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Neil Gaiman is a best-selling and award-winning fantasy author that has written fiction and nonfiction. He has also written for television, film, radio, and the theater. Born in 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, the British author is of Polish-Jewish descent.
Order of American Gods Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | American Gods | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Anansi Boys | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Monarch of the Glen | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Black Dog | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of American Gods Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | American Gods | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Monarch of the Glen | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Anansi Boys | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Black Dog | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of American Gods Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | American Gods, Volume 1 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
2 | American Gods, Volume 2 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
3 | American Gods, Volume 3 | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Sandman Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Preludes and Nocturnes | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Doll's House | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Dream Country | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Season of Mists | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | A Game of You | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Fables and Reflections | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Brief Lives | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Worlds' End | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Kindly Ones | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Wake | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Dream Hunters (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Endless Nights | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Overture | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Sandman Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dustcovers: The Collected Sandman Covers, 1989-1997 | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Sandman Companion | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Quotable Sandman | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of Babylon 5 Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | In the Beginning | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Thirdspace | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Day of the Dead (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Call to Arms | 1998 | Description / Buy |
Order of Best American Comics Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Best American Comics 2010 | 2010 | Description / Buy |
Order of Chu Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Chu's Day (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Chu's First Day of School (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Chu's Day at the Beach (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Death Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The High Cost of Living (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Death Talks About Life (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Time of Your Life (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Absolute Death | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of InterWorld Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | InterWorld | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Silver Dream | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Eternity's Wheel | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of London Below Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Neverwhere | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
2 | How the Marquis Got His Coat Back | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Marvel 1602 Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Marvel 1602 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Marvel 1602: New World (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy |
Order of Marvel Masters Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Marvel Masters | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Tales of Kurt Busiek | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The British Invasion, Volume 1 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Tales of Chris Claremont | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Art of John Romita Jr. | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Tales of Kurt Busiek & The Art of John Romita Sr. & John Romita Jr. | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Tales of Chris Claremont & The Art of John Byrne & Jim Lee | 2010 | Description / Buy |
Order of Miracleman Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Golden Age | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Apocrypha | 1993 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero The Newmatic Man Series with James Vance
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero The Newmatic Man: The Complete Comics, Volume One | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero The Newmatic Man: The Complete Comics, Volume Two | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Spawn Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Angela's Hunt (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy |
Order of Temps Series with Alex Stewart
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Temps | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Eurotemps | 1992 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Stardust | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Coraline | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Graveyard Book | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Odd and the Frost Giants (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Fortunately, the Milk (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Black Dog by Neil Gaiman | 1796 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Shoggoth's Old Peculiar | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Study in Emerald (in Shadows Over Baker Street) (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Case of Death and Honey (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Sleeper and the Spindle (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
7 | How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Plays
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Two Plays for Voices | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Beowulf: The Script Book | 2007 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Children's Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Dangerous Alphabet (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Blueberry Girl (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Crazy Hair (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Instructions | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Cinnamon (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Pirate Stew | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Graphic Novels with
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Violent Cases (Short Story) | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Breakthrough (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Black Orchid | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Signal to Noise (Short Story) | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Murder Mysteries | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Books of Magic | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Snow, Glass, Apples | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Spawn: Angela's Hunt | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Neil Gaiman's Wheel of Worlds | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Last Temptation | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Compleat Alice Cooper | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Stardust | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Only the End of the World Again | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Creatures of the Night | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Harlequin Valentine (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Wolves in the Walls | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Matrix Comics, Vol. 1 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
20 | A Study in Emerald | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
21 | MirrorMask (Short Story) | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Melinda | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Eternals | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Coraline | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Hansel and Gretel (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Free Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The DC Universe By Neil Gaiman | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Troll Bridge (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Likely Stories | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Chivalry (Short Story) | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Midnight Days | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Adventures in the Dream Trade | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Fragile Things | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
