FiveBooks is this neat site whose tagline is “The best five books on everything.” Basically, they pick a subject matter expert, and that person talks about five books that cover that subject. Tom Chatfield picked FiveBooks on games, and A Theory of Fun was one of them, alongside classics like Homo Ludens and Flow. Quite nice company!
While you are there, check out Aleks Krotoski’s five books about the Web; and props to Julian Dibbell, who gets a book on each list!
Between the two lists, there’s only one book I haven’t read — and it’s the one on sports. Hmm.