Nix is big over here, so far as I can tell. I know at least three people who are big fans of his, despite not being SF/Fantasy readers in general. By strange coincidence they're all women...
I've read one short story that appeared in (I think) F&SF, and I read Mister Monday and whatever the second one in that sequence is a couple of years ago. I wasn't blown away and have felt no need to pick up anything else by him. But the Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen trilogy is spoken well of by several people I know.
i didn't think much of it, personally. it's not my kind of thing, and i only read SABRIEL, but i just didn't vibe with it. i wouldn't exactly say there was anything wrong with what nix does, except that it's kinda bloodless.
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Didn't think about his famousness as such because of that, or might have thought to put him in and get 4. :)