I have always had my tried and true fall back on books. Favorites are C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles Of Narnia, Lois Lowry's The Giver, Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series, Dean Koontz's Demon Seed, Clive Barker's Weaveworld, Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles, George Orwell's 1984, Homer's The Illiad and The Odessy, Anything by Stephen King really, especially Cujo and Pet Sematary, and my collection of The X-Files books, plus some Star Wars and Star Trek Deep Space Nine books.