ADULT LITERATURE

• Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• The Fall of the Kings, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman (Bantam Spectra)
• A Fistful of Sky, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)
• Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Tor)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

• Summerland, Michael Chabon (Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children)
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt)
• The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, Holly Black (Simon & Schuster)

INKLINGS STUDIES

• Beowulf and the Critics, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)
• C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse, Don W. King (Kent State University Press)
• Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds, Peter J. Schakel (University of Missouri Press)
• J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances, George Makana Clark & Daniel Timmons, eds. (Greenwood Press)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

• Fairytale in the Ancient World, Graham Anderson (Routledge)
• A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld, Francis Bridger (Image Books)
• The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts, Thomas C. Peters (Ignatius Press)
• Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake, G. Peter Winnington (Peter Owen)