Series
American Gods
Neil Gaiman · 2 novels · 2 novelettes · 6 short stories · 1999–2020
Neil Gaiman's American Gods (2001) follows Shadow Moon, an ex-convict who takes a job as bodyguard to a mysterious drifter who is secretly the Norse god Odin, and is drawn into a brewing conflict between the old immigrant gods of myth and the new gods of media, technology, and modern American life. Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
American Gods at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Monarch of the Glendarkest
- Anansi Boysbrightest
- Somewhere in Americacalmest
- Black Dogmost intense