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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 The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower NONFICTION Kate Forsyth
13 50 En regiones extrañas: Un mapa de la ciencia ficción, lo fantástico y lo maravilloso NONFICTION Lola Robles
14 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
15 50 Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church NONFICTION Richard Firth Green
16 50 Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie NONFICTION Charles Vess
17 50 Du yéti au calmar géant : le bestiaire énigmatique de la cryptozoologie NONFICTION Benoît Grison
18 35 Cinema hermetica NONFICTION Pacôme Thiellement
19 35 In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft NONFICTION W. Scott Poole
20 35 Dentro del laberinto friki: Una mirada sociologica a la cultura friki en España NONFICTION Cristina Martínez
21 35 Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION John Fleskes
22 35 Pour une histoire des possibles : analyses contrefactuelles et futurs non advenus NONFICTION Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou
23 35 Les ombres du fantastique : fictions d'Irlande NONFICTION Claude Fierobe
24 35 The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film NONFICTION Danel Olson
25 35 This Spectacular Darkness NONFICTION Joel Lane
26 35 H. P. Lovecraft, el caminante de Providence NONFICTION Roberto García Álvarez
27 35 The Princess Diarist NONFICTION Carrie Fisher
28 35 The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub NONFICTION John C. Tibbetts
29 35 Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds NONFICTION Leo Braudy
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 The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition NONFICTION Adam Roberts
41 24 Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction NONFICTION André M. Carrington
42 23 Making Conversation NONFICTION Teresa Nielsen Hayden
43 23 Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom NONFICTION Jean-Baptiste Monge
44 23 The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them NONFICTION Dermot Power
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 Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years NONFICTION uncredited
50 1 The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 NONFICTION Jon Towlson
51 1 A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts NONFICTION J. W. Ocker
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