Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2008

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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	220	Rhetorics of Fantasy	NONFICTION	Farah Mendlesohn
2	129	What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Paul Kincaid
3	120	Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis	NONFICTION	Michael Ward
4	85	The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale	NONFICTION	Caroline Sumpter
5	70	Tolkien on Fairy-Stories	NONFICTION	Douglas A. Anderson and Verlyn Flieger
6	70	Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration	NONFICTION	Gavin Ashenden
7	63	Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	NONFICTION	Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
8	56	Miracles of Life	NONFICTION	J. G. Ballard
9	55	The Vorkosigan Companion	NONFICTION	Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers
10	50	Basil Copper: A Life in Books	NONFICTION	Stephen Jones
11	50	Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula	NONFICTION	Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller
12	50	The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic	NONFICTION	Martin Grams, Jr.
13	50	Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits	NONFICTION	Dimitra Fimi
14	50	Rote Blaupausen: Eine kurze Geschichte der sozialistischen Utopien	NONFICTION	Wolfgang Both
15	50	世界のSFがやって来た!! ニッポンコン・ファイル2007?Sekai no SF ga Yatte Kita!! Nippon Kon Fairu 2007 Sekai no Esu Efu ga Yatte Kita!! Nippon Kon Fairu 2007 せかいのSFがやってきた!! ニッポンコン・ファイル2007	NONFICTION	小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo and 日本SF作家クラブ?にほんSFさっかクラブ Nihon SF Sakka Kurabu Nihon Esu Efu Sakka Kurabu
16	50	Del folletín al bolsilibro: 50 años de novela popular española (1900-1950)	NONFICTION	Fernando Eguidazu
17	50	Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008	NONFICTION	John Scalzi
18	36	The Book of Lists: Horror	NONFICTION	Scott Bradley and Del Howison and Amy Wallace
19	36	Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale	NONFICTION	Benjamin Cook and Russell T. Davies
20	35	Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets	NONFICTION	Gregory Lamberson
21	35	Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction	NONFICTION	Jason Marc Harris
22	35	Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films	NONFICTION	Roz Kaveney
23	35	The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahaha!	NONFICTION	Anna C. Long and Daniel H. Wilson
24	35	Les nombreuses vies de Conan	NONFICTION	Simon Sanahujas
25	35	Dragons et chimères : carnets d'expédition	NONFICTION	Pierre Dubois
26	35	Les créatures artificielles : des automates aux mondes virtuels	NONFICTION	Jean-Claude Heudin
27	35	Dans les griffes de la Hammer: La France livrée au cinéma d'épouvante	NONFICTION	Nicolas Stanzick
28	35	Lilith in a New Light: Essays on the George MacDonald Fantasy Novel	NONFICTION	Lucas H. Harriman
29	35	It Lives Again!: Horror Movies in the New Millennium	NONFICTION	Axelle Carolyn
30	35	Jean-Louis Trudel	NONFICTION	Sophie Beaulé
31	35	Through the Keyhole: 25 Years of Keycon Memories	NONFICTION	Jennifer Ennis
32	35	Zombie CSU	NONFICTION	Jonathan Maberry
33	29	J. R. R. Tolkien: Mitopoeia y mitología: Reflexiones bajo la luz refractada	NONFICTION	Eduardo Segura Fernández
34	27	Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman	NONFICTION	Stephen R. Bissette and Christopher Golden and Hank Wagner
35	25	H. Beam Piper: A Biography	NONFICTION	John F. Carr
36	24	A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft	NONFICTION	Jerad Walters
37	19	The Paintings of J. Allen St. John: Grand Master of Fantasy	NONFICTION	Stephen D. Korshak and J. David Spurlock and J. Allen St. John
38	18	The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia	NONFICTION	Laura Miller
39	17	Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography	NONFICTION	Jeffrey Marks
40	16	Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art	NONFICTION	Jane Frank
41	1	I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television	NONFICTION	Tom Weaver
42	1	Videodrome: Studies in the Horror Film	NONFICTION	Tim Lucas
43	1	Secrets of Deltora: Exploring the Land of Dragons	NONFICTION	Marc McBride and Emily Rodda
44	1	The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

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