Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a slim, haunting fable about childhood, memory, and the things adults forget in order to survive. Narrated by a man returning to his rural English hometown, it reads like a dream you half-remember — tender, eerie, and quietly devastating.

Neil Gaiman gathers the great Norse tales — the making of the worlds, the mischief of Loki, the doom of Ragnarok — and retells them in his own clear, wry, fireside voice. It is the most inviting door into Norse myth you could ask for.

Neil Gaiman drops an ordinary London businessman through the cracks of his own city into London Below — a shadow-world of monsters, angels, and forgotten people beneath the streets. A witty, dark, foundational work of modern urban fantasy.

Good Omens is the gleefully funny apocalypse comedy Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman wrote together: an angel and a demon who've grown rather fond of Earth team up to stop Armageddon, mostly because they'd miss the restaurants and the rare books.