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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2020

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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 85 It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? NONFICTION Adam Roberts
2 85 Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre NONFICTION Alison Peirse
3 70 The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth NONFICTION John Garth
4 70 Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction NONFICTION F. T. Barbini
5 70 The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest NONFICTION Paul Kincaid
6 61 Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach NONFICTION J. R. Burgmann and Andrew Milner
7 52 The Monster Theory Reader NONFICTION Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
8 51 The Magic of Terry Pratchett NONFICTION Marc Burrows
9 50 The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World NONFICTION Cait Coker
10 50 Kaiju, envahisseurs & apocalypse: L'âge d'or de la science-fiction japonaise NONFICTION Fabien Mauro
11 50 NONFICTION
12 50 Writing in the Dark NONFICTION Tim Waggoner
13 50 The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions NONFICTION Piers Bizony
14 50 First Fandom Annual 2020 NONFICTION John L. Coker, III and Jon D. Swartz
15 36 Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space NONFICTION Amanda Leduc
16 35 End of the Road NONFICTION Brian Keene
17 35 A Handful of Earth a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler NONFICTION Lynell George
18 35 NONFICTION
19 35 Comment parle un robot? NONFICTION
Frédéric Landragin?Frederic Landragin
20 35 The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
21 35 1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 NONFICTION Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
22 35 The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity NONFICTION Jon Peterson
23 35 The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films NONFICTION Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl
24 35 From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come NONFICTION John C. Wright
25 35 Henry Darger: Dans les royaumes de l'irréel NONFICTION
Xavier Mauméjean?Xavier Maumejean
26 35 Ourod: Autopsie culturelle des monstres en Russie NONFICTION Annick Morard
27 35 Fantastical Worlds and Futures at the World's Edge: A History of New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy NONFICTION Simon Litten and Sean McMullen
28 35 CoNZealand: 78th World Science Fiction Convention NONFICTION M. Darusha Wehm
29 35 The Hobbit Sketchbook NONFICTION Alan Lee
30 35 Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century NONFICTION Isiah Lavender, III and Lisa Yaszek
31 35 The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 NONFICTION Kathryn Hume
32 30 The Dark Crystal Bestiary: A Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thara NONFICTION Adam Cesare
33 30 Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation NONFICTION Katherine E. Bishop and David Higgins and Jerry Määttä
34 29 The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: The 1930s NONFICTION Daniel Ritter and David Ritter
35 29 Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION Katherine Chu and John Fleskes
36 29 Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre NONFICTION Kerry Fine and Michael K. Johnson and Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon
37 28 Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta NONFICTION J. David Spurlock
38 26 Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of British Science Fiction in 100 Books NONFICTION Mike Ashley
39 26 The Art of Frank Cho NONFICTION Frank Cho
40 25 Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek NONFICTION Walter Koenig
41 25 Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration NONFICTION Jesse Kowalski
42 24 Bradbury Beyond Apollo NONFICTION Jonathan R. Eller
43 24 Masterpieces of Fantasy Art NONFICTION Dian Hanson
44 22 The Earliest Bradbury NONFICTION Daniel Ritter and David Ritter
45 21 Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996 NONFICTION Algis Budrys
46 20 The Mountain of Smoke: A Jeffrey Alan Love Sketchbook NONFICTION Jeffrey Alan Love
47 20 A Field Guide to Draco Floris Dragons NONFICTION Annie Stegg Gerard
48 20 The Return of Hyper Comics NONFICTION Steve Stiles
49 20 Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre NONFICTION Jess Nevins
50 19 The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained NONFICTION Colin Dickey
51 18 The Star Wars Archives 1999–2005 NONFICTION Paul Duncan
52 18 Beneath the Waves NONFICTION Jon Schindehette
53 1 NONFICTION
54 1 NONFICTION
55 1 Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold NONFICTION Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack
56 1
Pierre Christin: Le grand rénovateur du récit en bande dessinée?Pierre Christin: Le grand renovateur du recit en bande dessinee
NONFICTION Frédéric Bosser
57 1 Kirbysphère NONFICTION Xavier Fournier
58 1 Dans les imaginaires du Futur NONFICTION Ariel Kyrou
59 1 Cyberpunk: Histoire(s) d'un futur imminent NONFICTION
Stéphanie Chaptal?Stephanie Chaptal
and Sylvain Nawrocki and Jean Zeid
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