Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2021

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
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	164	Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985	NONFICTION	Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
2	85	Never Say You Can't Survive	NONFICTION	Charlie Jane Anders
3	85	Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction	NONFICTION	F. T. Barbini
4	85	Writers Workshop of Horror 2	NONFICTION	Michael Knost
5	64	Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color	NONFICTION	Joy Sanchez-Taylor
6	59	After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin	NONFICTION	Thomas Connolly
7	57	The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture	NONFICTION	Mark Bould
8	53	The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination	NONFICTION	Philip Ball
9	50	The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess' Stardust	NONFICTION	Charles Vess
10	50	Writing the Uncanny: Essays on Crafting Strange Fiction	NONFICTION	Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
11	36	Roger Zelazny	NONFICTION	F. Brett Cox
12	35	Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters	NONFICTION	Kevin Wetmore
13	35	Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism	NONFICTION	Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
14	35	Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present	NONFICTION	Hadas Elber-Aviram
15	35	Соблазны «Туманности Андромеды»: Лейтмотивы коммунистической утопии от Томаса Мора до Ефремова и Стругацких?Soblazny "Tumanosti Andromedy": Leytmotivy kommunisticheskoy utopii ot Tomasa Mora do Efremova i Strugatskihk	NONFICTION	К. Г. Фрумкин?K. G. Frumkin
16	35	Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema	NONFICTION	Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
17	35	9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels	NONFICTION	Danel Olson
18	35	The Conjuring	NONFICTION	Kevin Wetmore
19	35	Shirley Jackson: A Companion	NONFICTION	Kristopher Woofter
20	35	Le livre des préfaces	NONFICTION	Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein
21	35	Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades	NONFICTION	Anna McFarlane
22	35	The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic	NONFICTION	Clive Bloom
23	35	Apparitions: Les archives de la France hantée	NONFICTION	Philippe Baudouin
24	35	Les pouvoirs de l'enchantement	NONFICTION	Anne Besson
25	35	Apocalypse show, quand l'Amérique s'effondre	NONFICTION	Anne-Lise Melquiond
26	35	James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste	NONFICTION	Thierry Paquot
27	35	Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence	NONFICTION	Paul S. Fiddes
28	35	A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas	NONFICTION	Peter Grybauskas
29	35	Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages	NONFICTION	Holly Ordway
30	35	The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend	NONFICTION	Daniel Ogden
31	30	Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age	NONFICTION	Valerie Estelle Frankel
32	28	Gothic: An Illustrated History	NONFICTION	Roger Luckhurst
33	28	The Complete Debarkle: 1880 to 2020	NONFICTION	Camestros Felapton
34	27	Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw	NONFICTION	Hua Li
35	27	True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee	NONFICTION	Abraham Riesman
36	26	The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World	NONFICTION	Claire Tomalin
37	24	Monstrous Mythologies	NONFICTION	Michael Bukowski
38	23	You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice	NONFICTION	Angela Slatter
39	22	Forgotten Gods: The Art of Yoann Lossel	NONFICTION	Yoann Lossel
40	21	Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living as a Writer	NONFICTION	M. Huw Evans and Tod McCoy
41	21	Kay Nielsen: An Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection	NONFICTION	Meghan Melvin and Kay Nielsen
42	20	"More About Writing" and Other Essays	NONFICTION	Samuel R. Delany
43	19	All of the Marvels	NONFICTION	Douglas Wolk
44	19	John Howe's Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy	NONFICTION	John Howe
45	18	Infected by Art: Volume 9	NONFICTION	Bill Cox and Jon Schindehette and Todd Spoor
46	17	Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings	NONFICTION	Joe Sanders
47	1	The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe	NONFICTION	Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
48	1	Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium	NONFICTION	Rachel Cordasco
49	1	L'épopée littéraire des frères Boex: Bibliographie de J.-H. Rosny aîné et J.-H. Rosny jeune	NONFICTION	Fabrice Mundzik
50	1	Ursula K. Le Guin: De l'autre côté des mots	NONFICTION	David Meulemans
51	1	L'altération des mondes: Version de Philip K. Dick	NONFICTION	David Lapoujade
52	1	Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 2	NONFICTION	Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
53	1	Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 1	NONFICTION	Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese

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