books and songs
A Journey, a Reckoning and a Miracle pays homage to books, songs, music and movies, viewed in the novel as some of the “great powers of healing, called by many names.” That quote, by the way, is from the Unitarian Universalist Church. Stories and songs have healing properties and in the list below are some mentioned in A Journey, a Reckoning and a Miracle.
Books
The Big Book of
Alcoholics Anonymous
The Bible (Revised Standard Version)
The Legend of the Bluebonnets by
Tomie dePaola
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You
by Dorothy Bryant
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
All Quiet on the Western Front by
Erich Maria Remarque
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt
Vonnegut
War is a Force that Gives us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Veiled Kingdom by Carmen bin
Ladin
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by
Dr. Suess
The Quiet American by Graham
Greene
The Ugly American by William J.
Lederer and Eugene Burdick
1984 and
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina
Khedri aka Mohammed Moulessehoul
Take a deep breath: little lessons from
flowers by Allison Stoutland and
Cathy Hofher
Story of a Soul by St. Therese of
Lisieux
The Harry Potter books, by J.K.
Rowling
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Buddhist and the Terrorist by
Satish Kumar
Antigone by Sophocles
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Castle in the Forest by Norman
Mailer
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
The Koran translation and
commentary by A. Yusuf Ali
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to
Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Songs and Music
Wake Now My Senses
by Thomas MIkelson
Stile Nacht Silent Night by Josef
Mohr
Get Up Stand Up and
One Love/People Get Ready by Bob
Marley
Eroica, Ode to Joy, Piano Sonata in E
opus 109 and the 5th Symphony
by Ludvig van Beethoven
Condi Condi by Steve Earle
Everything is Wrong by Lucinda
Williams
The Rising by Bruce Springsteen
The Missing Years and
You’ve Got Gold Inside of You by
John Prine
Giot Mua Tu by Dan The Phong and
Buic Cong Kai
You Can’t Always Get What you Want
by the Rolling Stones
You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice’s
Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
I Started a Joke by Robin Gibb and
the Bee Gees
Fix You by Coldplay
Every breath You Take by Sting
Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
Miracle of Miracles by Jerry Bock
and Sheldon Harnick from Fiddler on the Roof
Circle of Light by Walela
What a Friend We Have in Jesus by
Joseph M. Scriven
Refugee by Tom Petty
Cant’ Buy me Love by the Beatles
Praise God for Whom All Blessings Flow
by Thomas Ken
Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead by
Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Amazing Grace by John Newton
Movies
Fahrenheit 911
Night of the Living Dead
The Wizard of Oz
Gunner Palace
An Inconvenient Truth
The Aristocrats
It’s a Wonderful Life