ADULT LITERATURE

• Sunshine, Robin McKinley (Berkley)
• Changing Planes, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
• Fudoki, Kij Johnson (Tor)
• In the Forests of Serre, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

• The Hollow Kingdom, Clare B. Dunkle (Henry Holt)
• The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
• Inkheart, Cornelia Funke (The Chicken House)
• The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
• The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)

INKLINGS STUDIES

• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, John Garth (Houghton Mifflin)
• C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse, Don W. King (Kent State University Press)
• Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings, Matthew Dickerson, ed. (Brazos Press)
• Tolkien the Medievalist, Jane Chance, ed. (Routledge)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

• The Myth of the American Superhero, John Shelton Lawrence & Robert Jewett (Eerdmans)
• Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life, Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf)
• Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100, Margaret Mackey, ed. (Scarecrow Press)
• A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld, Francis Bridger (Image Books)
• National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-century England, Jennifer Schacker (University of Pennsylvania Press)
• Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most, William Patrick Day (University Press of Kentucky)