The regularities of the donor-acceptor interaction of nucleic acid bases and some of their derivatives with the strong acceptor 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) in thin amorphous films at 77 K were studied using CJV and visible spectroscopy. Purine and pyrimidine bases are shown to form charge transfer TCNQ complexes whose band energies hv,, = Zp -EA -(H* -H") are linearly dependent of the donor ionization potential I,. Calculated differences between the interaction energies of uncharged molecules and ion radicals, AE = 3.0 eV, are in good agreement with experimental variations of the complex dissociation energies in the ground and excited states, (H* -H") = 2.73 eV. Annealing of the films of complexes containing cytosine, 1-methylcytosine, uracil, and caffeine leads to ordering of their structure and the formation of ion radical salts.