: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
: 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 |
164 |
2021 |
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 |
NONFICTION |
Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
|
| 2 |
85 |
2021 |
Never Say You Can't Survive |
NONFICTION |
Charlie Jane Anders
|
| 3 |
85 |
2021 |
Writers Workshop of Horror 2 |
NONFICTION |
Michael Knost
|
| 4 |
85 |
2021 |
Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
F. T. Barbini
|
| 5 |
85 |
2020 |
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre |
NONFICTION |
Alison Peirse
|
| 6 |
85 |
2020 |
It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? |
NONFICTION |
Adam Roberts
|
| 7 |
70 |
2020 |
The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest |
NONFICTION |
Paul Kincaid
|
| 8 |
70 |
2020 |
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth |
NONFICTION |
John Garth
|
| 9 |
70 |
2020 |
Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
F. T. Barbini
|
| 10 |
64 |
2021 |
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color |
NONFICTION |
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
|
| 11 |
61 |
2020 |
Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach |
NONFICTION |
J. R. Burgmann and Andrew Milner
|
| 12 |
59 |
2021 |
After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin |
NONFICTION |
Thomas Connolly
|
| 13 |
57 |
2021 |
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture |
NONFICTION |
Mark Bould
|
| 14 |
53 |
2021 |
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination |
NONFICTION |
Philip Ball
|
| 15 |
52 |
2020 |
The Monster Theory Reader |
NONFICTION |
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
|
| 16 |
51 |
2020 |
The Magic of Terry Pratchett |
NONFICTION |
Marc Burrows
|
| 17 |
50 |
2021 |
The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess' Stardust |
NONFICTION |
Charles Vess
|
| 18 |
50 |
2021 |
Writing the Uncanny: Essays on Crafting Strange Fiction |
NONFICTION |
Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
|
| 19 |
50 |
2020 |
The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World |
NONFICTION |
Cait Coker
|
| 20 |
50 |
2020 |
|
NONFICTION |
|
| 21 |
50 |
2020 |
The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions |
NONFICTION |
Piers Bizony
|
| 22 |
50 |
2020 |
Kaiju, envahisseurs & apocalypse: L'âge d'or de la science-fiction japonaise |
NONFICTION |
Fabien Mauro
|
| 23 |
50 |
2020 |
Writing in the Dark |
NONFICTION |
Tim Waggoner
|
| 24 |
50 |
2020 |
First Fandom Annual 2020 |
NONFICTION |
John L. Coker, III and Jon D. Swartz
|
| 25 |
36 |
2021 |
Roger Zelazny |
NONFICTION |
F. Brett Cox
|
| 26 |
36 |
2020 |
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space |
NONFICTION |
Amanda Leduc
|
| 27 |
35 |
2021 |
9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels |
NONFICTION |
Danel Olson
|
| 28 |
35 |
2021 |
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism |
NONFICTION |
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
|
| 29 |
35 |
2021 |
Apparitions: Les archives de la France hantée |
NONFICTION |
Philippe Baudouin
|
| 30 |
35 |
2021 |
Les pouvoirs de l'enchantement |
NONFICTION |
Anne Besson
|
| 31 |
35 |
2021 |
Apocalypse show, quand l'Amérique s'effondre |
NONFICTION |
Anne-Lise Melquiond
|
| 32 |
35 |
2021 |
James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste |
NONFICTION |
Thierry Paquot
|
| 33 |
35 |
2021 |
Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence |
NONFICTION |
Paul S. Fiddes
|
| 34 |
35 |
2021 |
A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas |
NONFICTION |
Peter Grybauskas
|
| 35 |
35 |
2021 |
Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages |
NONFICTION |
Holly Ordway
|
| 36 |
35 |
2021 |
The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend |
