"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman is in my top 5. I would have to say that it is most at home in the fantasy catagory but don't let that put you off. It was a book centered on an ex-convict named Shadow who finds himself widowed and adrift until he is employed by a strange man known as Friday.
The book is about the various gods and goddesses from different countries and how they were brought to America by immigrants and what happened to them as the people became American and started to lose their old ways and objects of worship. It is fascinating and once you pick it up you can't put it down. The narration and description of settings are so spot on that you can almost feel the place being described in the narrations.
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