Books recommended by Brett, their authors and parenthetically the games with which they were associated:

The Impostor by Javier Cercas (MYST)

City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (Pokemon Red/Blue)

The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines)

Delilah Dirk series by Tony Cliff, starts with Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (Tomb Raider)

Bullsh*t Jobs by David Graeber (BioShock)

Timothy Hallinan’s “Junior Bender” series, beginning with Crashed (Thief: The Dark Project)

11/22/63 by Stephen King (Chrono Trigger)

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner (DOOM)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle (Eternal Darkness)

Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd Jones (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

What I Carry by Jennifer Longo (Shenmue)

Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia (Resident Evil 4)

In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (Devil May Cry)

Red by Linda Nagata (Halo)

A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (Civilization III)

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry (Game: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (Game: Ratchet & Clank)

Discworld (series) by Terry Pratchett (Populous)

The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore (Baldur’s Gate)

“Joe Kurtz” trilogy: Hardcase/Hard Freeze/Hard as Nails by Dan Simmons (Grand Theft Auto III)

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Animal Crossing)

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells (Final Fantasy VI)

The Murderbot Diaries (series) by Martha Wells (SW: Republic Commando)

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time)

The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow (Grand Theft Auto III)