This guide contains several sub-guides to the game and an explanation to the mechanics. Accessible for those who only want minor hints as well as for those who want to be walked through the game.

The content is as follows:

• Book Mechanics - learn about the three types of choices in this game
• Spoiler Free Ending Guide - calculate the type of choices you need to make to access the different endings
• Preferences Cheat Sheet - if you need help understanding what type of book the customer is searching for but still want to figure out for yourself which title fits those preferences
• Spoiler Book Guide - directly discover which book equates to which ending
• Tone Spoilers - if you’d like to know how the mood and content changes between endings; helpful if there is content you are sensitive to and would like to avoid

Book Mechanics

In CornerBooks, there are three types of books you can choose which contribute to the five different endings.

1. The perfect book! The customer makes an enthusiastic purchase. Contributes to the good endings
2. The worst choice. Leaves the customer dissatisfied, unwilling to make the purchase. Contributes to the bad endings
3.  A mediocre pick. You managed to find some things that the customer likes but missed some aspects. If they buy the book, they will likely return it. Neither contributes to the good endings nor the bad endings  

Spoiler Free Ending Guide

• Fanfic End: Find five perfect books for all five customers
• Good End: Satisfy three to four customers. Can make two mistakes at most.
• Bad End: Suggest three to four worst books. Can have at most two satisfied/neutral customers
• Fail End: Select the worst picks for all five customers.
• Neutral End - Does not satisfy any of the other ending requirements. All picks can be mediocre or there can be a mix, provided that there are no more than two good picks and/or more than two bad picks

Preferences Cheat Sheet

• Gym Bro: likes historical fiction, romance, happy endings. Dislikes secrets, drama/peril, tragic endings
• Little Girl: likes fairies, mermaids, werewolves, harpies, etc. and things she finds funny. Dislikes stories, content that is happy
• Eccentric Grandma: likes muscular men, drama, and erotica. Dislikes slow-moving, undramatic stories
• Mysterious Stranger: their boy will only eat meat, started being a picky eater when eating treats during his third birthday party. The stranger has a fur allergy and refers to their boy as a ‘little shit’
• Rushed Man: ass hurts from long road trip. Nearly home, but has to pee so badly he can’t hold it any longer

Spoiler Book Guide

Gym Bro

• Good: Love and Laughter: A Regency Romance
• Neutral: Courtship on the Oregon Trail
• Bad: Lady Guinevere and Lancelot's Secret Affair

Young Girl

• Good: A Field Guide to Dangerous Encounters with the Fae 
• Neutral: Fairies to Unicorns: A Compendium of Sweet Mythical Creatures
• Bad: The Little Fairy and Other Princess Tales

Eccentric Grandma

• Good: Chatterley's Caged Night with a Hunk
• Neutral: Victoria's Tastefully Spicy Vineyard Encounter
• Bad: Paula's Perfect Wedding

Mysterious Stranger

• Good: Your Bearded Dragon and You
• Neutral: The Ultimate Guide To Caring for Your Furry Friend
• Bad: Picky Tots: Expanding Your Toddler's Palate and Other Parenting Woes

Rushed Man

• Good: Daytrip PocketGuide: All About Everything Near You
• Neutral: The Roadtrippers Ultimate Manual to Highways
• Bad: Atlases of the World

Tone Spoilers

Fanfic End: learn a secret about Diante. Warm, excitable, insulting (yet heartfelt) banter between friends. Diante expresses a desperation/exasperation that may appear insulting but ultimately comes from a place of love. Certain lines from the player and Diante could be read with romantic intent or understood as the love and warmth between friends

Good End: playful, warm, fun. Certain lines from Diante could be read with romantic undertones or understood as the love and warmth between friends

Bad End: dramatic and silly. The player has to read one of Diante’s books: oh the horror!

Fail End: serious, aggressive, and bleak. Diante verbally lashes out at the player, criticizing the choices made. Final statement can be understood as an end to the friendship or as Diante needing serious space and time to cool down.