Music:
Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Dead Poetic, Thursday, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Emery, The Lost Prophets, My Chemical Romance, Saves the Day, Incubus, Sparta, At the Drive In.
Books:
Eon, The Forge of God, anything by R.A. Salvatore, The Cat that Walks Through Walls, Stranger in a Strange Land, JOB: A Comedy of Justice, Harry Potter