Perfect Video Game and
Book Pairings

Sometimes you play a video game and it reminds you of the intense connection and emotion of a favourite novel. Sometimes you read a book and wish you could wander off and explore the world it created. This is a list of the perfect video game and book pairings.

We're not interested in books that were based on video games or video games that were based on a book. No, we want the deep cuts where a video game has stumbled into the same narrative world as that novel you tell everyone about. Or, maybe, a book that always reminds you of a video game you've played.

While researching the list I even found some articles written on this exact topic. Like this blog "The unexpected joy of pairing books with video games" where the image above comes from (Mica Murphy/Penguin), and Book and Video Game Pairings by Mackenzie Moody on the Colour Me Read.

This list includes 17 games from the last 19 years, with 1,197 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to play a game then read a book. We break them down into the following areas:

• Book Pairing: Earthsea Saga by Ursula K Le Guin
• Book Pairing: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
• Book Pairing: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• Book Pairing: The Last Wild by Piers Torday
• Book Pairing: Moss Flower by Brian Jacques
• Book Pairing: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• Book Pairing: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Book Pairing: Republic by Plato
• Book Pairing: Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw
• Book Pairing: Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Book Pairing: Lore by Alexandra Bracken
• Book Pairing: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Book Pairing: Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
• Book Pairing: Quarantine by Jim Crace
• Book Pairing: Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
• Book Pairing: The Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce