For me personally,
The unwomanly face of War by nobel prize winner Svetlana Aleksijevitj has been a huge inspiration source, as it contains countless interviews with a wide number of women who participated in WW2 and many of their accounts were very fascinating and inspiring, but I'd strongly recommend looking up non-fiction and historical/science books in general, for while there are lots of inspiring fiction out there the risk is always that in trying to emulate what made the original work, you instead end up with a derivative lesser copy. Probably the worst offender in this regard is the works of Tolkien, for even though The Lord of the Rings are rightfully regarded as a timeless masterpiece, so much bad and cliched fantasy has been created by people trying to copy him, and in some cases taking things that were bad in the original, like racist stereotypes or long-winded exposition dumps, and doubled down on them instead of trying to improve it in their own version.
So for anyone looking for creative inspiration, I'd advice you not to take direct inspiration from fiction in the same genre for risk of making it cliched and derivative, but instead to browse places like wikipedia and look up things from the real world that could serve as the basis for a story and then add fantastic elements onto it if you're writing sci-fi or fantasy. While I'm at it, I'd recommend
Rejected Princesses for some cool facts on real-life historical women.
I'd also recommend another non-fiction book called
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, which is a graphic novel where the author's cartoon version of himself explains the nature of comics, but a lot of the things he brings up,
like stylization versus realism and the pacing of a story, which are just as applicable to Adventure games as comics, and the reason my teachers made my class read it when I studied game design at university. It's a fun delight
to read, and you can easily find a free pdf version if you Google it, so I can't recommend this book enough for anyone seeking inspiration for writing and how to present their visuals. Yes, it's really that good.