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Stories Featuring Games or Contests

Description: Books about games or contests or that use a game motif.

Rank Title Author Added

1

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,597 members

1,284 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, Moomin_Mama, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,892 members

127 reviews

4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Terry Pratchett

10,225 members

143 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse

6,911 members

100 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, spiphany

5

by Chris Van Allsburg

3,195 members

225 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ManWithAnAgenda

6

A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast of Crows / A Dance with Dragons

by George R. R. Martin

2,822 members

33 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Susan Cooper

700 members

11 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Dilara86, spiphany

8

by Stephen King

5,236 members

119 reviews

4

Member: Moomin_Mama

9

by Stefan Zweig

4,051 members

117 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany

10

The Running Man

by Stephen King

3,860 members

76 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

11

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

by Chris Grabenstein

3,249 members

124 reviews

4

Member: aethercowboy

12

by Bernard Malamud

2,039 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

13

The Homeward Bounders

by Diana Wynne Jones

1,044 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

by Clint McElroy

1,038 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Sleeping Dragon

by Joel Rosenberg

895 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

16

Interstellar Pig

by William Sleator

719 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: Moomin_Mama

17

by Sheri S. Tepper

661 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: spiphany

18

by Melissa Scott

368 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

19

Gameplayers of Zan

by M. A. Foster

266 members

6 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

20

The Destiny Dice

by David Bischoff

104 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Moomin_Mama

21

Baseball's Best Short Stories

by Paul D. Staudohar

79 members

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

22

Dungeon of Doom

by Franklin W. Dixon

68 members

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

Homerooms and Hall Passes

by Tom O'Donnell

58 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

Homerooms and Hall Passes: Heroes Level Up

by Tom O'Donnell

16 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

103,029 members

887 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Dilara86,ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Orson Scott Card

41,388 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: jeffza,ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,673 members

1,270 reviews

4.1

28

by Charlie Huston

489 members

28 reviews

3.8

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Started: sturlington
July 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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