A Place for All My Books

You have more books than shelf space, a social battery that runs out fast, and an apartment that needs serious organizing. A Place for All My Books is a cozy competitive strategy game about the most satisfying kind of chaos: gathering, sorting, and stacking your book collection room by room until everything finally has a home.

Every turn you pick a spot in your apartment. Gather the top books from a few piles into one tidy stack, shuffle a stack across the room, curl up and read one on your nightstand, or rest to recharge. Staying in fills your social battery. Spending it lets you leave the house for the village bookstore, the library, and the shoppes, where the best finds are waiting and your backpack can only hold so much. The trick is timing those trips so you come home with exactly what your shelves need.

The rules are friendly and the table stays calm, but the decisions get delicious. Stacks top out at six books, Little Projects reward you for arranging things just so, and the first player to finish a Major Accomplishment gets the better prize. Playing alone? Race Penelope Eveready, the town's very extroverted new book lover, in the built-in solo mode.

• 130 full-color book tiles with illustrated covers and engraved spines, plus a cloth bag to draw them from
• 4 apartment boards, a double-sided village board, 4 wood meeples, and social battery trackers
• 55 Little Project cards, 42 Other Neat Stuff cards, and Major Accomplishment cards and tokens for a different set of goals every game
• Solo mode with its own rival deck
• Designed by Alex Cutler and Michael Mihealsick, illustrated by Naomi Lord, and backed by a $1M Kickstarter campaign
• 1 to 4 players, ages 10+, about 15 to 20 minutes per player