Mythopoeic Award
Presented by: Committee of Mythopoeic Society members
For: Fantasy exemplifying "the spirit of the Inklings"
| Winner | The Melancholy of Untold History | Minsoo Kang |
| Nominee | The Society of Guenevere | Deborah K. Vleck |
| Nominee | The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Katherine Arden |
| Nominee | The Fox Wife | Yangsze Choo |
| Nominee | The City in Glass | Nghi Vo |
| Winner | The Isles of the Gods duology | Amie Kaufman |
| Nominee | The Hedgewitch of Foxhall | Anna Bright |
| Nominee | Sheine Lende | Darcie Little Badger |
| Nominee | The Lost Souls of Benzaiten | Kelly Murashige |
| Nominee | Where the Dark Stands Still | A. B. Poranek |
| Winner | Island of Whispers | Frances Hardinge |
| Nominee | Kingdom of Dust | Lisa Stringfellow |
| Nominee | The Misewa Saga | David A. Robertson |
| Nominee | The Cece Rios trilogy | Kaela Rivera |
| Nominee | Sona and the Golden Beasts | Rajani LaRocca |
| Winner | The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Nominee | Mapping Middle-Earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies | Anahit Behrooz |
| Nominee | Tolkien's Transformative Women: Art in Triptych | Annie Brust |
| Nominee | Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-Earth | Robert Stuart |
| Nominee | J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics | Hamish Williams |
| Winner | Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity Through Magic | Stefan Ekman |
| Nominee | Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales | Jack Zipes |
| Nominee | Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author | Sophus Helle |
| Nominee | Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy | Matthew Oliver |
| Nominee | Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology | Dennis Wilson Wise |
| Winner | Ink Blood Sister Scribe | Emma Törzs |
| Nominee | Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree |
| Nominee | Monk and Robot (series) | Becky Chambers |
| Nominee | Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcett |
| Nominee | A Market of Dreams and Destiny | Trip Galey |
| Nominee | Adam Binder (trilogy) | David R. Slayton |
| Winner | Unraveller | Frances Hardinge |
| Nominee | Once There Was | Kiyash Monsef |
| Nominee | Lion's Legacy | L. C. Rosen |
| Nominee | The Goodnight Agency | Tyler Tork |
| Nominee | Lies We Sing to the Sea | Sarah Underwood |
| Winner | The Moth Keeper | K. O'Neill |
| Nominee | Just a Pinch of Magic | Alechia Dow |
| Nominee | Deephaven | Ethan M. Aldridge |
| Nominee | The Lost Library | Wendy Mass+Rebecca Stead |
| Nominee | Bea Wolf | Zach Weinersmith |
| Nominee | The Dark Lord's Daughter | Patricia C. Wrede |
| Nominee | Water Monster (duology) | Brian Young |
| Winner | Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works | José María Miranda Boto |
| Nominee | Tolkien As a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings | Thomas Kullmann+Dirk Siepmann |
| Nominee | Frodo's Wound: Why the Lord of the Rings Is a Great Book | Krishnan Venkatesh |
| Nominee | A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas | Peter Grybauskas |
| Nominee | Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today | Nick Groom |
| Winner | An Introduction to Fantasy | Matthew Sangster |
| Nominee | Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts | Jes Battis |
| Nominee | Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present | Hadas Elber-Aviram |
| Nominee | Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy | Matthew Oliver |
| Nominee | The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology | Paul R. Rovang |
| Winner | When the Angels Left the Old Country | Sacha Lamb |
| Nominee | The Ballad of Perilous Graves | Alex Jennings |
| Nominee | When Women Were Dragons | Kelly Barnhill |
| Nominee | Thistlefoot | GennaRose Nethercott |
| Nominee | The Cartographers | Peng Shepherd |
| Winner | The Ogress and the Orphans | Kelly Barnhill |
| Nominee | Strangeworlds Travel Agency (trilogy) | L. D. Lapinski |
| Nominee | The Last Mapmaker | Christina Soontornvat |
| Nominee | Freddie Vs. the Family Curse | Tracy Badua |
| Nominee | The Counterclockwise Heart | Brian Farrey |
| Nominee | Black Bird, Blue Road | Sofiya Pasternack |
| Nominee | The Beatryce Prophecy | Kate DiCamillo |
| Winner | Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-Inherence | Paul S. Fiddes |
| Nominee | The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth | John Garth |
| Nominee | Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey | John Rosegrant |
| Nominee | Tolkien As a Literary Artist | Thomas Kullmann+Dirk Siepmann |
| Nominee | A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas | Peter Grybauskas |
| Winner | Fantasy: How It Works | Brian Attebery |
| Nominee | The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend | Daniel Ogden |
| Nominee | Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present | Hadas Elber-Aviram |
| Nominee | Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media | Brian Attebery+Tereza Dědinová+Marek Oziewicz |
| Nominee | Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy | Matthew Oliver |
| Nominee | Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology | Taylor Driggers |
| Winner | Or What You Will | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | The Witness for the Dead | Katherine Addison |
| Nominee | Light from Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki |
| Nominee | A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark |
| Nominee | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke |
| Nominee | Terciel & Elinor | Garth Nix |
| Winner | Pahua and the Soul Stealer | Lori M. Lee |
| Winner | Root Magic | Eden Royce |
| Nominee | The Serpent's Secret | Sayantani DasGupta |
| Nominee | Game of Stars | Sayantani DasGupta |
| Nominee | The Chaos Curse | Sayantani DasGupta |
| Nominee | The Coming Storm | Regina M. Hansen |
| Winner | Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages | Holly Ordway |
| Nominee | Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence | Paul S. Fiddes |
| Nominee | The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth | John Garth |
| Nominee | A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas | Peter Grybauskas |
| Winner | The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination | Philip Ball |
| Nominee | Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present | Hadas Elber-Aviram |
| Nominee | The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend | Daniel Ogden |
| Nominee | George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form | Joseph Rex Young |
| Nominee | The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games | Ebony Elizabeth Thomas |
| Winner | The House in the Cerulean Sea | T. J. Klune |
| Nominee | Magic Lessons | Alice Hoffman |
| Nominee | Raybearer | Jordan Ifueko |
