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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2018

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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
1 162 Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth NONFICTION Catherine McIlwaine
2 85 Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing NONFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimon
3 70 A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger NONFICTION John D. Rateliff
4 63 Daydreamer's Journey: The Art of Julie Dillon NONFICTION Julie Dillon
5 62 Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction NONFICTION Alec Nevala-Lee
6 60 An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 NONFICTION Jo Walton
7 60 Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History NONFICTION Kyle Newman and Jon Peterson and Michael Witwer and Sam Witwer
8 55 Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION John Fleskes
9 54 Consciousness and Science Fiction NONFICTION Damien Broderick
10 50 It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life NONFICTION Eugene Johnson and Joe Mynhardt
11 50 The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands NONFICTION Huw Lewis-Jones
12 50 Full Circle NONFICTION John Toon
13 50 Rétrofictions: Encyclopédie de la conjecture romanesque rationnelle francophone, de Rabelais à Barjavel, 1532-1951 NONFICTION Joseph Altairac and Guy Costes
14 50 Libère-toi cyborg ! : Le pouvoir transformateur de la science-fiction féministe NONFICTION Ïan Larue
15 50
筒井康隆、自作を語る?つついやすたか、じさくをかたる
Tsutsui Yasutaka, Jisaku wo Kataru
Tsutsui Yasutaka, Jisaku o Kataru
NONFICTION
筒井康隆?Tsutsui Yasutaka
つつい やすたか
16 50 A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic NONFICTION James Gifford
17 50 I Am Legend As American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations NONFICTION Amy J. Ransom
18 35 Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
19 35 Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy NONFICTION Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson and Michael Partridge
20 35 Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds NONFICTION Jonas Wellendorf
21 35 Horror Express (Panico en el Transiberiana) NONFICTION John Connolly
22 35 Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance NONFICTION Adam Roberts
23 35 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie NONFICTION Ramin Zahed
24 35 Dictionnaire de la fantasy NONFICTION Anne Besson
25 35 Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology NONFICTION Adrienne Mayor
26 35 The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction NONFICTION F. T. Barbini
27 35 The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film NONFICTION Lee Gambin
28 35 Hors des décombres du monde: Écologie, science-fiction et éthique du futur NONFICTION Yannick Rumpala
29 35 We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror NONFICTION Howard David Ingham
30 35 Comment parler à un alien? : Langage et linguistique dans la science-fiction NONFICTION
Frédéric Landragin?Frederic Landragin
31 35 Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature NONFICTION Damien Broderick
32 29 Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin NONFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
33 28 Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece NONFICTION Michael Benson
34 28 A Middle-Earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor NONFICTION John Howe
35 27 Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography-Beyond the Fantasy NONFICTION
天野喜孝?あまのよしたか
Amano Yoshitaka
and Florent Gorges
36 26 Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017) NONFICTION Gardner Dozois
37 25 None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer NONFICTION Benjamin J. Robertson
38 24 Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded NONFICTION Jason Heller
39 24 Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility NONFICTION Alexis Lothian
40 22 Arthur C. Clarke NONFICTION Gary Westfahl
41 22 The Cambridge History of Science Fiction NONFICTION Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link
42 22 Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout NONFICTION Ed Leimbacher and William Stout
43 21 The Bend at the End of the Road NONFICTION Barry N. Malzberg
44 20 A Conversation Larger than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762-2017 NONFICTION Henry Wessells
45 18 How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler NONFICTION Ryan North
46 1 Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror NONFICTION W. Scott Poole
47 1 A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema NONFICTION Kendall R. Phillips
48 1 Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross NONFICTION Chip Kidd and Alex Ross and Geoff Spear
49 1 Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror NONFICTION Darryl Jones
50 1 C'était demain: anticiper la science-fiction en France et au Québec (1880-1950) NONFICTION Patrick Bergeron and Patrick Guay and Natacha Vas-Deyres
51 1 La science fait son cinéma NONFICTION Roland Lehoucq and Sébastien Steyer
52 1 Woman at the Devil's Door: The Untold True Story of the Hampstead Murderess NONFICTION Sarah Beth Hopton
53 1 Vampires, fantômes et apparitions: Nouveaux essais de pneumatologie littéraire NONFICTION Daniel Sangsue
54 1 Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture NONFICTION Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
55 1 The Science Fiction of Iain M. Banks NONFICTION Nick Hubble and Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Joseph Norman
56 1 Economic Science Fictions NONFICTION William Davies
57 1 Marvel's Black Panther: The Art of the Movie NONFICTION Eleni Roussos
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