10 books for fans of American Gods
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Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher
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Love that defies gods, kings, and death itself—fantasy's biggest names craft original stories where passion and doom intertwine across impossible worlds.
★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K ratings) - 2
The Sandman: Act I
Sandman Audible Original • Book 1
by Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman, Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, James McAvoy, Andy Serkis, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Michael Sheen, Arthur Darvill, Miriam Margolyes
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Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, must recover his power after decades of imprisonment by occultists who sought to capture Death herself. Gaiman's comic masterpiece gains new depth in this adaptation of the genre-defining series.
★ 4.39 Goodreads (24.9K ratings) - 3
Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
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An angel and demon team up to stop the apocalypse after misplacing the Antichrist in an English village. Pratchett and Gaiman's collaboration balances brilliant satire with genuine friendship.
★ 4.25 Goodreads (830.5K ratings) - 4
Neverwhere
London Below • Book 1
by Neil Gaiman
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After helping a bleeding girl on a London street, Richard Mayhew becomes invisible to the normal world and must navigate London Below's market of wonders and horrors to get his life back. Gaiman turns the Underground literally underground.
★ 4.16 Goodreads (563.8K ratings) - 5
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
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Bod lives in a graveyard raised by ghosts, learning to Fade and Haunt while the mysterious Jack who killed his family still hunts him. Gaiman transforms a cemetery into the safest place a child could grow up.
★ 4.15 Goodreads (567.6K ratings) - 6
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
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Coraline discovers an alternate apartment where her Other Mother has buttons for eyes and wants to sew them onto her too. Gaiman's fairy tale horror about appreciating what you have.
★ 4.13 Goodreads (788.4K ratings) - 7
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust(Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust)
by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess
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Beyond the English village of Wall lies Faerie, where Tristran discovers the fallen star he promised his love is actually a fierce, immortal woman. Adventure and romance bloom in Gaiman's lushest fairy tale.
★ 4.10 Goodreads (483.5K ratings) - 8
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
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Gaiman crafts childhood terror through adult memory as his narrator recalls Lettie Hempstock, whose family guards against creatures that slip through reality's cracks.
★ 4.01 Goodreads (660.0K ratings) - 9
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The Butcher's Masquerade
Dungeon Crawler Carl • Book 5
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Book five throws our dungeon crawlers into a prehistoric hunting ground where velociraptors are the least of their problems. The mysterious end-floor celebration promises answers about the aliens destroying Earth.
★ 4.69 Goodreads (108.1K ratings)