7 | M is for Magic | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Coraline and Other Stories | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Sweet Justice: Selected Short Stories from the 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Annuals (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Trigger Warning | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Norse Mythology | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Problem of Susan and Other Stories (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Neil Gaiman Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Duran Duran | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Art of Vampire: The Masquerade (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Walking Tour of the Shambles (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Make Good Art | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The View from the Cheap Seats | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Neil Gaiman Coloring Book | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Art Matters | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | H. Beam Piper: A Biography | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Rhysling Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The 2017 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2016 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The 2019 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2018 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Snow White, Blood Red Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Snow White, Blood Red | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Black Thorn, White Rose | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Black Swan, White Raven | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Silver Birch, Blood Moon | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Black Heart, Ivory Bones | 2000 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Best Horror of the Year Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 12 | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Book of Cthulhu Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Book of Cthulhu II | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Mythic Fiction Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of UFO Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Unidentified Funny Objects | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Unidentified Funny Objects 2 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Unidentified Funny Objects 3 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Funny Science Fiction | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Unidentified Funny Objects 4 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Funny Fantasy | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Unidentified Funny Objects 5 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Funny Horror | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Unidentified Funny Objects 6 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Unidentified Funny Objects 7 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Unidentified Funny Objects 8 | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Year's Best Fantasy Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Year's Best Fantasy | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Year's Best Fantasy | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Year's Best Fantasy 2 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Year's Best Fantasy 3 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Year's Best Fantasy 4 | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Year's Best Fantasy 5 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Year's Best Fantasy 6 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Year's Best Fantasy 7 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Year's Best Fantasy 8 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Year's Best Fantasy 9 | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dying Earth Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Dying Earth / Mazirian the Magician | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Cugel's Saga / Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Eyes of the Overworld / Cugel the Clever | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Quest for Simbilis | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Morreion (Short Story) | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Seventeen Virgins | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Bagful of Dreams | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Rhialto the Marvellous | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Laughing Magician | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of Legends Series with Diana Gabaldon, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks, Robert Silverberg, Elizabeth Haydon
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Legends | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Legends 3 | 1999 | Description / Buy |
Order of Little Lit Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
3 | It Was a Dark and Silly Night... (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Big Fat Little Lit (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of New Cthulhu Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Recent Weird | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | More Recent Weird | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Doctor Who Anthologies with Eoin Colfer, Justin Richards, Malorie Blackman, Derek Landy, Alex Scarrow, Richelle Mead, Patrick Ness, Philip Reeve, , Michael Scott, Stephen Cole, Jacqueline Rayner
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | More Short Trips | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Short Trips and Side Steps | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Doctor Who Stories | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Summer Falls and Other Stories | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Norse Mythology, Vol. 2 (Single Issues) Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Norse Mythology, Vol. 2 | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Death of the Endless Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Death: The Deluxe Edition | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Neil Gaiman Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ghastly Beyond Belief | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Now We Are Sick | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Weerde, Book 1 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Weerde, Book 2 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Sandman: Book of Dreams | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
6 | In the Shadow of the Gargoyle | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Dark Terrors 3: The Gollancz Book of Horror | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Bento: Story Art Box | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
11 | 9-11, Volume 2 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
12 | It Was a Dark and Silly Night... | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Shadows Over Baker Street | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Big Fat Little Lit | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Smoke and Mirrors | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Hellbound Hearts | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Stories: All New Tales | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Zombies: The Recent Dead | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Songs of Love and Death | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Happily Ever After | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Urban Fantasy Anthology | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
26 | A Study in Sherlock | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Recent Weird | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
32 | All Star Future Shocks | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Weird Detectives | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Unnatural Creatures | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Rogues | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
38 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Doctor Who: 12 Doctors, 12 Stories | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Fables from the Fountain | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
44 | War on Christmas | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Relics, Wrecks and Ruins | 2021 | Description / Buy |
His great-grandfather left Antwerp (Belgium) for the UK in the early 1900s. Gaiman’s grandfather found a home in Portsmouth, England where he nurtured his chain of grocery stores. During those days, Gaiman’s grandfather went by the name ‘Chaiman’.
