ADULT LITERATURE

• Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden; In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
• Chronicles of Chaos Orphans of Chaos; Fugitives of Chaos; Titans of Chaos, John C. Wright (Tor)
• In the Forest of Forgetting, Theodora Goss (Prime Books)
• The New Moon's Arms, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)
• Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

• The Harry Potter Series, J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
• Dussie, Nancy Springer (Walker)
• The New Policeman, Kate Thompson (HarperTeen)
• Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy (HarperCollins)
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale; Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie; Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale, Holly Black (Simon & Schuster)

INKLINGS STUDIES

• 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 (HarperCollins)
• 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)
• The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall & Edmund Weiner (Oxford University Press)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

• 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)