The Games We played: The Golden Age of Board and Table Games

Margaret Hofer

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble

Stefan Fatsis

The Immortal Game: A History of Chess

David Shenk

The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers, from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit

Philip E. Orbanes

Board Games in 100 Moves

Ian Livingstone

Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

Annelise Heinz

Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented

Tanya Lee Stone

Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

Marcus du Sautoy

The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

Tim Clare

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

David Kushner

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

Maria Konnikova

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games―A Comedian's Memoir of Gaming and Comedy, From Nintendo to The Tonight Show

Mike Drucker

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment

Jason Schreier

The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief

Alan Connor

The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

A.J. Jacobs

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them

Adrienne Raphel

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Anna Shechtman

Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us about Life

Jonathan Kay

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

Simon Parkin

The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture

Daniel Goldberg

Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More

Dustin Hansen

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture

Harold Goldberg

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

Jane McGonigal

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

Tom Bissell

It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan

Tristan Donovan

Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry

Howard Scott Warshaw

The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry

David Polfeldt

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Jason Schreier

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Jason Schreier

Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It

David M. Ewalt