NONFICTION |
Daniel Ogden
|
| 37 |
35 |
2021 |
Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present |
NONFICTION |
Hadas Elber-Aviram
|
| 38 |
35 |
2021 |
|
NONFICTION |
|
| 39 |
35 |
2021 |
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema |
NONFICTION |
Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
|
| 40 |
35 |
2021 |
Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters |
NONFICTION |
Kevin Wetmore
|
| 41 |
35 |
2021 |
The Conjuring |
NONFICTION |
Kevin Wetmore
|
| 42 |
35 |
2021 |
Shirley Jackson: A Companion |
NONFICTION |
Kristopher Woofter
|
| 43 |
35 |
2021 |
Le livre des préfaces |
NONFICTION |
|
| 44 |
35 |
2021 |
Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades |
NONFICTION |
Anna McFarlane
|
| 45 |
35 |
2021 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic |
NONFICTION |
Clive Bloom
|
| 46 |
35 |
2020 |
CoNZealand: 78th World Science Fiction Convention |
NONFICTION |
M. Darusha Wehm
|
| 47 |
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
|
| 48 |
35 |
2020 |
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century |
NONFICTION |
Isiah Lavender, III and Lisa Yaszek
|
| 49 |
35 |
2020 |
Comment parle un robot? |
NONFICTION |
|
| 50 |
35 |
2020 |
Henry Darger: Dans les royaumes de l'irréel |
NONFICTION |
|
| 51 |
35 |
2020 |
Ourod: Autopsie culturelle des monstres en Russie |
NONFICTION |
Annick Morard
|
| 52 |
35 |
2020 |
The Hobbit Sketchbook |
NONFICTION |
Alan Lee
|
| 53 |
35 |
2020 |
The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 |
NONFICTION |
Kathryn Hume
|
| 54 |
35 |
2020 |
From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come |
NONFICTION |
John C. Wright
|
| 55 |
35 |
2020 |
|
NONFICTION |
|
| 56 |
35 |
2020 |
A Handful of Earth a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler |
NONFICTION |
Lynell George
|
| 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 |
1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 |
NONFICTION |
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
|
| 59 |
35 |
2020 |
End of the Road |
NONFICTION |
Brian Keene
|
| 60 |
35 |
2020 |
The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption |
NONFICTION |
Kevin Wetmore
|
| 61 |
35 |
2020 |
The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity |
NONFICTION |
Jon Peterson
|
| 62 |
30 |
2021 |
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age |
NONFICTION |
Valerie Estelle Frankel
|
| 63 |
30 |
2020 |
Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation |
NONFICTION |
Katherine E. Bishop and David Higgins and Jerry Määttä
|
| 64 |
30 |
2020 |
The Dark Crystal Bestiary: A Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thara |
NONFICTION |
Adam Cesare
|
| 65 |
29 |
2020 |
Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art |
NONFICTION |
Katherine Chu and John Fleskes
|
| 66 |
29 |
2020 |
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: The 1930s |
NONFICTION |
Daniel Ritter and David Ritter
|
| 67 |
29 |
2020 |
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre |
NONFICTION |
Kerry Fine and Michael K. Johnson and Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon
|
| 68 |
28 |
2021 |
Gothic: An Illustrated History |
NONFICTION |
Roger Luckhurst
|
| 69 |
28 |
2021 |
The Complete Debarkle: 1880 to 2020 |
NONFICTION |
Camestros Felapton
|
| 70 |
28 |
2020 |
Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta |
NONFICTION |
J. David Spurlock
|
| 71 |
27 |
2021 |
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee |
NONFICTION |
Abraham Riesman
|
| 72 |
27 |
2021 |
Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw |
NONFICTION |
Hua Li
|
| 73 |
26 |
2021 |
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World |
NONFICTION |
Claire Tomalin
|
| 74 |
26 |
2020 |
Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of British Science Fiction in 100 Books |
NONFICTION |
Mike Ashley
|
| 75 |
26 |
2020 |
The Art of Frank Cho |
NONFICTION |
Frank Cho
|
| 76 |
25 |
2020 |
Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration |
NONFICTION |
Jesse Kowalski
|
| 77 |
25 |
2020 |
Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek |
NONFICTION |
Walter Koenig
|
| 78 |
24 |
2021 |
Monstrous Mythologies |
NONFICTION |
Michael Bukowski
|
| 79 |
24 |
2020 |
Bradbury Beyond Apollo |
NONFICTION |
Jonathan R. Eller
|
| 80 |
24 |
2020 |
Masterpieces of Fantasy Art |
NONFICTION |
Dian Hanson
|
| 81 |
23 |
2021 |
You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice |
NONFICTION |
Angela Slatter
|
| 82 |
22 |
2021 |
Forgotten Gods: The Art of Yoann Lossel |
NONFICTION |
Yoann Lossel
|
| 83 |
22 |
2020 |
The Earliest Bradbury |
NONFICTION |
Daniel Ritter and David Ritter
|
| 84 |
21 |
2021 |
Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living as a Writer |
NONFICTION |
M. Huw Evans and Tod McCoy
|
| 85 |
21 |
2021 |
Kay Nielsen: An Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection |
NONFICTION |
Meghan Melvin and Kay Nielsen
|
| 86 |
21 |
2020 |
Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996 |
NONFICTION |
Algis Budrys
|
| 87 |
20 |
2021 |
"More About Writing" and Other Essays |
NONFICTION |
Samuel R. Delany
|
| 88 |
20 |
2020 |
A Field Guide to Draco Floris Dragons |
NONFICTION |
Annie Stegg Gerard
|
| 89 |
20 |
2020 |
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre |
NONFICTION |
Jess Nevins
|
| 90 |
20 |
2020 |
The Mountain of Smoke: A Jeffrey Alan Love Sketchbook |
NONFICTION |
Jeffrey Alan Love
|
| 91 |
20 |
2020 |
The Return of Hyper Comics |
NONFICTION |
Steve Stiles
|
| 92 |
19 |
2021 |
John Howe's Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy |
NONFICTION |
John Howe
|
| 93 |
19 |
2021 |
All of the Marvels |
NONFICTION |
Douglas Wolk
|
| 94 |
19 |
2020 |
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained |
NONFICTION |
Colin Dickey
|
| 95 |
18 |
2021 |
Infected by Art: Volume 9 |
NONFICTION |
Bill Cox and Jon Schindehette and Todd Spoor
|
| 96 |
18 |
2020 |
The Star Wars Archives 1999–2005 |
NONFICTION |
Paul Duncan
|
| 97 |
18 |
2020 |
Beneath the Waves |
NONFICTION |
Jon Schindehette
|
| 98 |
17 |
2021 |
Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings |
NONFICTION |
Joe Sanders
|
| 99 |
1 |
2021 |
Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 1 |
NONFICTION |
Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
|
| 100 |
1 |
2021 |
Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 2 |
NONFICTION |
Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
|
| 101 |
1 |
2021 |
L'altération des mondes: Version de Philip K. Dick |
NONFICTION |
David Lapoujade
|
| 102 |
1 |
2021 |
Ursula K. Le Guin: De l'autre côté des mots |
NONFICTION |
David Meulemans
|
| 103 |
1 |
2021 |
L'épopée littéraire des frères Boex: Bibliographie de J.-H. Rosny aîné et J.-H. Rosny jeune |
NONFICTION |
Fabrice Mundzik
|
| 104 |
1 |
2021 |
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe |
NONFICTION |
Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
|
| 105 |
1 |
2021 |
Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium |
NONFICTION |
Rachel Cordasco
|
| 106 |
1 |
2020 |
Cyberpunk: Histoire(s) d'un futur imminent |
NONFICTION |
and Sylvain Nawrocki and Jean Zeid
|
| 107 |
1 |
2020 |
Dans les imaginaires du Futur |
NONFICTION |
Ariel Kyrou
|
| 108 |
1 |
2020 |
|
NONFICTION |
Frédéric Bosser
|
| 109 |
1 |
2020 |
|
NONFICTION |
|
| 110 |
1 |
2020 |
|
NONFICTION |
|
| 111 |
1 |
2020 |
Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold |
NONFICTION |
Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack
|
| 112 |
1 |
2020 |
Kirbysphère |
NONFICTION |
Xavier Fournier
|
