Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale; Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie; Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale, Holly Black (Simon & Schuster)
Inklings Studies
Winner:The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, Diana Pavlac Glyer, appendix by David Bratman (Kent State University Press)
The History of the Hobbit, Part One, Mr Baggins; Part Two, Return to Bag-End, John D. Rateliff (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)
Winner:The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous, T. A. Shippey, ed. (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
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)
From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths, Heather O'Donoghue (I.B. Taurus)
The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Milly Williamson (Wallflower)
Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the Frank L. Baum Books, Richard Carl Tuerk (McFarland)