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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction of the 2020s

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Year Title Type Authors
1 101 2021 Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 NONFICTION Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
2 85 2021 Writers Workshop of Horror 2 NONFICTION Michael Knost
3 85 2020 It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? NONFICTION Adam Roberts
4 85 2020 Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre NONFICTION Alison Peirse
5 70 2020 Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction NONFICTION F. T. Barbini
6 70 2020 The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest NONFICTION Paul Kincaid
7 70 2020 The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth NONFICTION John Garth
8 64 2021 Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color NONFICTION Joy Sanchez-Taylor
9 61 2020 Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach NONFICTION J. R. Burgmann and Andrew Milner
10 57 2021 The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture NONFICTION Mark Bould
11 53 2021 The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination NONFICTION Philip Ball
12 52 2020 The Monster Theory Reader NONFICTION Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
13 51 2020 The Magic of Terry Pratchett NONFICTION Marc Burrows
14 50 2021 The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess' Stardust NONFICTION Charles Vess
15 50 2021 Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction NONFICTION F. T. Barbini
16 50 2020 Writing in the Dark NONFICTION Tim Waggoner
17 50 2020 First Fandom Annual 2020 NONFICTION John L. Coker, III and Jon D. Swartz
18 50 2020 NONFICTION
19 50 2020 Kaiju, envahisseurs & apocalypse: L'âge d'or de la science-fiction japonaise NONFICTION Fabien Mauro
20 50 2020 The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions NONFICTION Piers Bizony
21 50 2020 The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World NONFICTION Cait Coker
22 36 2021 Never Say You Can't Survive NONFICTION Charlie Jane Anders
23 36 2020 Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space NONFICTION Amanda Leduc
24 35 2021 Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
25 35 2021 Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present NONFICTION Hadas Elber-Aviram
26 35 2021 The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend NONFICTION Daniel Ogden
27 35 2021 Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages NONFICTION Holly Ordway
28 35 2021 The Conjuring NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
29 35 2021 A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas NONFICTION Peter Grybauskas
30 35 2021 Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence NONFICTION Paul S. Fiddes
31 35 2021 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels NONFICTION Danel Olson
32 35 2021 The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic NONFICTION Clive Bloom
33 35 2021 Roger Zelazny NONFICTION F. Brett Cox
34 35 2021 NONFICTION
35 35 2021 Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades NONFICTION Anna McFarlane
36 35 2021 Apparitions: Les archives de la France hantée NONFICTION Philippe Baudouin
37 35 2021 Les pouvoirs de l'enchantement NONFICTION Anne Besson
38 35 2021 Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema NONFICTION Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
39 35 2021 Shirley Jackson: A Companion NONFICTION Kristopher Woofter
40 35 2021 Le livre des préfaces NONFICTION
Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein
41 35 2021 James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste NONFICTION Thierry Paquot
42 35 2021 Apocalypse show, quand l'Amérique s'effondre NONFICTION Anne-Lise Melquiond
43 35 2020 NONFICTION
44 35 2020 A Handful of Earth a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler NONFICTION Lynell George
45 35 2020 From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come NONFICTION John C. Wright
46 35 2020 The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 NONFICTION Kathryn Hume
47 35 2020 End of the Road NONFICTION Brian Keene
48 35 2020 The Hobbit Sketchbook NONFICTION Alan Lee
49 35 2020 Ourod: Autopsie culturelle des monstres en Russie NONFICTION Annick Morard
50 35 2020 The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity NONFICTION Jon Peterson
51 35 2020 Henry Darger: Dans les royaumes de l'irréel NONFICTION
Xavier Mauméjean?Xavier Maumejean
52 35 2020 Comment parle un robot? NONFICTION
Frédéric Landragin?Frederic Landragin
53 35 2020 The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
54 35 2020 Fantastical Worlds and Futures at the World's Edge: A History of New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy NONFICTION Simon Litten and Sean McMullen
55 35 2020 Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century NONFICTION Isiah Lavender, III and Lisa Yaszek
56 35 2020 1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 NONFICTION Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
