American Gods by Neil GaimanGaiman doing what he does best: mixing and matching personified archetypes from a variety of different mythological pantheons into a story of love, war, and stage magic. Shadow returns from prison to find himself professionally associated with Mr. Wednesday: a confidence man, a trickster, and not at all what he appears to be. When people came to the New World, they brought their gods with them, but the new gods of technology and media have declared war on the old deities, and Shadow is caught right in the middle. Gaiman's best and most fulfilling work since Sandman.