| Nominee | Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Nominee | The Left-Handed Booksellers of London | Garth Nix |
| Winner | A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking | T. Kingfisher |
| Nominee | The Silver Arrow | Lev Grossman |
| Nominee | Snapdragon | Kat Leyh |
| Nominee | When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller |
| Nominee | Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Carlos Hernandez |
| Nominee | Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe | Carlos Hernandez |
| Nominee | A Game of Fox & Squirrels | Jenn Reese |
| Winner | Tolkien's Lost Chaucer | John M. Bowers |
| Nominee | Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist | Oronzo Cilli |
| Nominee | The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth | John Garth |
| Nominee | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth | Catherine McIlwaine |
| Nominee | A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger | John D. Rateliff |
| Winner | Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien | Anna Vaninskaya |
| Nominee | The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 | Kathryn Hume |
| Nominee | Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology | Adrienne Mayor |
| Nominee | The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy | Charul Palmer-Patel |
| Nominee | The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games | Ebony Elizabeth Thomas |
| Winner | Snow White Learns Witchcraft | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | The Haunting of Tram Car 015 | P. Djèlí Clark |
| Nominee | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow |
| Nominee | Lent | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | The Bird King | G. Willow Wilson |
| Winner | Dragon Pearl | Yoon Ha Lee |
| Nominee | Lalani of the Distant Sea | Erin Entrada Kelly |
| Nominee | The Time of Green Magic | Hilary McKay |
| Nominee | A Tale Magnolious | Suzanne Nelson |
| Nominee | The Lost Girl | Anne Ursu |
| Winner | The Sweet and the Bitter: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | Amy Amendt-Raduege |
| Nominee | Sub-Creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, Its Precursors and Its Legacies | Dimitra Fimi+Thomas Honegger |
| Nominee | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth | Catherine McIlwaine |
| Nominee | Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy | Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson+Michael Partridge |
| Nominee | A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger | John D. Rateliff |
| Winner | A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic | James Gifford |
| Nominee | Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century | Maria Sachiko Cecire |
| Nominee | The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy | Charul Palmer-Patel |
| Nominee | The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games | Ebony Elizabeth Thomas |
| Nominee | The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds | Mark J. P. Wolf |
| Winner | Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik |
| Nominee | Borderline | Mishell Baker |
| Nominee | Phantom Pains | Mishell Baker |
| Nominee | Impostor Syndrome | Mishell Baker |
| Nominee | In Other Lands | Sarah Rees Brennan |
| Nominee | The Litany of Earth | Ruthanna Emrys |
| Nominee | Deep Roots | Ruthanna Emrys |
| Nominee | Winter Tide | Ruthanna Emrys |
| Nominee | Circe | Madeline Miller |
| Winner | Bob | Wendy Mass+Rebecca Stead |
| Nominee | Giants Beware! | Jorge Aguirre |
| Nominee | Dragons Beware! | Jorge Aguirre |
| Nominee | Monsters Beware! | Jorge Aguirre |
| Nominee | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Jonathan Auxier |
| Nominee | The Stone Girl's Story | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Nominee | Tiger vs. Nightmare | Emily Tetri |
| Winner | There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-Earth | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" | Jane Chance |
| Nominee | Tolkien's Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth | Lisa Coutras |
| Nominee | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth | Catherine McIlwaine |
| Nominee | The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie | Jonathan S. McIntosh |
| Winner | Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology | Dimitra Fimi |
| Nominee | Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith | Elizabeth M. Sanders |
| Nominee | Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds | Jonas Wellendorf |
| Nominee | The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds | Mark J. P. Wolf |
| Nominee | Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness | Helen Young |
| Winner | Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr | John Crowley |
| Nominee | The Rules of Magic | Alice Hoffman |
| Nominee | Snow City | G. A. Kathryns |
| Nominee | Passing Strange | Ellen Klages |
| Nominee | The Changeling | Victor LaValle |
| Winner | Frogkisser! | Garth Nix |
| Nominee | Tumble & Blue | Cassie Beasley |
| Nominee | The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart | Stephanie Burgis |
| Nominee | The Song from Somewhere Else | A. F. Harrold |
| Nominee | Pashmina | Nidhi Chanani |
| Winner | The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain | Sørina Higgins |
| Nominee | Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" | Jane Chance |
| Nominee | Tolkien's Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth | Lisa Coutras |
| Nominee | There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-Earth | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | Beren and Luthien | Christopher Tolkien |
| Winner | Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction | Michael Levy+Farah Mendlesohn |
| Nominee | Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature | Aisling Byrne |
| Nominee | Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology | Dimitra Fimi |
| Nominee | Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith | Elizabeth M. Sanders |
| Nominee | The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds | Mark J. P. Wolf |
| Winner | Kingfisher | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Will Do Magic for Small Change | Andrea Hairston |
| Nominee | Ghost Talkers | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Nominee | The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater |
| Nominee | The Dream Thieves | Maggie Stiefvater |
| Nominee | Blue Lily, Lily Blue | Maggie Stiefvater |
| Nominee | The Raven King | Maggie Stiefvater |
| Nominee | The Just City | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | The Philosopher Kings | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | Necessity | Jo Walton |
| Winner | The Inquisitor's Tale; or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Adam Gidwitz |
