Cover of Ready Player One

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

★★★★★

Finished
January 1, 2026
Published
2008
sci-fidystopian

Sci-Fi + Fantasy / Adventure + Romance + Coming of Age with 80s Nostalgia and Technology Geekery! LOVED Ready Player One!

I haven’t watched the movie; sometime, I’ll get to it. Ready Player One, the book, is fun. If you do the audiobook, it’s narrated by Whil Wheaton (“Hwill Wheaton” if your name is Stewie Griffin). It’s very much a coming-of-age story in line with Spielberg (ET) and John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) while set in a dystopian world reminscent of The Hunger Games or 1984.

Just read it.