American Gods

by Neil Gaiman · 2001

Fresh out of prison, Shadow is hired by the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday and pulled into a brewing war between America's old gods and its new ones.

Books mentioned in American Gods (4)

• Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin: “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. —BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK”
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie: “The man was reading Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”
• Histories by Herodotus: “Lyesmith had loaned Shadow a battered paperback copy of Herodotus's Histories several months earlier.”
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein: “a battered, yellowing copy of Stranger in a Strange Land”