Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey, John Rosegrant (Kent State University Press)
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth, John Garth (Princeton University Press)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
Winner:Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend, Daniel Ogden (Oxford University Press)
Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present, Hadas Elber-Aviram (Bloomsbury Academic)
Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media, Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery & Teresa Dedinová, eds. (Bloomsbury Academic)
Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy, Matthew Oliver (McFarland)
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature, Taylor Driggers (Bloomsbury Academic)