If you’re looking to fill your shelves with some of the best books about video games from this year, The Guardian‘s Tola Onanuga has got you covered:

If you’re a gamer after something more in-depth than coffee table books, here are some of the most thought-provoking reads about gaming.

The journalist chose to honor six titles that neatly slot into two distinct groups. There’s a trio of tomes about game history, including Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play by Meagan Marie, Boss Fight Books: Shovel Knight by David L. Craddock, and The Evolution of Gamepads: A History of Video Game Controllers by Kevin Harbin). And there’s three more titles about how gamers connect with games in 2018, including Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games by Walt Williams, Playing With Feelings: Video Games and Affect by Aubrey Anable, and Woke Gaming (which was edited by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard).