Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2000

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
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	Title	Type	Authors
1	152	At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub	NONFICTION	Bill Sheehan
2	136	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft	NONFICTION	Stephen King
3	105	J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: View of Middle-Earth	NONFICTION	George Clark and Daniel Timmons
4	88	Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science	NONFICTION	Damien Broderick
5	85	Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-Earth	NONFICTION	Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
6	85	Fairytale in the Ancient World	NONFICTION	Graham Anderson
7	80	Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton	NONFICTION	Bob Eggleton and Nigel Suckling
8	70	Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion	NONFICTION	James Gifford
9	58	The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales	NONFICTION	Jack Zipes
10	53	Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature	NONFICTION	Andrew M. Butler and Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
11	51	Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake	NONFICTION	G. Peter Winnington
12	50	もっとすごい科学で守ります!?Motto Sugoi Kagaku de Mamorimasu! もっとすごいかがくでまもります!	NONFICTION	長谷川裕一?Hasegawa Yūichi Hasegawa Yuuichi Hasegawa Yuichi はせがわゆういち
13	50	The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales	NONFICTION	G. Ronald Murphy
14	50	日本SF論争史?にほんSFろんそうし Nihon SF Ronsōshi Nihon SF Ronsoushi	NONFICTION	巽孝之?たつみたかゆき Tatsumi Takayuki
15	50	Dracula: Sense & Nonsense	NONFICTION	Elizabeth Miller
16	50	Wild Hairs	NONFICTION	David J. Schow
17	50	Paradojas: Ciencia en la ciencia-ficción	NONFICTION	Miquel Barceló
18	50	Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	NONFICTION	Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
19	36	Writing Horror	NONFICTION	Edo van Belkom
20	36	Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It	NONFICTION	Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Freas
21	35	The Crisis and the Quest: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams	NONFICTION	Stephen M. Dunning
22	35	Entretiens avec Jules Verne	NONFICTION	Daniel Compère?Daniel Compere and Jean-Michel Margot
23	35	De Melmoth à Dracula : la littérature fantastique irlandaise au XIXe siècle	NONFICTION	Claude Fierobe
24	35	Philosophie et science-fiction	NONFICTION	Gilbert Hottois
25	35	La scoperta dell'ombra	NONFICTION	Roberto Casati
26	35	La novela popular en España	NONFICTION	Fernando Eguidazu
27	35	Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey	NONFICTION	Daniel Keyes
28	35	The Christian Imagination: G. K. Chesterton on the Arts	NONFICTION	Thomas C. Peters
29	35	Alfred E. Van Vogt: Parcours d'une œuvre?Alfred E. Van Vogt: Parcours d'une oeuvre	NONFICTION	Joseph Altairac
30	35	Tim Burton	NONFICTION	Mitch Le Blanc and Colin Odell
31	30	What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick	NONFICTION	Philip K. Dick and Gwen Lee and Doris Elaine Sauter
32	30	X-Men: El precio de un sueño	NONFICTION	Julián María Clemente and Lorenzo F. Díaz
33	29	The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950	NONFICTION	Mike Ashley
34	29	Exobiología: Manual de la flota estelar	NONFICTION	Manuel Á. González
35	29	Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography	NONFICTION	A. E. Cunningham
36	28	Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts Into Silk Purse Stories	NONFICTION	Mike Resnick
37	28	Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History	NONFICTION	Ron Goulart
38	26	Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics	NONFICTION	Julius Schwartz and Brian M. Thomsen
39	26	Inner Visions: The Art of Ron Walotsky	NONFICTION	Ron Walotsky
40	25	Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Gary Westfahl
41	25	The Art of Rowena	NONFICTION	Rowena Morrill and Doris Vallejo
42	22	The Strange Case of Edward Gorey	NONFICTION	Alexander Theroux
43	22	The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines	NONFICTION	Peter Haining
44	22	Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics	NONFICTION	Alisa Kwitney
45	21	Critical Theory and Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Carl Freedman
46	21	Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950	NONFICTION	Neil Wilson
47	20	Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore	NONFICTION	Stephen Gallagher and Chris Moore
48	20	French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction: A Guide to Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present	NONFICTION	Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier
49	18	The Artful Dodger: Images & Reflections	NONFICTION	Nick Bantock
50	1	Mass: The Art of John Harris	NONFICTION	John Harris and Ron Tiner
51	1	The Sandman Companion: A Dreamer's Guide to the Award-Winning Comic Series	NONFICTION	Hy Bender
52	1	This Craft of Verse	NONFICTION	Jorge Luis Borges
53	1	The Circus Fire: A True Story	NONFICTION	Stewart O'Nan
54	1	Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future	NONFICTION	Norman Brosterman

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