| | ADULT FANTASY |
| 2007 | Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip
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| 2006 | Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
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| 2005 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
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| 2004 | Sunshine, Robin McKinley
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| 2003 | Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip
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| 2002 | The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
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| 2001 | The Innamorati, Midori Snyder
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| 2000 | Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle
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| 1999 | Stardust, Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
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| 1998 | The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, A. S. Byatt
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| 1997 | The Wood Wife, Terri Windling
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| 1996 | Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
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| 1995 | Something Rich and Strange, Patricia A. McKillip
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| 1994 | The Porcelain Dove, Delia Sherman
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| 1993 | Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
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| 1992 | A Woman of the Iron People, Eleanor Arnason
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| 1991 | Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner
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| 1990 | The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
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| 1989 | Unicorn Mountain, Michael Bishop
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| 1988 | Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card
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| 1987 | The Folk of the Air, Peter S. Beagle
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| 1986 | Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
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| 1985 | Cards of Grief, Jane Yolen
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| 1984 | When Voiha Wakes, Joy Chant
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| 1983 | The Firelings, Carol Kendall
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| 1982 | Little, Big, John Crowley
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| 1981 | Unfinished Tales, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
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| 1975 | A Midsummer Tempest, Poul Anderson
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| 1974 | The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart
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| 1973 | The Song of Rhiannon, Evangeline Walton
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| 1972 | Red Moon and Black Mountain, Joy Chant
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| 1971 | The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart
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| | CHILDREN'S FANTASY |
| 2007 | Corbenic, Catherine Fisher
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| 2006 | The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand; The Golem's Eye; Ptolemy's Gate, Jonathan Stroud
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| 2005 | A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett
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| 2004 | The Hollow Kingdom, Clare B. Dunkle
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| 2003 | Summerland, Michael Chabon
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| 2002 | The Ropemaker, Peter Dickinson
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| 2001 | Aria of the Sea, Dia Calhoun
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| 2000 | The Folk Keeper, Franny Billingsley
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| 1999 | Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones
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| 1998 | "Young Merlin" trilogy: Passager; Hobby; Merlin, Jane Yolen
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| 1996 | The Crown of Dalemark, Diana Wynne Jones
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| 1995 | Owl in Love, Patrice Kindl
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| 1994 | The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, Suzy McKee Charnas
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| 1993 | Knight's Wyrd, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald
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| 1992 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
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| | SCHOLARSHIP/INKLING STUDIES |
| 2007 | The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, Christina Schull & Wayne G. Hammond
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| 2006 | The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull
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| 2005 | War and the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Janet Brennan Croft
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| 2004 | Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, John Garth
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| 2003 | Beowulf and the Critics, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout
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| 2002 | Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, Verlyn Flieger & Carl F. Hostetter, eds.
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| 2001 | J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, Tom Shippey
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| 2000 | Roverandom, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond & Christina
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| 1999 | C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper
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| 1998 | A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to "Faërie", Verlyn Flieger
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| 1997 | The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, Charles A. Huttar & Peter Schakel, eds.
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| 1996 | J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull
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| 1995 | C.S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers
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| 1994 | J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, Wayne G. Hammond & Douglas A. Anderson
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| 1993 | Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy, David C. Downing
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| 1992 | Word and Story in C.S. Lewis, Peter J. Schakel & Charles A. Huttar, eds.
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| 1991 | Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times, George Sayer
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| 1990 | The Annotated Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson, annotator
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| 1989 | The Return of the Shadow, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
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| 1988 | C.S. Lewis, Joe R. Christopher
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| 1987 | J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion, Richard Purtill
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| 1986 | Charles Williams, Poet of Theology, Glen Cavaliero
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| 1985 | Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis, Peter J. Schakel
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| 1984 | The Road to Middle-earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology, Tom Shippey
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| 1983 | Companion to Narnia, Paul F. Ford
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| 1982 | The Inklings, Humphrey Carpenter
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| 1981 | Christopher Tolkien
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| 1976 | Charles W.S.Williams, A Checklist, Lois Glenn
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| 1976 | C.S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist, J. R. Christopher & Joan K. Olstling
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| 1976 | Tolkien Criticism, Richard C. West
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| 1974 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christian, Kathryn A. Lindskoog
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| 1973 | Master of Middle-earth, Paul H. Kocher
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| 1972 | Walter Hooper
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| 1971 | C. S. Kilby
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| 1971 | Mary McDermott Shideler
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| | MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES |
| 2007 | Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival, G. Ronald Murphy
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| 2006 | National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England, Jennifer Schacker
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| 2005 | Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Stephen Thomas Knight
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| 2004 | The Myth of the American Superhero, John Shelton Lawrence & Robert Jewett
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| 2003 | Fairytale in the Ancient World, Graham Anderson
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| 2002 | The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales, G. Ronald Murphy
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| 2001 | King Arthur in America, Alan Lupack & Barbara Tepa Lupack
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| 2000 | Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Carole G. Silver
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| 1999 | A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature, Donna R. White
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| 1998 | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds.
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| 1997 | When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development, Lois Rostow Kuznets
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| 1996 | From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Marina Warner
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| 1995 | Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World, James Roy King
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| 1994 | Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature, Kath Filmer, ed.
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| 1993 | Strategies of Fantasy, Brian Attebery
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| 1992 | The Victorian Fantasists, Kath Filmer, ed.
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