| Nominee | The Glass Sentence | S. E. Grove |
| Nominee | The Golden Specific | S. E. Grove |
| Nominee | The Crimson Skew | S. E. Grove |
| Nominee | The Rat Prince | Bridget Hodder |
| Nominee | When the Sea Turned to Silver | Grace Lin |
| Nominee | The Evil Wizard Smallbone | Delia Sherman |
| Winner | The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams | Philip Zaleski+Carol Zaleski |
| Nominee | Tolkien's Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth | Lisa Coutras |
| Nominee | Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works | Leslie A. Donovan |
| Nominee | Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell | Christopher Tolkien |
| Nominee | The Chapel of the Thorn | Charles Williams |
| Winner | Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church | Richard Firth Green |
| Nominee | Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature | Aisling Byrne |
| Nominee | Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction | Michael Levy+Farah Mendlesohn |
| Nominee | The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction | Gabrielle Lissauer |
| Nominee | Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales | Jack Zipes |
| Winner | Uprooted | Naomi Novik |
| Nominee | The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Nominee | A Thousand Nights | E. K. Johnston |
| Nominee | Shadowshaper | Daniel José Older |
| Nominee | The Darkest Part of the Forest | Holly Black |
| Winner | Castle Hangnail | Ursula Vernon |
| Nominee | Circus Mirandus | Cassie Beasley |
| Nominee | Serafina and the Black Cloak | Robert Beatty |
| Nominee | The Girl Who Could Not Dream | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Nominee | Tiffany Aching series | Terry Pratchett |
| Winner | Charles Williams: The Third Inkling | Grevel Lindop |
| Nominee | The Story of Kullervo | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet | Alister E. McGrath |
| Nominee | Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Nominee | Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis | Abigail Santamaria |
| Winner | The Evolution of Modern Fantasy | Jamie Williamson |
| Nominee | Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings | Stefan Ekman |
| Nominee | George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity | Daniel Gabelman |
| Nominee | Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain | Melanie Keene |
| Nominee | English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History | Heather O'Donoghue |
| Winner | Tales from Rugosa Coven | Sarah Avery |
| Nominee | The Angel of Losses | Stephanie Feldman |
| Nominee | Songs for Ophelia | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | The Gospel of Loki | Joanne M. Harris |
| Nominee | Locke & Key series | Joe Hill+Gabriel Rodriguez |
| Winner | A Snicker of Magic | Natalie Lloyd |
| Nominee | The Night Gardener | Jonathan Auxier |
| Nominee | The Castle Behind Thorns | Merrie Haskell |
| Nominee | The Islands of Chaldea | Diana Wynne Jones+Ursula Jones |
| Nominee | His Fair Assassin series | Robin LaFevers |
| Winner | C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages | Robert Boenig |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis and gender series | Monika B. Hilder |
| Nominee | Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey | John Wm. Houghton+Janet Brennan Croft+Nancy Martsch+John D. Rateliff+Robin Anne Reid |
| Nominee | Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Undergraduate Created Middle-Earth | John Garth |
| Nominee | Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Winner | Stories about Stories: Fantasy & the Remaking of Myth | Brian Attebery |
| Nominee | George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity | Daniel Gabelman |
| Nominee | From the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairy Tales | Sara Maitland |
| Nominee | As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality | Michael Saler |
| Nominee | Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination | Kristen Stirling |
| Winner | The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker |
| Nominee | The Ghost Bride | Yangsze Choo |
| Nominee | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | Three Parts Dead | Max Gladstone |
| Nominee | Sleepless Knights | Mark H. Williams |
| Winner | Doll Bones | Holly Black |
| Nominee | Ghoulish Song | William Alexander |
| Nominee | Killer of Enemies | Joseph Bruchac |
| Nominee | Conjured | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Nominee | Shadows | Robin McKinley |
| Winner | Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays | Jason Fisher |
| Nominee | There and Back Again: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit | Mark Atherton |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages | Robert Boenig |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet | Alister McGrath |
| Nominee | Exploring J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" | Corey Olsen |
| Winner | Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Nominee | The Book of Legendary Lands | Umberto Eco |
| Nominee | Dancing the Tao: Le Guin and Moral Development | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality | Michael Saler |
| Nominee | Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831 | David Sandner |
| Winner | Digger, vols. 1-6 | Ursula Vernon |
| Nominee | Weirdstone trilogy | Alan Garner |
| Nominee | The Drowning Girl | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| Nominee | Death and Resurrection | R. A. MacAvoy |
| Nominee | Hide Me Among the Graves | Tim Powers |
| Winner | Vessel | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Nominee | Giants Beware! | Jorge Aguirre |
| Nominee | The Princess Curse | Merrie Haskell |
| Nominee | The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom | Christopher Healy |
| Nominee | The Spy Princess | Sherwood Smith |
| Winner | Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages | Robert Boenig |
| Nominee | C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 | John Bremer |
| Nominee | Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays | Jason Fisher |
| Nominee | Exploring J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" | Corey Olsen |
| Winner | Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths | Nancy Marie Brown |
| Nominee | Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship | Jo Eldridge Carney |
| Nominee | The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald | Bonnie Gaarden |
| Nominee | As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality | Michael Saler |
| Nominee | Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831 | David Sandner |
| Winner | The Uncertain Places | Lisa Goldstein |
| Nominee | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
| Nominee | The Heavenly Fox | Richard Parks |
| Nominee | Deathless | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Among Others | Jo Walton |
