Announcements: Finalists (July 2) | Winners (August 12) | Acceptance Remarks

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All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman *
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Metallic Love by Tanith Lee
• The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl by Tim Pratt

Children’s Literature

• The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud * (consisting of The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, and Ptolemy's Gate)
• Valiant by Holly Black
• Wizards at War by Diane Duane
• By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull *
• Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns
• Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology by Verlyn Flieger
• Smith of Wootton Major: Expanded Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger
• The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker *
• The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast by Jerry Griswold
• Readers in Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds of Fantasy Fiction from Dorothy to Harry Potter by Deborah O’Keefe
• The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy by David R. Loy & Linda Goodhew