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The stories in the card game are from Pathfinder Adventure Paths (Runelords, Shackles, and Wrath. You can read these, but they read like adventures to run someone through, not like novels.
The characters in the game are based of Pathfinder's iconic heroes. If you search Paizo's blog for each name, you can get a full backstory on the iconics. There aren't any novels featuring them, but the Pathfinder comics line features stories with the iconics.
If you want novels, there's the Pathfinder Tales line. They don't feature most of the characters or the stories of the card game, but they can give you a feel for the world. And one of the characters from the inquisitor class deck is actually from the novels!
There are many, many books set in the Pathfinder Universe. For a book "based on the card game" you'd probably need to buy a whole adventure-path for the RPG, which is an expensive way of doing things if you're not going to be role-playing.
The characters in Adventure Paths (so far) are the iconics - there are comics for them, but typically not novels.
Class Decks have a broader scope of characters, but again (mostly) not appearing in the novels.
Personally, I really like Liar's Blade by Tim Pratt, and Death's Heretic by James L Sutter - that one has the added bonus that the lead character is playable with the Inquisitor Class Deck
also, check out the web-fiction - big library of free, online short-stories - http://paizo.com/pathfinder/tales/serial
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I came to the Pathfinder Universe via this game too, and found reading the RPG adventure paths really a lot of fun. Found it enchanced my games too.
I collected all the "Meet the Iconics" stories and put them in a PDF under the Community Use Policy. Then there's the Golarion Deities (blessings) guide document that provides some general information about the deities featured in the PACG games. Finally there's the Adventure Guides themselves which provide a story for each of the PACG games through a series of prologues and epilogues for each scenario.
You can find all of these in the Community Use Registry here on Paizo (the files are hosted on BoardgameGeek).
If you like the stories in the card game, I highly suggest reading the Adventure Paths they're based on. Given the nature of the card game, the stories have to be sort of abbreviated, whereas they can be fully fleshed out in a 96-page Adventure Path. :-)
Yes, it'd be lovely if Paizo and Lone Shark picked this up for the card game. Perhaps that's what the audio guides are for?
I used the Adventure Paths when writing the Adventure Guide for Wrath of the Righteous. The Season of the Righteous refers to events from the "King of Chaos" which features Count Jeggare and Radovan searching for the Lexicon of Paradox. I made mention of Gad and Yath from "Worldwound Gambit" in my Adventure Guide, but I don't know if Season of the Righteous uses the Worldwound Gambit.
FYI for Paizo - I first got involved with Pathfinder courtesy of the Pathfinder Tales novels you distribute at Steve & Gord's Bonebat Comedy Festival of Horrors hosted annually in Seattle, WA. If you like all the free volunteer work I'm doing supporting PACG, please continue sponsoring Bone Bat and providing the novels for the festival grab bag!
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PS - I purchased digital copies of the Adventure Path for WotR and "King of Chaos". You can totally see it on my download page. ;-)