| Winner | The Freedom Maze | Delia Sherman |
| Nominee | Théâtre Illuminata series | Lisa Mantchev |
| Nominee | Beka Cooper series | Tamora Pierce |
| Nominee | The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefvater |
| Nominee | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Winner | Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity | Carl Phelpstead |
| Nominee | Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays | Jason Fisher |
| Nominee | The Art of the Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien+Wayne G. Hammond+Christina Scull |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy | Sanford Schwartz |
| Nominee | The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style | Steve Walker |
| Winner | The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films | Jack Zipes |
| Nominee | Fairy Tales: A New History | Ruth B. Bottigheimer |
| Nominee | The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald | Bonnie Gaarden |
| Nominee | Cheek by Jowl | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews | Darrell Schweitzer |
| Winner | Redemption in Indigo | Karen Lord |
| Nominee | Under Heaven | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Nominee | The Bards of Bone Plain | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | A Cup of Normal | Devon Monk |
| Nominee | Troubled Waters | Sharon Shinn |
| Winner | The Queen's Thief series | Megan Whalen Turner |
| Nominee | The Grimm Legacy | Polly Shulman |
| Nominee | Toads and Diamonds | Heather Tomlinson |
| Nominee | Incarceron | Catherine Fisher |
| Nominee | Sapphique | Catherine Fisher |
| Nominee | I Shall Wear Midnight | Terry Pratchett |
| Winner | Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis | Michael Ward |
| Nominee | Middle-Earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien | Bradford Lee Eden |
| Nominee | Tolkien on Fairy-Stories | Verlyn Flieger+Douglas A. Anderson |
| Nominee | Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion | Douglas Charles Kane |
| Nominee | The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style | Steve Walker |
| Winner | The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale | Caroline Sumpter |
| Nominee | Out of my Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman | Don W. King |
| Nominee | Cheek by Jowl | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Rhetorics of Fantasy | Farah Mendlesohn |
| Nominee | Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance | Leslie A. Sconduto |
| Winner | Lifelode | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | Foxfire | Barbara Campbell |
| Nominee | Avilion | Robert Holdstock |
| Nominee | Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales | Greer Gilman |
| Nominee | Palimpsest | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Heartwood | Barbara Campbell |
| Nominee | Bloodstone | Barbara Campbell |
| Winner | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin |
| Nominee | Forest Born | Shannon Hale |
| Nominee | Ash | Malinda Lo |
| Nominee | The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale |
| Nominee | Enna Burning | Shannon Hale |
| Nominee | River Secrets | Shannon Hale |
| Nominee | Eyes Like Stars | Lisa Mantchev |
| Nominee | The Hotel Under the Sand | Kage Baker |
| Winner | Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits | Dimitra Fimi |
| Nominee | Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion | Douglas Charles Kane |
| Nominee | Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration | Gavin Ashenden |
| Nominee | Evolution Of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth | Elizabeth A. Whittingham+Donald E. Palumbo+C. W. Sullivan, III |
| Nominee | Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis | Michael Ward |
| Winner | One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'engle, Orson Scott Card | Marek Oziewicz |
| Nominee | Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance | Leslie A. Sconduto |
| Nominee | Rhetorics of Fantasy | Farah Mendlesohn |
| Nominee | Lilith in a New Light: Essays on the George MacDonald Fantasy Novel | Lucas H. Harriman+Donald E. Palumbo+C. W. Sullivan, III |
| Nominee | The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale | Caroline Sumpter |
| Winner | Flesh and Spirit | Carol Berg |
| Winner | Breath and Bone | Carol Berg |
| Nominee | The Bell at Sealey Head | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | An Evil Guest | Gene Wolfe |
| Nominee | Lavinia | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Pandemonium | Daryl Gregory |
| Winner | Graceling | Kristin Cashore |
| Nominee | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | House of Many Ways | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Nominee | Nation | Terry Pratchett |
| Nominee | Savvy | Ingrid Law |
| Winner | The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins | John D. Rateliff+J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Winner | The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End | John D. Rateliff+J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Nominee | Tolkien on Fairy-Stories | Verlyn Flieger+Douglas A. Anderson |
| Nominee | Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration | Gavin Ashenden |
| Nominee | Evolution Of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth | Elizabeth A. Whittingham+Donald E. Palumbo+C. W. Sullivan, III |
| Nominee | Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis | Michael Ward |
| Winner | Four British Fantasists : Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper | Charles Butler |
| Nominee | One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'engle, Orson Scott Card | Marek Oziewicz |
| Nominee | Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books | Richard Tuerk |
| Nominee | Rhetorics of Fantasy | Farah Mendlesohn |
| Nominee | Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction | Jason Marc Harris |
| Winner | In the Night Garden | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Winner | In the Cities of Coin and Spice | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Ysabel | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Nominee | Orphans of Chaos | John C. Wright |
| Nominee | Fugitives of Chaos | John C. Wright |
| Nominee | Titans of Chaos | John C. Wright |
| Nominee | In the Forest of Forgetting | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | The New Moon's Arms | Nalo Hopkinson |
| Nominee | Ironside | Holly Black |
| Nominee | Valiant | Holly Black |
| Nominee | Tithe | Holly Black |
| Nominee | Skulduggery Pleasant | Derek Landy |
| Nominee | The New Policeman | Kate Thompson |
| Nominee | Dusssie | Nancy Springer |
| Winner | The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community | Diana Pavlac Glyer |
