If you like to play [computer game], then try [book].
That’s the simple premise of a post from the imitable Powell’s Books, back in 2018. In Console-free camping, for a bunch of popular computer games, they recommend a book you might like.
The list, for posterity (non-commission, non-tracking links to Powell’s):
- If you like playing The Last of Us, then try Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
- If you like playing Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- If you like playing Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try World War Z by Max Brooks
- If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- If you like playing Final Fantasy, then try Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
- If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
- If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
- If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator
- If you like playing Mario Kart, then try The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia
- If you like playing Dark Souls, then try Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
- If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
- If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- If you like playing Fable, then try Young Elites by Marie Lu
- If you like playing Borderlands, then try Velocity by Chris Wooding
- If you like playing Dishonored, then try Airman by Eoin Colfer
- If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
- If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try The Naming by Alison Croggon
- If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
- If you like playing Bioshock, then try Dark Life by Kat Falls
- If you like playing Fallout, then try Razorland by Ann Aguirre
- If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks
- If you like playing Dragonage, then try Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
- If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- If you like playing Until Dawn, then try Ten by Gretchen McNeil
- If you like playing Sonic, then try Maximum Ride by James Patterson
- If you like playing Overwatch, then try Bluescreen by Dan Wells
- If you like playing Uncharted, then try Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
- If you like playing Pokemon, then try Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander
- If you like playing Mario Party, then try Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins