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TIDY THE LIBRARY: The Original Card Game for Book Lovers
TIDY THE LIBRARY: The Original Card Game for Book Lovers
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New categories coming soon… keep your eyes peeled for Tidy The Library: Romance and Horror & Sci-Fi editions.
Awarded Highly Commended at the Gift of the Year Awards 2025.
Warning: this game is accidentally educational.
Which came first - The Handmaid's Tale or The Hobbit?
Do you really know Twilight from Dracula?
Prepare for the ultimate test of your literary knowledge with Tidy the Library: the equally fun and infuriating card game for book lovers!
Be the first to return all of your books to the shelf by taking it in turns to place your book in order of publication date. But be warned: the game gets harder as the shelf becomes more full, and watch out for those pesky library cards…
From library fines to unsolicited book swaps, life isn't always peaceful in the library!
The details:
- 1-6 Players
- Ages 12+
- Portable, easy to travel with game
- A fast-paced fun game for the whole family, and even those who haven’t picked up a book in years!
- The game can be modified to accommodate younger players or those less confident in their book knowledge to make it fun and inclusive for everyone.
Find the Tidy the Library game guide here.
A fun quick game, we hope that they come out with genre based expansion packs. Great for two or more players and different ages. Simple instructions and set up/clean up
Was a Father's day gift. The recipient loved it. Was a good game to play.
I bought the game originally for me and my husband to play on holiday. However I took it with me when my sister and I had to dash over to Ireland for a night. It was tremendous fun. We enjoyed it so much I bought a second game for her. I'm hoping at some point you'll have time to add some expansion packs. Many thanks for such a brilliant game.
I have bought three copies of this game for various friends and family, including some of the librarians at University of Nottingham who played it to finish off a team meeting. Absolutely love it, thank you!
We played it just as a chronological game without using the Library cards. We thought they complicated the game unnecessarily. The instructions were also difficult to read as the print was too small. A white leaflet or even a white card, printed in a good sized black print would have been better. I also dislike the way the cards have to be split into 2 piles in order to put them back into the box. For this it would have been better to have a lidded box, or make the box deaper and smaller so they fit in one pile. Even better would be a little bag like the one my grandson got with another card game.
This aside, we enjoyed the game and were astonished that my 12 year old grandson did so well - he won! We will certainly play it again.
