Maybe you will find Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier of interest. Been a little while but I enjoyed it as an audio book.

If you like DooM and are interested in the techy parts of it at all, there’s a great series called “Black Book” that has a volume dedicated to DooM. The author is a cool dude and has done one for Wolf3D, DooM, and others - https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

Raising the Bar (out of print for several years now so I recommend just finding yourself a .pdf) is a book about the development of Half-Life 2 and bits of Half-Life as well. Geoff Keighley has also written a few "The Final Hours" books about the development of Portal 2, Titanfall, and Half-Life: Alyx, though I think all are digital-only.

Are you interested in books that are based on game series rather than being strictly about gaming? If so you should absolutely read the Halo books, they're fantastic. Start with The Fall of Reach.

Another game series with a great set of books is Battletech/MechWarrior. The lore behind Battletech is crazy deep, I've watched so many YouTube videos about it and have only scratched the surface. I've only read one of the books but I want to get more of them.

I haven't read either, but the following two are on my list:

• John Romero actually has a book coming out in like 3 days called DOOM Guy: Life in First Person
• Mark Brown from Game Maker's Toolkit recommends Spelunky by Derek Yu (by the dev of, well, Spelunky).

If you enjoy science fiction, Ready Player One is super great. Do not judge it based off the movie. Quite different plots. Do skip Ready Player Two though.

Freeway Warrior by Joe Dever. An eternal classic.

Youtube’s Ashens has a couple of books about games published - Terrible Old Games You’ve Never Heard Of and Attack Of The Flickering Skeletons. If you know his style you can imagine the general tone.

both of Jason Schreier’s books - Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and Press Reset

I recently read “Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow” and I don’t recommend it.

Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd by Daniel Hardcastle.

There are the Boss Fight Books where each Book is about a single Game (MegaMan, Red Dead Redemption). The writing Style varies for each Book since they are written by different people.

This Game Analysis of Wario Land 4 is pretty interesting aswell. The focus is more on the Game Mechanics instead of personal experience.

There`s also this Dark Souls Book.

There is a Doom Novel Series aswell. I can`t really tell anything about them since I only read a few pages of the first book.

“The Ultimate Guide to Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest”

Couldn’t have beaten the game with it.

If you’re into lore expanding fiction, I really enjoy the Halo books:

• Fall of Reach
• Contact Harvest
• Ghosts of Onyx
• Forerunner trilogy (this some deep sci-fi)
• First Strike

I can't personally recommend them yet but I've read great things about the lock on "magazines" (they look more akin to coffee table books) and have a set in my cart that I'm going back and forth on

https://aaronareed.net/50-years-of-text-games/

Originally a blog, recently edited into a published book via Kickstarter.

I think it would be more worthwhile to learn a programming language. The great majority of gamers have no clue how games actually work, and it isn't that difficult to at least grasp the basics. It will completely change your perspective while gaming and you'll have a deeper understanding of features, design decisions, etc.