This was the surname his family carried. However, he eventually changed it to ‘Gaiman’ which the author and his father also use. The son of a pharmacist (mother) and an older brother to two sisters, Neil Gaiman’s history is heavily steeped in Scientology.
Not only did his parents frequent the East Grinstead (West Sussex) Scientology center but his sister eventually landed a job at LA’s Church of Scientology. His sisters have always described themselves as a family of Jewish-Scientologists.
Gaiman agrees with this description. However, he does not associate with Judaism and Scientology. While he agrees that the beliefs stand at the center of his family’s values, he hasn’t embraced them.
Before Gaiman became a bestselling author, he was an avid reader. This made Gaiman a great student. Because he took to reading at the tender age of four, he would always read the textbooks the school handed out to the students at the beginning of the term.
As such, he was far better prepared than most of his classmates. His fascination with fantasy was shaped by Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. He found the first two books in the school library and they took his breath away.
He was fortunate enough to win an Engish Prize at his school because the winnings allowed him to secure the final novel in the LOTR series. Gaiman’s reading habits were further advanced by C.S. Lewis.
Gaiman couldn’t get enough of Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. He was fascinated by the writer’s parenthetical statements and he couldn’t wait to replicate the technique when he became a published author.
As a young adult, Gaiman’s talents took him into journalism. He spent the early 1980s doing interviews and writing for publications like Imagine Magazine and the British Fantasy Society. Gaiman knew that he wanted to write novels, and he hoped that his work as a journalist would afford him the connections he needed to advance in the industry.
But then he stumbled upon a copy of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing as he waited for a train at Victoria Station and everything changed. The issue blew Gaiman’s mind because he did not expect comic books to take such a fresh and exciting approach to storytelling.
It was at that point that the author pivoted into comic books. Some people might remember Gaiman in the 1980s for his Duran Duran biography. But the book was eventually eclipsed by the work he did on titles like ‘Black Orchid’, ‘The Sandman’, and ‘ Swamp Thing’.
It wasn’t until 1996 that Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman’s first novel was published, turning him into the fantasy fiction icon that everyone knows.
Neil Gaiman Awards
Gaiman’s long list of accolades includes World Fantasy, Mythopoeic Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Hugo, Newberry Medal, and Nebula Awards.
Neil Gaiman Books into Movies
Stardust, Gaiman’s 1997 novel, became a 2007 live-action movie starring Charlie Cox and Claire Danes. Coraline, Gaiman’s 2002 novella, became a 2009 stop-motion animated movie of the same name.
American Gods, a 2001 novel, became a 2017 live-action TV show. Good Omens, which Gaiman wrote with Terry Pratchett in 1990 also received a live-action TV adaptation in 2019.
Best Neil Gaiman Books
Gaiman’s dreams of writing fiction were kickstarted by R. A. Lafferty. Gaiman wrote him a letter at the age of nine and Lafferty responded with a highly informative letter filled with literary advice. Some of the best books in Gaiman’s bibliography include:
Coraline: When Coraline’s family moved into their new flat, she noticed that, of the fourteen doors, only thirteen could open. The fourteenth was supposed to lead to a brick wall. But when Coraline opened it one random day, she found a passage leading to another house, one that not only looked like hers but which had a father and a mother who wanted Coraline to stay with them.
What’s more, Coraline found that other children were trapped in mirrors in this bizarre house, and Coraline was their only hope.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: When a middle-aged man returns home for a funeral, he cannot help but visit the farm at the end of the road. At first, the farm sparks all the right memories, reminding the man of the remarkable girl he met there when he was 7. But then new memories start emerging, terrible memories filled with death and darkness and promises from young, magical Lettie Hempstock.
When Does The Next Neil Gaiman book come out?
Neil Gaiman doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Death: The Deluxe Edition and was released on April, 5th 2022. It is the newest book in the Death of the Endless Series.