What to Read After Homo Ludens
Readers who loved Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Homo Ludens is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Homo Ludens
Man, Play, and Games
Revolt of the Masses
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Theory of Fun for Game Design
Hamlet on the Holodeck
The Grasshopper
The Revolt of the Masses
Chris Crawford on game design
Challenges for Game Designers
Finite and Infinite Games
The Art of Game Design
Play
Twisty Little Passages
Fundamentals of Game Design (Game Design and Development Series)
The Sacred and the Profane
Truth and Method
Myth and Meaning
The Medium Is the Massage
Nostalgia (New Directions Paperbook)
The Lower Depths
Phenomenology of Perception
Against Method
Tristes Tropiques
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history