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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2016

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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 Title Type Authors
1 135 Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction NONFICTION Michael M. Levy and Farah Mendlesohn
2 130 The Geek Feminist Revolution NONFICTION Kameron Hurley
3 120 Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 NONFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
4 105 Tolkien's Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth NONFICTION Lisa Coutras
5 85 Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula NONFICTION David J. Skal
6 79 Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life NONFICTION Ruth Franklin
7 70 Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature NONFICTION Aisling Byrne
8 70 Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" NONFICTION Jane Chance
9 59 The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction NONFICTION Neil Gaiman
10 56 The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume Two: Gods & Goddesses NONFICTION Malcolm R. Phifer and Michael C. Phifer
11 54 Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg NONFICTION Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
12 50 En regiones extrañas: Un mapa de la ciencia ficción, lo fantástico y lo maravilloso NONFICTION Lola Robles
13 50
SFのSは、ステキのS?SF no S ha, Suteki no S
SF no S wa, Suteki no S
NONFICTION
池澤春菜?いけざわはるな
Ikezawa Haruna
14 50 Du yéti au calmar géant : le bestiaire énigmatique de la cryptozoologie NONFICTION Benoît Grison
15 50 Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie NONFICTION Charles Vess
16 50 Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church NONFICTION Richard Firth Green
17 50 The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower NONFICTION Kate Forsyth
18 35 Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds NONFICTION Leo Braudy
19 35 This Spectacular Darkness NONFICTION Joel Lane
20 35 In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft NONFICTION W. Scott Poole
21 35 Dentro del laberinto friki: Una mirada sociologica a la cultura friki en España NONFICTION Cristina Martínez
22 35 H. P. Lovecraft, el caminante de Providence NONFICTION Roberto García Álvarez
23 35 Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION John Fleskes
24 35 The Princess Diarist NONFICTION Carrie Fisher
25 35 Pour une histoire des possibles : analyses contrefactuelles et futurs non advenus NONFICTION Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou
26 35 The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub NONFICTION John C. Tibbetts
27 35 Les ombres du fantastique : fictions d'Irlande NONFICTION Claude Fierobe
28 35 The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film NONFICTION Danel Olson
29 35 Cinema hermetica NONFICTION Pacôme Thiellement
30 30 Richard Matheson: El maestro de la paranoia NONFICTION Sergi Grau
31 29 Octavia E. Butler NONFICTION Gerry Canavan
32 29 Homo Tenuis NONFICTION Francisco Jota-Pérez
33 28 Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined NONFICTION Ron Miller
34 28 Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie NONFICTION Brandon Alinger and Wade Lageose and David Mandel and Ralph McQuarrie
35 26 Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 NONFICTION Mike Ashley
36 26 Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations NONFICTION
天野喜孝?あまのよしたか
Amano Yoshitaka
37 25 Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law NONFICTION Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
38 25 Time Travel: A History NONFICTION James Gleick
39 24 Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book NONFICTION Kinuko Y. Craft
40 24 Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction NONFICTION André M. Carrington
41 24 The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition NONFICTION Adam Roberts
42 23 Making Conversation NONFICTION Teresa Nielsen Hayden
43 23 The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them NONFICTION Dermot Power
44 23 Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom NONFICTION Jean-Baptiste Monge
45 21 Alfred Bester NONFICTION Jad Smith
46 20 The Merril Theory of Lit'ry Criticism NONFICTION Judith Merril
47 20 Flying Saucers Are Real!: The UFO Library of Jack Womack NONFICTION Jack Womack
48 20 The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art of Patrick J. Jones NONFICTION Patrick J. Jones
49 1 The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 NONFICTION Jon Towlson
50 1 A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts NONFICTION J. W. Ocker
51 1 Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years NONFICTION uncredited
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