As it says in the title... this is just a bunch of stuff I've read and would happily recommend to anyone with similar interests etc...

THIS EDIT: NOVEMBER 2007

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BOOKS:

The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies - authors site [link]
The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies
Outside the Dog Museum - Jonathan Carroll - authors site [link]
American Gods - Neil Gaiman - authors site [link]
Knowledge Of Angels - Jill Paton Walsh - [link]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - authors site [link]
The Forgetting Room - Nick Bantock - authors site [link]

...and,

The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes - Stephen Marlowe
The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Baltazar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago
Grendel - John Gardener
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Long John Silver - Bjorn Larsson
The Wandering Jew - Stephan Heym
Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Three Musketeers/Ten Years After - Alexander Dumas
Iron Council - China Meiville
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
The Falls - Ian Rankin
The Last Kingdom & The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell

… all the Felix Castor novels by Mike Carey
… any of the “Rebus” novels by Ian Rankin
... any of the Henry Gresham stories by Martin Stephen
... any of the Conan stories by Robert E. Howard
... any of the "Sharpe", "Grail Quest" and "Warlord" novels - Bernard Cornwell
... and pretty much anything and everything by Jonathan Carroll and Robertson Davies


(If you don't know Cornwell's work you can check out his site here [link] )

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COMICS:

Heartbreak Soup - Gilbert Hernandez [link] (Hey, let's face it, pretty much anything from the "Love & Rockets" stable by the Hernandez Bros. is worth checking out).

Maus – Art Spiegelman [link]

A Contract with God - Will Eisner

Dork - Evan Dorkin (Big laughs and yucks from the House of Fun) [link]

Cages - Dave McKean [link]

Why I Hate Saturn - Kyle Baker

Maakies - Tony Millionaire [link] Ahh, Drinky Crow! Thou art my role model...

Powers – Bendis/Avon Oeming [link] (also check out Oeming's work on "Hammer of the Gods" if you like your Norse/Viking stuff).

Age of Bronze - Eric Shanower [link]

Cerebus - Dave Sim (I am Cerebus - at least I can empathise with, and see parallels, with him until the end of "Form and Void" ... sad but true) [link] [link]

…and pretty much anything written by Mark Carey [link] particularly his "Lucifer" and "Hellblazer" for DC (the best guy in the field right now for fantasy based gritty comics, they're also re-releasing his "Inferno" work for Calibre I believe).

Finder - Carla Speed McNeil [link]

I'm going to add the link to Suture's Essential Graphic Novel list here too (I believe they are going to update it or add a "part 2" at some point) - [link]

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There's a good chance I'll add movies to this list too at some point... but regardless I'll keep adding to it, it'll be an ongoing, evolving thing.

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