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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2019

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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
1 207 The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games NONFICTION Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
2 143 The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein NONFICTION Farah Mendlesohn
3 101 Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction NONFICTION Melanie R. Anderson and
Lisa Kröger?Lisa Kroger
Lisa Kroeger
4 91 Joanna Russ NONFICTION Gwyneth Jones
5 70 The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy NONFICTION Charul Palmer-Patel
6 65 The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick NONFICTION Mallory O'Meara
7 59 H G Wells: A Literary Life NONFICTION Adam Roberts
8 58 Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century NONFICTION Maria Sachiko Cecire
9 50 Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture NONFICTION Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
10 50 Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien NONFICTION Anna Vaninskaya
11 50 Tolkien's Lost Chaucer NONFICTION John M. Bowers
12 50 Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION Katherine Chu and John Fleskes
13 35 Niegeschichte: Science Fiction als Kunst- und Denkmaschine NONFICTION Dietmar Dath
14 35 Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings on Terror NONFICTION Stephen Volk
15 35 Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality (Horror Studies) NONFICTION Eleanor Beal and Jonathan Greenaway
16 35 Sub-Creating Arda: World-building in J. R. R. Tolkien's Work, Its Precursors and Its Legacies NONFICTION Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger
17 35 Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction NONFICTION Glyn Morgan and Charul Palmer-Patel
18 35 Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist NONFICTION Oronzo Cilli
19 35 Station Metropolis direction Coruscant NONFICTION Alain Musset
20 35 George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form NONFICTION Joseph Rex Young
21 35 About Writing NONFICTION Gareth L. Powell
22 35 Shapeshifters: A History NONFICTION John B. Kachuba
23 29 Middle-Earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend NONFICTION Donato Giancola
24 29 Becoming Superman NONFICTION J. Michael Straczynski
25 29 Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy NONFICTION Desirina Boskovich
26 28 The Illustrated World of Tolkien NONFICTION David Day
27 28 Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected NONFICTION Nnedi Okorafor
28 27 Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller NONFICTION Ed Emshwiller and Jesse Pires
29 27 Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century NONFICTION Sarah Cole
30 26 Kim Stanley Robinson NONFICTION Robert Markley
31 26 Reading Backwards NONFICTION John Crowley
32 25 Ambedo NONFICTION Tran Nguyen
33 24 Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures NONFICTION Mark A. Nelson
34 24 The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction NONFICTION Damien Broderick
35 21 Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays NONFICTION Peter Watts
36 21 Roy G. Krenkel: Father of Heroic Fantasy: A Centennial Celebration NONFICTION AndrewSteven Damsits and Barry Klugerman
37 20 The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s NONFICTION Gary Westfahl
38 19 Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters NONFICTION Amy Binns
39 19 Art of Gary Gianni for George R. R. Martin's Seven Kingdoms NONFICTION Gary Gianni
40 18 Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution, Volume 1 NONFICTION Sal Abbinanti and Chul R. Kim and Bill Sienkiewicz
41 18 Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters NONFICTION Samuel R. Delany
42 17 Invented People NONFICTION Rick Berry
43 1 Fabulous Monsters NONFICTION Alberto Manguel
44 1 Science-fiction, prothèses et cyborgs NONFICTION Jérôme Goffette
45 1 Tolkien et les sciences NONFICTION Roland Lehoucq and Loic Mangin and
J. Sébastien Steyer?J. Sebastien Steyer
46 1 L'étoffe dont sont tissés les vents: Une analyse de "La horde du contrevent" d'Alain Damasio NONFICTION
Antoine St. Épondyle?Antoine St. Epondyle
47 1 Anatomie comparée des espèces imaginaires de Chewbacca à Totoro NONFICTION
J. Sébastien Steyer?J. Sebastien Steyer
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