Nonfiction About Video Games and Virtual Reality
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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Jane McGonigal
3.79 avg rating — 8,270 ratings 3. 
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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Blake J. Harris
3.97 avg rating — 11,820 ratings 
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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David Kushner
4.29 avg rating — 19,678 ratings 
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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
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Chris Kohler
3.99 avg rating — 440 ratings 
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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James Paul Gee
3.89 avg rating — 1,319 ratings 13. 
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
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Harold Goldberg
3.59 avg rating — 885 ratings 14. 
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
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Zoe Quinn
4.09 avg rating — 1,849 ratings 15. 
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
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Steven L. Kent
4.14 avg rating — 2,961 ratings 
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High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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Rusel DeMaria
3.94 avg rating — 241 ratings 
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Death by Video Game: Tales of obsession from the virtual frontline
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Simon Parkin
3.59 avg rating — 610 ratings 21. 
Native on the Net: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age
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Kyra Landzelius
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 21. 
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (Playful Thinking Series)
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Jesper Juul
3.63 avg rating — 352 ratings 
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The Game Console: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox
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Evan Amos
4.36 avg rating — 383 ratings 
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Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
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Tom Boellstorff
3.61 avg rating — 390 ratings 27. 
Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
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Julian Dibbell
3.66 avg rating — 293 ratings 
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Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds
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Michael Nitsche
3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings 38. 
The History of Nintendo (1980-1991) - The Game & Watch
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Florent Gorges
3.94 avg rating — 83 ratings 38. 
Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time
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Bill Loguidice
3.76 avg rating — 126 ratings 
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The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution 3.68 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers
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Brian Ashcraft
3.65 avg rating — 179 ratings 43. 
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
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Jason Schreier
4.05 avg rating — 7,655 ratings 44. 
Embed with Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers
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Cara Ellison
4.04 avg rating — 281 ratings 
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Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (Cultural Studies Cinema
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Anna Everett
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings 46. 
The Medical Librarian's Guide to Natural Mental Health
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William Jiang
4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Video Games FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Games and Gaming Culture
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Mark J.P. Wolf
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 46. 
The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more (Video Games Book)
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Gary Plowman
3.96 avg rating — 71 ratings 46. 
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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Gary Plowman
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings 46. 
The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more
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Gary Plowman
3.96 avg rating — 71 ratings 46. 
Inside Video Game Creation: Development Experts Share Their Stories
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Todd Mitchell
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer
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Matt Hackett
4.02 avg rating — 177 ratings 46. 
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
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Tore C. Olsson
4.28 avg rating — 1,105 ratings 59. 
Video Game Addiction: Disorder or Deviance?
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Trey J. Hunt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Empires of EVE: A History of the Great Wars of EVE Online
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Andrew Groen
4.22 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 
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Understanding #Gamergate: Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian and the Social Justice Warriors
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Scott Cameron
2.55 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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The Video Games Guide: 1,000+ Arcade, Console and Computer Games, 1962-2012
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Matt Fox
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 66. 
Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More (Game On, 1)
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Dustin Hansen
3.96 avg rating — 622 ratings 66. 
Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them
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Jamie Madigan
4.04 avg rating — 463 ratings 
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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
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Dave Grossman
3.71 avg rating — 334 ratings 70. 
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Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything
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Daniel Goldberg
3.85 avg rating — 1,592 ratings 75. 
Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds
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J.C. Herz
3.50 avg rating — 141 ratings 
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A Brief History Of Video Games: From Atari to Xbox One
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Richard Stanton
3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings 75. 
How to Talk about Videogames (Volume 47) (Electronic Mediations)
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Ian Bogost
3.65 avg rating — 236 ratings 
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Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade
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Carly A. Kocurek
3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings 80. 
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Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
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Bonnie Nardi
3.69 avg rating — 157 ratings 86. 
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
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Chris Kohler
3.99 avg rating — 440 ratings 88. 
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iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing Up
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Janell Hofmann
3.85 avg rating — 125 ratings 91. 
Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation and the Visionaries Who Conquered the World of Video Games
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Reiji Asakura
3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings 91. 
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games
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Margaret Mackey
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
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Jeremy Bailenson
3.91 avg rating — 392 ratings 
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The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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Blake J. Harris
4.05 avg rating — 1,250 ratings 99. 
A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
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Jesper Juul
3.50 avg rating — 177 ratings 