ADULT LITERATURE

• Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• The Line Between, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• The Necessary Beggar, Susan Palwick (Tor)
• The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese)
• Three Days to Never, Tim Powers (Morrow)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

• Corbenic, Catherine Fisher (Greenwillow)
• Keturah and Lord Death, Martine Leavitt (Front Street)
• The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow)
• Spirits that Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
• Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (HarperTeen)

INKLINGS STUDIES

• The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, Christina Schull & Wayne G. Hammond (Houghton Mifflin)
• Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology, Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press)
• Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth, Marjorie Burns (University of Toronto Press)
• The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall & Edmund Weiner (Oxford University Press)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

• Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival, G. Ronald Murphy (Oxford University Press)
• Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper, Charles Butler (Scarecrow Press)
• The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Milly Williamson (Wallflower)
• The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook, Jerry Griswold (Broadview Press)
• Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography, Simon Blaxland-de Lange (Temple Lodge)