ADULT LITERATURE

• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, A. S. Byatt (Random House)
• Giant Bones, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
• The Gift, Patrick O'Leary (Tor)
• Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (Avon)
• Trader, Charles de Lint (Tor)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

• "Young Merlin" trilogy: Passager; Hobby; Merlin (1996, 1996, 1997), Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace)
• The Boggart and the Monster, Susan Cooper (McElderry Books)
• A Dark Horn Blowing, Dahlov Ipcar (Harcourt Brace)
• Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow)

SCHOLARSHIP/INKLING

• A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to "Faërie", Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press)
• C.S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop, Janine Goffar (La Sierra University Press)
• C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Charles Williams: A Celebration, Brian Horne, ed. (Gracewing)
• Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C.S. Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress, Kathryn Lindskoog (Cornerstone Press)

SCHOLARSHIP/MYTH

• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
• Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination, Richard Mathews (Twayne)
• Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination, S. T. Joshi (Greenwood Press)
• The Supernatural and English Fiction, Glen Cavaliero (Oxford University Press)