| Nominee | Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins | John D. Rateliff+J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Nominee | The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End | John D. Rateliff+J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Nominee | Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-Earth | Marjorie Burns |
| Nominee | The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary | Jeremy Marshall+Edmund Weiner+Peter Gilliver |
| Winner | The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous | T. A. Shippey |
| Nominee | Four British Fantasists : Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper | Charles Butler |
| Nominee | The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy | Milly Williamson |
| Nominee | Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books | Richard Tuerk |
| Nominee | From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths | Heather O'Donoghue |
| Winner | Solstice Wood | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories | Susanna Clarke |
| Nominee | The Line Between | Peter S. Beagle |
| Nominee | The Necessary Beggar | Susan Palwick |
| Nominee | The Stolen Child | Keith Donohue |
| Nominee | Three Days to Never | Tim Powers |
| Winner | Corbenic | Catherine Fisher |
| Nominee | Wintersmith | Terry Pratchett |
| Nominee | Spirits That Walk in Shadow | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| Nominee | The Pinhoe Egg | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Nominee | Keturah and Lord Death | Martine Leavitt |
| Winner | The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader's Guide | Wayne G. Hammond+Christina Scull |
| Nominee | Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-Earth | Marjorie Burns |
| Nominee | The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary | Jeremy Marshall+Edmund Weiner+Peter Gilliver |
| Winner | Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Nominee | Four British Fantasists : Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper | Charles Butler |
| Nominee | The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy | Milly Williamson |
| Nominee | The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook | Jerry Griswold |
| Nominee | Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography | Simon Blaxland-de Lange |
| Winner | Anansi Boys | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | The Hallowed Hunt | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Nominee | Metallic Love | Tanith Lee |
| Nominee | The Penelopiad | Margaret Atwood |
| Nominee | The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl | Tim Pratt |
| Winner | Ptolemy's Gate | Jonathan Stroud |
| Winner | The Golem's Eye | Jonathan Stroud |
| Winner | The Amulet of Samarkand | Jonathan Stroud |
| Nominee | Wizards at War | Diane Duane |
| Nominee | Valiant | Holly Black |
| Nominee | By These Ten Bones | Clare B. Dunkle |
| Winner | The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion | Wayne G. Hammond+Christina Scull |
| Nominee | Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis | Alan Jacobs |
| Nominee | Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-Earth | Marjorie Burns |
| Nominee | National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England | Jennifer Schacker |
| Nominee | The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy | David R. Loy+Linda Goodhew |
| Nominee | The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook | Jerry Griswold |
| Nominee | Readers In Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds Of Fantasy Fiction | Deborah O'Keefe |
| Winner | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke |
| Nominee | Alphabet of Thorn | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | The Anvil of the World | Kage Baker |
| Nominee | Mortal Love | Elizabeth Hand |
| Nominee | The Wizard Knight | Gene Wolfe |
| Winner | A Hat Full of Sky | Terry Pratchett |
| Nominee | Colman | Monica Furlong |
| Nominee | Juniper | Monica Furlong |
| Nominee | Wise Child | Monica Furlong |
| Nominee | Sabriel | Garth Nix |
| Nominee | Lirael | Garth Nix |
| Nominee | Abhorsen | Garth Nix |
| Nominee | The Seeing Stone | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| Nominee | At the Crossing Places | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| Nominee | King of the Middle March | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| Nominee | The Sea of Trolls | Nancy Farmer |
| Winner | War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien | Janet Brennan Croft |
| Nominee | Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings | Matthew T. Dickerson |
| Nominee | Tolkien the Medievalist | Jane Chance |
| Nominee | Bareface: A Guide to C. S. Lewis's Last Novel | Doris T. Myers |
| Nominee | Tolkien in the Land of Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit | Anne C. Petty |
| Winner | Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography | Stephen Knight |
| Nominee | Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom | Teya Rosenberg |
| Nominee | The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook | Jerry Griswold |
| Nominee | Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most | William Patrick Day |
| Winner | Sunshine | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | Changing Planes | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Fudoki | Kij Johnson |
| Nominee | In the Forests of Serre | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Winner | The Hollow Kingdom | Clare B. Dunkle |
| Nominee | The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale |
| Nominee | Inkheart | Cornelia Funke |
| Nominee | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo |
| Nominee | The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett |
| Winner | Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth | John Garth |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse | Don W. King |
| Nominee | Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings | Matthew T. Dickerson |
| Nominee | Tolkien the Medievalist | Jane Chance |
| Winner | The Myth of the American Superhero | John Shelton Lawrence+Robert Jewett |
| Nominee | Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life | Mike Ashley |
| Nominee | A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld | Francis Bridger |
| Nominee | Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most | William Patrick Day |
| Nominee | National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England | Jennifer Schacker |
| Winner | Ombria in Shadow | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
| Nominee | A Fistful of Sky | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| Nominee | The Fall of the Kings | Ellen Kushner+Delia Sherman |
| Winner | Summerland | Michael Chabon |
| Nominee | Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale | Holly Black |
