HISTORIES
The first books that really impacted me were ones of various culture's mythology.
It made me travel through time and space, dreaming about great stories, and gave me the first notions of what were a civilization, a tradition, a belief, and an ideal...
I spent, since I was born, a tremendous amount of time, learning stuff about cultures, history, across the globe. I think that constantly changing my point of view, culturally conditioned by the land where I grew up and the people that were around me, is a good way to have new ideas, and develop my imaginary.
I always want to develop my culture, to better understand different people's ways of thinking.
And that's what I like : people's history. From ancient to modern history ( even if I have a crush on Classical era and Middle Ages ), across the globe, I try to know the most I can, to better unterstand the world I live on, for knowing the past helps to understand the present, stuff like that.
Of course, in that case, civilizations history go along with light-sociology, philosophy, and theology, disciplines that are pretty interesting too, especially when applied to medias creation.
3 RELATED GAMES THAT INSPIRED ME :
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Crusader Kings II
Europea Universalis IV