Announcements: Finalists (May 17, 2022) | Winners (July 31, 2022) | Acceptance Remarks

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All Book Award Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (Tor, 2021)
• Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars (Tor Books, 2021)
• P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Tor.com, 2021)
• Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury, 2020)
• Garth Nix, Terciel and Elinor (Katherine Tegen Books, 2021)
• Jo Walton, Or What You Will (Tor 2020)

Children’s Literature

• Sayantani DasGupta, the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond trilogy (Scholastic, 2018–2020)
• Regina Hansen, The Coming Storm (Athenium, 2021)
• Lori M. Lee, Pahua and the Soul Stealer (Rick Riordan Presents, 2021)
• Eden Royce, Root Magic (Walden Pond Press, 2021)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Paul S. Fiddes, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• John Garth, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas (Kent State University Press, 2021)
• Holly Ordway, Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (Word on Fire, 2021)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Philip Ball, The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
• Hadas Elber-Aviram, Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
• Daniel Ogden, The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games (New York University Press, 2019)
• Joseph Rex Young, George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (Routledge, 2019)