Winner:Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, Dimitra Fimi (Palgrave Macmillan)
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, Douglas Charles Kane (Lehigh University Press)
Charles Williams: Alchemy and Imagination, Gavin Ashenden (Kent State)
The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth, Elizabeth A. Whittingham (McFarland)
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Michael Ward (Oxford)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
Winner:One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card, Marek Oziewicz (McFarland)
Lilith in a New Light: Essays on the George MacDonald Fantasy Novel, Lucas H. Harriman (McFarland)
Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance, Leslie A. Sconduto (McFarland)
Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale, Caroline Sumpter (Palgrave Macmillan)