| Nominee | House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| Nominee | Coraline | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | Heir Apparent | Vivian Vande Velde |
| Winner | Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien | Michael D. C. Drout |
| Nominee | J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances | George Clark+Daniel Timmons |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse | Don W. King |
| Nominee | Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds | Peter J. Schakel |
| Nominee | Fairytale in the Ancient World | Graham Anderson |
| Nominee | A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld | Francis Bridger |
| Nominee | The Christian Imagination: G. K. Chesterton on the Arts | Thomas C. Peters |
| Nominee | Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake | G. Peter Winnington |
| Winner | The Curse of Chalion | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Nominee | American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | Ill Met by Moonlight | Sarah A. Hoyt |
| Nominee | The Other Wind | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Declare | Tim Powers |
| Winner | The Ropemaker | Peter Dickinson |
| Nominee | The Wizard's Dilemma | Diane Duane |
| Nominee | Island of the Aunts | Eva Ibbotson |
| Nominee | The Two Princesses of Bamarre | Gail Carson Levine |
| Winner | Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-Earth | Carl F. Hostetter+Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances | George Clark+Daniel Timmons |
| Nominee | Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams | Candice Fredrick+Sam McBride |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse | Don W. King |
| Winner | Fairytale in the Ancient World | Graham Anderson |
| Winner | The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Nominee | Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale | Elizabeth Wanning Harries |
| Nominee | The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840--1920 | Christine Poulson |
| Winner | The Innamorati | Midori Snyder |
| Nominee | ravenShadow | Win Blevins |
| Nominee | Forests of the Heart | Charles de Lint |
| Nominee | The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors) | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Winner | Aria of the Sea | Dia Calhoun |
| Nominee | Night Flying | Rita Murphy |
| Nominee | Beast | Donna Jo Napoli |
| Nominee | Growing Wings | Laurel Winter |
| Nominee | Boots and the Seven Leaguers | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century | Tom Shippey |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor | Lionel Adey |
| Nominee | J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances | George Clark+Daniel Timmons |
| Nominee | The Crisis and the Quest: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams | Stephen N. Dunning |
| Nominee | Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-Earth | Verlyn Flieger+Carl F. Hostetter |
| Nominee | The Fantasy Literature of England | Colin Manlove |
| Nominee | The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840--1920 | Christine Poulson |
| Nominee | The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Jack Zipes |
| Winner | Tamsin | Peter S. Beagle |
| Nominee | Elementals | A. S. Byatt |
| Nominee | Dark Cities Underground | Lisa Goldstein |
| Nominee | The Wild Swans | Peg Kerr |
| Nominee | The Book of Knights | Yves Meynard |
| Winner | The Folk Keeper | Franny Billingsley |
| Nominee | Skellig | David Almond |
| Nominee | The Circle of Magic Series | Tamora Pierce |
| Nominee | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling |
| Nominee | Kingdom (Series) | Cynthia Voigt |
| Winner | Roverandom | J. R. R. Tolkien+Christina Scull+Wayne G. Hammond |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor | Lionel Adey |
| Nominee | Tolkien: Man and Myth - A Literary Life | Joseph Pearce |
| Nominee | Farmer Giles of Ham | J. R. R. Tolkien+Wayne G. Hammond+Christina Scull |
| Winner | King Arthur in America | Alan Lupack+Barbara Tepa Lupack |
| Winner | Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness | Carole G. Silver |
| Nominee | The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840--1920 | Christine Poulson |
| Nominee | Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum | Michael Riley |
| Nominee | When Dreams Come True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition | Jack Zipes |
| Winner | Stardust | Neil Gaiman+Charles Vess |
| Nominee | Someplace to be Flying | Charles de Lint |
| Nominee | The History of Our World Beyond the Wave | R. E. Klein |
| Nominee | Song for the Basilisk | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | The High House | James Stoddard |
| Winner | Dark Lord of Derkholm | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Nominee | The Heavenward Path | Kara Dalkey |
| Nominee | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Nominee | The Squire's Tale | Gerald Morris |
| Nominee | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone^Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling |
| Winner | C. S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide | Walter Hooper |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor | Lionel Adey |
| Nominee | Christian Mythmakers | Rolland Hein |
| Nominee | Roverandom | J. R. R. Tolkien+Christina Scull+Wayne G. Hammond |
| Winner | A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature | Donna R. White |
| Nominee | Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children | Susan Cooper |
| Nominee | Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum | Michael Riley |
| Nominee | No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock | Marina Warner |
| Winner | The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye | A. S. Byatt |
| Nominee | Giant Bones | Peter S. Beagle |
| Nominee | Trader | Charles de Lint |
| Nominee | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | The Gift | Patrick O'Leary |
| Winner | The Young Merlin Trilogy | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | The Boggart and the Monster | Susan Cooper |
| Nominee | A Dark Horn Blowing | Dahlov Ipcar |
| Nominee | Rose Daughter | Robin McKinley |
| Winner | A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop | Janine Goffar |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide | Walter Hooper |
| Nominee | Charles Williams: A Celebration | Brian Horne |
| Nominee | Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C. S. Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress | Kathryn A. Lindskoog |
| Winner | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | John Clute+John Grant |
| Nominee | The Supernatural and English Fiction | Glen Cavaliero |
| Nominee | Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination | S. T. Joshi |
| Nominee | Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination | Richard Mathews |
