Neil Gaiman

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

• 2002 Hugo-Novel winner
• 2002 Nebula winner
• 2001 Stoker–Novel winner
• 2002 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
• 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
• 2001 IHG–Novel nominee
• Score: 48.52

A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary results.

Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. But the day before his release, his wife and best friend are killed in an accident. On the plane home to the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesday—a beguiling stranger who seems to know everything about him. A trickster and rogue, Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday’s schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought—and the prize is the very soul of America.

Coraline

Neil Gaiman

• 2002 Stoker–Youth winner
• 2003 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• 2005 YRCA-Junior nominee
• Score: 20.52

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring….

In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it’s different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and…

Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany

Neil Gaiman

• 1994 IHG–Collection winner
• 1994 WFA–Collection nominee
• Score: 16.44

A collection of Neil Gaiman’s short fiction; an odd assortment of enigmatic and wonderful tales—including Troll Bridge, Chivalry and Cold Colours—to amuse and delight, illustrated by Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Jill Carla Schwarz, Michael Zulli, and Rrandy Broecker.

Anansi Boys: A Novel

Neil Gaiman

• 2006 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
• 2008 YRCA-Senior nominee
• Score: 14.56

God is dead. Meet the kids.

When Fat Charlie’s dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie “Fat Charlie.” Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can’t shake that name, one of the many embarrassing “gifts” his father bestowed—before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie’s life.

Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie’s doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who’s going to show…

The Wolves in the Walls

Neil Gaiman

• 2003 Greenaway Medal honor
• 2003 Stoker–Youth nominee
• Score: 12.53

Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house — and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it’s all over. Her family doesn’t believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out. But it’s not all over. Instead, Lucy’s battle with the wolves is only just beginning.

Stardust

Neil Gaiman

• 1999 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
• Score: 10.49

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.

Mirrormask

Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

• 2005 Greenaway Medal honor
• Score: 6.55

While most kids long to run away and join the circus, Helena dreams of running away to join the real world. Until the day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new place populated by mysterious creatures a dreamworld where she is about to embark on an amazing journey.

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

• 1998 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
• Score: 6.48

Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.

Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won’t stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and…

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

• 1991 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.41

“Good Omens has a dire tale to tell. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding. The Antichrist is discovering his supernatural powers. An army of witchfinders is trying to find him and kill him. And an angel from heaven and a demon from hell are trying to make certain everything happens according to the ineffable plan. So why is this such a funny book? Because the Four Horsemen are really the Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse; the Antichrist, through a mix-up at birth, has been raised by a middle-class family, and is really just a nice, normal kid;…