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16. In the Blink of an Eye
By: Francis Ford Coppola , Walter Murch
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
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17. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.21
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more
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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
18. Saga, Volume 9
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.56
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The multiple Eisner Award-winning series returns with a spacefaring adventure about fake news and g… read more
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"Most of the time, we don’t even realize we’ve live through something worth commemorating until long after it’s already ended."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 9
19. No Longer Human
By: Junji Ito
4.28
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a… read more
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"The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them."-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
"I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink."-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
"Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere."-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
"Los débiles temen la felicidad misma. Pueden hacerse daño en el algodón. A veces son heridos incluso por la felicidad"-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
20. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
By: Nghi Vo
4.18
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more
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"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
21. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Clara Törnvall
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more
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"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
22. Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity (Playful Thinking)
By: Jaroslav Švelch
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A study of the gruesome game characters we love to beat—and what they tell us about ourselves. Sin… read more
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- pop culture
- video games
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
23. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
24. The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
By: Bernie DeKoven
4.03
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
The return of the classic book on games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well… read more
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- video games
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- gaming
- games
"It is neither work nor play, purpose nor purposelessness that satisfies us. It is the dance between."-Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
"On the one hand we have the playing mind—innovative, magical, boundless. On the other is the gaming mind—concentrated, determined, intelligent. And on the hand that holds them both together we have t…"-Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
"Once again we return to the heart-warming realization that games are not life. Games are throwaway items. We play them only because we feel like playing them. They don't mean anything for real, and n…"-Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Mit Press)
25. The World Is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games
By: Cameron Kunzelman
4.26
Format: 198 pages, ebook
The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and scien… read more
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26. Ready Player Juan: Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games (Latinx Pop Culture)
By: Carlos Gabriel Kelly González
4.67
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Written for all gaming enthusiasts, this book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to docume… read more
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27. Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect
By: Aubrey Anable
3.91
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code Why do we so compulsively play v… read more
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- video games
28. A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames (Mit Press)
By: Brendan Keogh
4.35
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player … read more
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- video games
29. Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games
By: Amanda C. Cote
4.42
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Interviews with female gamers about structural sexism across the gaming landscape When the Nintend… read more
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30. Treacherous Play (Playful Thinking)
By: Marcus Carter
4.18
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The ethics and experience of “treacherous play”: an exploration of three games that allow deception… read more
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