Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc.

From the Broke and Bookish

Top Ten Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc.

 

A great one here. Mine are mainly SF/F/H related, though a few thriller and literary books crept in at the end.

 

 

If you like X-Men, then read: Myke Cole's Shadow Ops series. A combination of fantasy, military fiction and X-men type superheroes. Great stuff!

 

If you like The West Wing, then read: Star Trek: Articles of the Federation. A bit of a cheat here since the book is also based on a tv show and obviously if you aren't a Star Trek fan your mileage may vary but this is a great political sci-fi book in its own right.

 

If you like Star Trek, then read: David Weber's Honor Harrington series. A great military SF series with a kick-ass female character. Plus the first book in the series is free for Kindle!

 

If you like Dune, then read: David Louis Edelman's Jump 225 trilogy. Sold as Dune meets Wall Street, this is a very different animal to Frank Herbert's seminal novel, in terms of character and story, but it is definitely reminiscent in its use of world building. Plus it is a fantastically intricate sci-fi thriller that doesn't get nearly enough readers thrown its way!

 

If you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then read: Christopher Golden's The Shadow Saga. Vampires, magicians, demons, snark... Golden actually wrote some Buffy tie-in fiction around the time he released the first of this series. Plus they have recently been rereleased with new covers.

 

If you like 24, then read: Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series. A kick-ass assassin/spy, Gabriel Allon has all of the hard ass persona of Jack Bauer, with the added artistic soul of a painter. The series itself is a great mixture of art history, spy-fi and real-world politick.

 

If you like Disney's Alladin, then read: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. Sorcery, adventure, swash-buckling in an Arabian Nights type world.

 

If you like Revenge, then read: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The book that inspired the up-and-down in quality tv show, you should also read The Count of Monte Cristo because it is a fantastic book. Revenge, betrayal, love, murder, vampires, drugs, Paris, Venice, disguises, spies... What isn't to love?!

 

If you like Downton Abbey, then read: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. Set in the same era, Fall of Giants has much more an epic scope than the ITV series, following a number of families spread across Germany, Britain, the US and Russia in the lead-up to WW1.

 

If you like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, then read: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Dealing with similar concepts of mortality and the impact we have on those around us, Life After Life is a glorious exploration of the power of choice.

 

 

What books would you recommend to fans of certain tv shows and movies?