| Winner | The Wood Wife | Terri Windling |
| Nominee | One for the Morning Glory | John Barnes |
| Nominee | Winter Rose | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Fair Peril | Nancy Springer |
| Nominee | The Book of the Long Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| Nominee | Combined with Adult Literature Award | (********) |
| Winner | The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams | Charles A. Huttar+Peter Schakel |
| Nominee | The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity | William H. Green |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide | Walter Hooper |
| Nominee | Charles Williams: A Celebration | Brian Horne |
| Winner | When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development | Lois Rostow Kuznets |
| Nominee | The Supernatural and English Fiction | Glen Cavaliero |
| Nominee | Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination | S. T. Joshi |
| Nominee | The Water of the Wondrous Isles | William Morris+Norman Talbot |
| Winner | Waking the Moon | Elizabeth Hand |
| Nominee | Brittle Innings | Michael Bishop |
| Nominee | All the Bells on Earth | James P. Blaylock |
| Nominee | The Book of Atrix Wolfe | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | The Dragon Path | Kenneth Morris |
| Winner | Crown of Dalemark^The Crown of Dalemark | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Nominee | The Boggart | Susan Cooper |
| Nominee | Falcon's Egg | Luli Gray |
| Nominee | Wren's War | Sherwood Smith |
| Nominee | The Mennyms | Sylvia Waugh |
| Winner | J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator | Wayne G. Hammond+Christina Scull |
| Nominee | The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror | Kath Filmer |
| Nominee | The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity | William H. Green |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: A Reference Guide 1927 - 1988 | Susan Lowenberg |
| Nominee | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World | Colin Manlove |
| Winner | From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers | Marina Warner |
| Nominee | T. H. White's The Once and Future King | Elisabeth Brewer |
| Nominee | The Seed and the Vision: On the Writing and Appreciation of Children's Books | Eleanor Cameron |
| Nominee | When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development | Lois Rostow Kuznets |
| Winner | Something Rich and Strange | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | The Dubious Hills | Pamela Dean |
| Nominee | The Hollowing | Robert Holdstock |
| Nominee | Temporary Agency | Rachel Pollack |
| Winner | Owl in Love | Patrice Kindl |
| Nominee | The Princess and the Lord of Night | Emma Bull |
| Nominee | Switching Well | Peni R. Griffin |
| Nominee | A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | Good Griselle | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | C. S. Lewis in Context | Doris T. Myers |
| Nominee | The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror | Kath Filmer |
| Nominee | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World | Colin Manlove |
| Nominee | J. R. R. Tolkien: Life and Legend | Judith Priestman |
| Nominee | Tolkien: A Critical Assessment | Brian Rosebury |
| Winner | Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World | James Roy King |
| Nominee | When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development | Lois Rostow Kuznets |
| Nominee | For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children | Roderick McGillis |
| Nominee | From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers | Marina Warner |
| Nominee | Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale | Jack Zipes |
| Winner | The Porcelain Dove | Delia Sherman |
| Nominee | The Innkeeper's Song | Peter S. Beagle |
| Nominee | The Little Country | Charles de Lint |
| Nominee | The Cygnet and the Firebird | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Deerskin | Robin McKinley |
| Winner | The Kingdom of Kevin Malone | Suzy McKee Charnas |
| Nominee | The Mystery of the Cupboard | Lynne Reid Banks |
| Nominee | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| Nominee | Nevernever | Will Shetterly |
| Nominee | Calling on Dragons | Patricia C. Wrede |
| Winner | J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography | Wayne G. Hammond+Douglas A. Anderson |
| Nominee | The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror | Kath Filmer |
| Nominee | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World | Colin Manlove |
| Nominee | J. R. R. Tolkien: Life and Legend | Judith Priestman |
| Nominee | Tolkien: A Critical Assessment | Brian Rosebury |
| Winner | Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature | Kath Filmer |
| Nominee | The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinivere in Modern Fantasy | Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise |
| Nominee | For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children | Roderick McGillis |
| Nominee | Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood | Maria Tatar |
| Winner | Briar Rose | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | The Paper Grail | James P. Blaylock |
| Nominee | Last Call | Tim Powers |
| Nominee | The Grail of Hearts | Susan Shwartz |
| Nominee | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis |
| Winner | Knight's Wyrd | Debra Doyle+James D. Macdonald |
| Nominee | The Ancient One | T. A. Barron |
| Nominee | Jennifer Murdley's Toad | Bruce Coville |
| Nominee | Hobkin | Peni R. Griffin |
| Nominee | Fish Soup | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Winner | Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy | David C. Downing |
| Winner | Strategies of Fantasy | Brian Attebery |
| Winner | A Woman of the Iron People | Eleanor Arnason |
| Nominee | Tam Lin | Pamela Dean |
| Nominee | Moonwise | Greer Ilene Gilman |
| Nominee | The Sorceress and the Cygnet | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Beauty | Sheri S. Tepper |
| Winner | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie |
| Nominee | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | Bruce Coville |
| Nominee | Castle in the Air | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Nominee | Elsewhere | Will Shetterly |
| Nominee | Song of the Gargoyle | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| Winner | Word and Story in C. S. Lewis | Peter J. Schakel+Charles A. Hutter |
| Nominee | Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis | Owen Barfield |
| Nominee | The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams | Roma A. King |
| Nominee | A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War | Sebastian Knowles |
| Nominee | C. S. Lewis: A Biography | A. N. Wilson |
| Winner | The Victorian Fantasists | Kath Filmer |
