📚 Games

Books with games on their catalogue record, first published between 1899 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 21 works carrying the subject games in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 63,578 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chess fundamentals	José Raúl Capablanca	1921	62
	Chess for Dummies	James Eade	1996	25
	The Lewis Carroll Picture Book	Stuart Dodgson Collingwood	1899	18
	Fortnite	Josh Gregory	2019	16
	Minecraft	Nick Farwell	2013	12
	Minecraft Combat Handbook	Mojang	2013	12
	Dragon Ball Z	Eric Mylonas	2002	11
	Finite and infinite games	James P. Carse	1986	8
	Game Design	Marc Saltzman	1999	8
	Minecraft Guide to Enchantments and Potions	Stephanie Milton	2018	8
	The pig that wants to be eaten	Julian Baggini	2005	7
	Minecraft Blockopedia	Alex Wiltshire	2014	5
	Console Wars	Blake J. Harris	2014	5
	Minecraft The Survivors' Book of Secrets	Stephanie Milton	2016	5
	Win at chess	Fred Reinfeld	1945	4
	Theory of Fun for Game Design	Raph Koster	2004	4
	The Ultimate History of Video Games	Steven L. Kent	2001	3
	Kokology	Tadahiko Nagao	2003	2
	The Soviet Chess Primer	Ilya Maizelis	2014	2
	Waiting games	Bruce Hart	1981	1
	Planning In Notrump Contracts (Test Your Bridge Technique)	David Bird	2004	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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