@billy_batson: Not really a prerequisite to read FC since none of them really deal with FC, other than perhaps to understand the characters a little better.
@m3rlyn: For a new reader of DC comics, Final Crisis is probably the deepest end you could choose to jump into. Partially because it's written by Grant Morrison, who's probably the weirdest writer in mainstream comics these days when he's allowed to. And partially because Final Crisis heavily leans on very old DC concepts of there being a slew of alternate dimensions with tweaked versions of the heroes of the main Earth.
But with that said, there is not really a New Gods or Batman story you need to read before reading Final Crisis. Batman was for the most part dealing with something else at the time and Final Crisis just sort of crept up on him without his book dealing with it till well after the event. The New Gods... Well, if anything it should be Death of the New Gods, but most people would advise against it (because it's considered terrible), but it does explain how/why FC happens.
If you want a crossover with plenty of characters in it, there is the Grandfather of Company Crossovers; Crisis on Infinite Earths and it's less challenging nephew Infinite Crisis.
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