ADULT FANTASY

• Waking the Moon (revised), Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism)
• All the Bells on Earth, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
• The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• Brittle Innings, Michael Bishop (Bantam)
• The Dragon Path, Kenneth Morris (Tor)

CHILDREN'S FANTASY

• The Crown of Dalemark, Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow)
• The Boggart, Susan Cooper (Macmillan)
• Falcon's Egg, Luli Gray (Houghton Mifflin)
• The Mennyms, Sylvia Waugh (Greenwillow)
• Wren's War, Sherwood Smith (Harcourt Brace)

SCHOLARSHIP/INKLING

• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull (Houghton Mifflin)
• C.S. Lewis: A Reference Guide, 1927-1988, Susan Lowenberg (G.K. Hall)
• 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)
• The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity, William H. Green (Twayne)

SCHOLARSHIP/MYTH

• From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Marina Warner (Chatto & Windus)
• The Seed and the Vision: On the Writing and Appreciation of Children's Books, Eleanor Cameron (Dutton)
• T.H. White's The Once and Future King, Elisabeth Brewer (Boydell & Brewer)
• When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development, Lois Rostow Kuznets (Yale University Press)