| Nominee | Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber | Bruce Byfield |
| Nominee | Mervyn Peake: The Evolution of a Dark Romantic | Tanya J. Gardiner-Scott |
| Nominee | The Weird Tale | S. T. Joshi |
| Winner | Thomas the Rhymer | Ellen Kushner |
| Nominee | Tigana | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Nominee | Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Only Begotten Daughter | James Morrow |
| Nominee | The Books of Great Alta | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times | George Sayer |
| Nominee | Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis | Owen Barfield |
| Nominee | The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer | Bruce L. Edward |
| Nominee | The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams | Roma A. King |
| Nominee | A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War | Sebastian Knowles |
| Winner | The Stress of Her Regard | Tim Powers |
| Nominee | Prentice Alvin | Orson Scott Card |
| Nominee | The Changeling Sea | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | The City, Not Long After | Pat Murphy |
| Nominee | Fool on the Hill | Matt Ruff |
| Winner | The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | Douglas A. Anderson |
| Winner | Unicorn Mountain | Michael Bishop |
| Nominee | The Last Coin | James P. Blaylock |
| Nominee | Red Prophet | Orson Scott Card |
| Nominee | The Nightingale | Kara Dalkey |
| Nominee | The White Raven | Diana L. Paxson |
| Nominee | Walkabout Woman | Michaela Roessner |
| Winner | The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien | Christopher Tolkien |
| Winner | Seventh Son | Orson Scott Card |
| Nominee | War for the Oaks | Emma Bull |
| Nominee | The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy |
| Nominee | Lincoln's Dreams | Connie Willis |
| Winner | C. S. Lewis | Joe R. Christopher |
| Winner | The Folk of the Air | Peter S. Beagle |
| Nominee | The Fionavar Tapestry (series) | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Nominee | Tales from the Flat Earth (series) | Tanith Lee |
| Nominee | Merlin's Booke | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion | Richard Purtill |
| Winner | Bridge of Birds | Barry Hughart |
| Nominee | Dragonsbane | Barbara Hambly |
| Nominee | Dark of the Moon | P. C. Hodgell |
| Nominee | Fire and Hemlock | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Nominee | The Wandering Unicorn | Manuel Mujica Lainez |
| Nominee | Always Coming Home | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Winner | Charles Williams: Poet of Theology | Glen Cavaliero |
| Nominee | Splintered Light | Verlyn Flieger |
| Nominee | The Novels of Charles Williams | Thomas Howard |
| Nominee | The Fantasts | Edmund Little |
| Nominee | J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion | Richard Purtill |
| Winner | Cards of Grief | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | Moonheart | Charles de Lint |
| Nominee | The Damiano Trilogy | R. A. MacAvoy |
| Nominee | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | The Book of Lost Tales | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Winner | Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis | Peter J. Schakel |
| Winner | When Voiha Wakes | Joy Chant |
| Winner | The Road to Middle-earth | Tom Shippey |
| Winner | The Firelings | Carol Kendall |
| Nominee | The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Nominee | The One Tree | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| Nominee | Queen of Sorcery | David Eddings |
| Nominee | God Stalk | P. C. Hodgell |
| Nominee | The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | The Door in the Hedge | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | Lady of Light | Diana L. Paxson |
| Nominee | The Darkangel | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| Winner | Companion to Narnia | Paul F. Ford |
| Winner | Little, Big | John Crowley |
| Nominee | Delusion's Master | Tanith Lee |
| Nominee | The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories | Elizabeth A. Lynn |
| Nominee | The Many-Colored Land | Julian May |
| Nominee | The Sable Moon | Nancy Springer |
| Nominee | The Claw of the Conciliator | Gene Wolfe |
| Winner | The Inklings | Humphrey Carpenter |
| Winner | Unfinished Tales | J. R. R. Tolkien+Christopher Tolkien |
| Nominee | The Grey Mane of Morning | Joy Chant |
| Nominee | The Wounded Land | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| Nominee | The Beginning Place | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru | Morgan Llywelyn |
| Winner | untitled | Christopher Tolkien |
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| Winner | C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist | Joe R. Christopher+Joan K. Ostling |
| Winner | Charles W. S. Williams: A Checklist | Lois Glenn |
| Winner | Tolkien Criticism | Richard C. West |
| Winner | A Midsummer Tempest | Poul Anderson |
| Nominee | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| Nominee | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nominee | Merlin's Ring | H. Warner Munn |
| Nominee | How Are the Mighty Fallen | Thomas Burnett Swann |
| Nominee | Prince of Annwn | Evangeline Walton |
| Winner | C. S. Lewis: A Biography | Roger Lancelyn Green+Walter Hooper |
| Nominee | No Award Given This Year | (********) |
| Winner | The Hollow Hills | Mary Stewart |
| Nominee | Hrolf Kraki's Saga | Poul Anderson |
| Nominee | The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper |
| Nominee | High Deryni | Katherine Kurtz |
| Nominee | Excalibur | Sanders Anne Laubenthal |
| Winner | C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian | Kathryn A. Lindskoog |
| Winner | The Song of Rhiannon | Evangeline Walton |
| Nominee | The Dancer from Atlantis | Poul Anderson |
| Nominee | Deryni Checkmate | Katherine Kurtz |
| Nominee | The Farthest Shore | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Green Phoenix | Thomas Burnett Swann |
| Nominee | The Guns of Avalon | Roger Zelazny |
| Winner | Master of Middle-earth | Paul H. Kocher |
| Winner | Red Moon and Black Mountain | Joy Chant |
| Nominee | Grendel | John Gardner |
| Nominee | The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders | Isidore Haiblum |
| Nominee | The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | The Chronicles of Corum | Michael Moorcock |
| Nominee | The Light Maze | Joan North |
| Nominee | The Forest of Forever | Thomas Burnett Swann |
| Nominee | The Children of Llyr | Evangeline Walton |
| Winner | untitled | Walter Hooper |
| Winner | The Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart |
| Nominee | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | Lloyd Alexander |
| Nominee | Deryni Rising | Katherine Kurtz |
| Nominee | Nine Princes in Amber | Roger Zelazny |
| Winner | untitled | Mary McDermott Shideler |
| Winner | untitled | Clyde S. Kilby |