ADULT FANTASY

• Something Rich and Strange, Patricia A. McKillip (Bantam)
• The Dubious Hills, Pamela Dean (Tor)
• The Hollowing, Robert Holdstock (Roc)
• Temporary Agency, Rachel Pollack (St. Martin's)

CHILDREN'S FANTASY

• Owl in Love, Patrice Kindl (Houghton Mifflin)
• Good Griselle, Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace)
• A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow)
• The Princess and the Lord of Night, Emma Bull (Harcourt Brace)
• Switching Well, Peni R. Griffin (McElderry Books)

SCHOLARSHIP/INKLING

• C.S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers (Kent State University Press)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World, Colin Manlove (Twayne)
• The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror, Kath Filmer (St. Martin's)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, Anonymous (Bodleian Library exhibition catalog)
• Tolkien: A Critical Assessment, Brian Rosebury (St. Martin's)

SCHOLARSHIP/MYTH

• Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World, James Roy King (State University of New York Press)
• Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale, Jack Zipes (University Press of Kentucky)
• For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children, Roderick McGillis, ed. (Children's Literature Assoc. & Scarecrow Press)
• From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Marina Warner (Chatto & Windus)
• When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development, Lois Rostow Kuznets (Yale University Press)