This is a list of books that I think are relevant for people interested in TTRPGs and wargaming that I have actually read and recommend. Work in progress.

Sci-fi/Fantasy

• “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
• “The High Crusade” by Poul Anderson
• “Three Hearts and Three Lions” by Poul Anderson
• “Foundation Trilogy” by Isaac Asimov
• “The New Atlantis” by Francis Bacon
• “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury
• “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burrows
• “Glory Road” by Robert Heinlein
• “Methuselah’s Children” by Robert Heinlein
• “Starship Troopers” by Robert Heinlein
• “Dune” by Frank Herbert
• “Black Colossus” by Robert E. Howard
• “The Phoenix on the Sword” by Robert E. Howard
• “The Queen of the Black Coast” by Robert E. Howard
• “The Tower of the Elephant” by Robert E. Howard
• “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis
• “Ill Met in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber
• “The Jewels in the Forest” by Fritz Leiber
• “Thieves’ House” by Fritz Leiber
• “Legend of the Galactic Heroes” by Yoshiki Tanaka
• “The Children of Hurin” by JRR Tolkien
• “The Hobbit” by JRR Tolkien
• “The Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien
• “The Silmarillion” by JRR Tolkien
• “Winds of Gath” by E.C. Tubbs

Other Genre Fiction

• “Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming
• “Brings the Lightning” by Peter Grant
• “Rocky Mountain Retribution” by Peter Grant

Literature

• “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan
• “Don Quixote” by Cervantes
• “The Napoleon of Notting Hill” by G.K. Chesterton
• “The Illiad” by Homer
• “The Odyssey” by Homer
• “The Betrothed” by Alessandro Manzoni
• “Wilhelm Tell” by Fredrich Schiller
• “Henry IV Part II” by William Shakespeare
• “Henry V” by William Shakespeare
• “Henry VI Parts I, II, III” by William Shakespeare
• “Richard III” by William Shakespeare
• “Aeneid” by Vergil
• “Beowulf”
• “Niblungied”
• “Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor”
• “The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”
• “Volsunga”

History

• “Military Memoirs of a Confederate” by General Edward Porter Alexander
• “Lost to the West” by Lars Brownworth
• “Two Years Before the Mast” by Richard Henry Dana
• “The Voyage of the Beagle” by Charles Darwin
• “Autobiography” by Benjamin Franklin
• “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon
• “Persian Fire” by Tom Holland
• “In the Shadow of the Sword” by Tom Holland
• “Histories” by Herodotus
• “Voyages to Vinland” from Icelandic Sagas
• “The Twelve Caesars” by Suetonius
• “The Discovery of Guiana” by Sir Walter Raleigh
• “Rough Riders” by Theodore Roosevelt
• “The History of the Peloponnesian War” by Thucydides
• “Account of His First Voyage” by Amerigo Vespucci

Philosophy

• “On War” by Carl von Clausewitz
• “Lost in the Cosmos” by Walker Percy
• “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli

Books About Games

• “Appendix N” by Jeffro Johnson
• “How to Win at D&D” by Jeffro Johnson