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Here is a list of books, plays, poems, literary Biblical passages and other literary media I thoroughly recommend reading.

Novels
Beowulf (I like the Bilingual edition of the Seamus Heaney translation best.)
Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Terry Brooks
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith - Matthew Stover
The Cestus Deception - Steven Barnes
Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew & the Last Battle are my faves. - CS Lewis
Till We Have Faces - CS Lewis
Perelandra - CS Lewis
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
Calculating God - Robert J. Sawyer
The Messed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweller - Konigsburg
Emotionally Weird - by Kate Aktinson
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Count Zero - William Gibson
X-Men Empire's End - Diane Duane
X-Men: Siege [1 of 3]
X-Men: Sanctuary [2 of 3]
X-Men: Salvation [3 of 3]
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (first edition)
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
Phantastes - George MacDonald

Plays / Graphic Novels

Murder at the Cathedral - T.S. Elliot
Julius Ceasar - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Edward II - Christopher Marlowe
Antigone - Socrates
Medea - Euripides
Prometheus Bound - Aechelus
Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia [Graphic Novel]
Wonder Woman: Paradise Lost [Graphic Novel]
Batman: Hush [Graphic Novel]
Marvel 1602 [Graphic Novel]
Sandman (The Wake is my favourite) [Graphic Novel series]

Poetry

Hyperion - John Keats
Ode to Psyche - John Keats [basically anything by John Keats]
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Hollow Men - TS Eliot
The Incorrection - George MacDonald
Anne Bradstreet
Anglo-Saxon Poetry. (Anything I can get my hands on).
The Illiad - Homer
Gaius Catallus: Roman poet, English translations from the Latin available online.

Films

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Amelie
Meet Joe Black
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
V For Vendetta
Alexander, The Director's Cut
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Help! A Beatles Movie
Troy
Children of Dune
White Christmas
Garden State
Baraka
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Biblical / Religous Passages

Job: the whole book is awesome for philosophy and learning about nature and God. Chapter 38 onward is particularly effective
Matthew 23: Jesus crying over Jerusalem
Esther: The story of Queen Esther, great Woman Power story
Genesis 1: Creation Myth
Psalms: Beautiful spiritual poetry
Jeremiah 29:11-14
The Writings of Pope John Paul II
Journals of Thomas Merton

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Update: June 3, 2008