57 35 2020 The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films NONFICTION Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl
58 35 2020 CoNZealand: 78th World Science Fiction Convention NONFICTION M. Darusha Wehm
59 30 2021 Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age NONFICTION Valerie Estelle Frankel
60 30 2020 Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation NONFICTION Katherine E. Bishop and David Higgins and Jerry Määttä
61 30 2020 The Dark Crystal Bestiary: A Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thara NONFICTION Adam Cesare
62 29 2020 Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre NONFICTION Kerry Fine and Michael K. Johnson and Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon
63 29 2020 The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: The 1930s NONFICTION Daniel Ritter and David Ritter
64 29 2020 Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION Katherine Chu and John Fleskes
65 28 2021 Gothic: An Illustrated History NONFICTION Roger Luckhurst
66 28 2020 Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta NONFICTION J. David Spurlock
67 27 2021 Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw NONFICTION Hua Li
68 26 2020 Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of British Science Fiction in 100 Books NONFICTION Mike Ashley
69 26 2020 The Art of Frank Cho NONFICTION Frank Cho
70 25 2021 The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World NONFICTION Claire Tomalin
71 25 2020 Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration NONFICTION Jesse Kowalski
72 25 2020 Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek NONFICTION Walter Koenig
73 24 2021 Monstrous Mythologies NONFICTION Michael Bukowski
74 24 2021 After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin NONFICTION Thomas Connolly
75 24 2020 Masterpieces of Fantasy Art NONFICTION Dian Hanson
76 24 2020 Bradbury Beyond Apollo NONFICTION Jonathan R. Eller
77 23 2021 You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice NONFICTION Angela Slatter
78 22 2021 Forgotten Gods: The Art of Yoann Lossel NONFICTION Yoann Lossel
79 22 2020 The Earliest Bradbury NONFICTION Daniel Ritter and David Ritter
80 21 2021 Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living as a Writer NONFICTION M. Huw Evans and Tod McCoy
81 21 2021 Kay Nielsen: An Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection NONFICTION Meghan Melvin and Kay Nielsen
82 21 2020 Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996 NONFICTION Algis Budrys
83 20 2021 "More About Writing" and Other Essays NONFICTION Samuel R. Delany
84 20 2020 Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre NONFICTION Jess Nevins
85 20 2020 The Return of Hyper Comics NONFICTION Steve Stiles
86 20 2020 The Mountain of Smoke: A Jeffrey Alan Love Sketchbook NONFICTION Jeffrey Alan Love
87 20 2020 A Field Guide to Draco Floris Dragons NONFICTION Annie Stegg Gerard
88 19 2021 John Howe's Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy NONFICTION John Howe
89 19 2021 All of the Marvels NONFICTION Douglas Wolk
90 19 2020 The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained NONFICTION Colin Dickey
91 18 2021 Infected by Art: Volume 9 NONFICTION Bill Cox and Jon Schindehette and Todd Spoor
92 18 2020 Beneath the Waves NONFICTION Jon Schindehette
93 18 2020 The Star Wars Archives 1999–2005 NONFICTION Paul Duncan
94 17 2021 Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings NONFICTION Joe Sanders
95 1 2021 Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism NONFICTION Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
96 1 2021 True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee NONFICTION Abraham Riesman
97 1 2021 Ursula K. Le Guin: De l'autre côté des mots NONFICTION David Meulemans
98 1 2021 Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 1 NONFICTION Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
99 1 2021 Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 2 NONFICTION Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
100 1 2021 L'épopée littéraire des frères Boex: Bibliographie de J.-H. Rosny aîné et J.-H. Rosny jeune NONFICTION Fabrice Mundzik
101 1 2021 L'altération des mondes: Version de Philip K. Dick NONFICTION David Lapoujade
102 1 2021 The Complete Debarkle: 1880 to 2020 NONFICTION Camestros Felapton
103 1 2020 Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold NONFICTION Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack
104 1 2020 NONFICTION
105 1 2020 NONFICTION
106 1 2020 Cyberpunk: Histoire(s) d'un futur imminent NONFICTION
Stéphanie Chaptal?Stephanie Chaptal
and Sylvain Nawrocki and Jean Zeid
107 1 2020 Dans les imaginaires du Futur NONFICTION Ariel Kyrou
108 1 2020
Pierre Christin: Le grand rénovateur du récit en bande dessinée?Pierre Christin: Le grand renovateur du recit en bande dessinee
NONFICTION Frédéric Bosser
109 1 2020 Kirbysphère NONFICTION Xavier Fournier
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