Announcements: Finalists (May 28, 2024) | Winners (August 4, 2024) | Acceptance Remarks (August 5, 2024)

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All Book Award Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Tor, 2023)
• Becky Chambers, Monk & Robot series (Tordotcom, 2021-2022)
• Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Del Rey, 2023)
• Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny (Titan, 2023)
• David R. Slayton, Adam Binder trilogy (Blackstone Publishing, 2020-2022)
• Emma Törzs, Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe (William Morrow, 2023)

Young Adult Literature

• Frances Hardinge, Unraveller (Amulet Books, 2023)
• Kiyash Monsef, Once There Was ((?Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023)
• L.C. Rosen, Lion’s Legacy (Union Square & Co., 2023)
• Tyler Tork, The Goodnight Agency (MadCat/Roan & Wetherford, 2023)
• Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea (HarperTeen, 2023)

Children’s Literature

• Ethan M. Aldridge, Deephaven (Quill Tree Books, 2023)
• Alechia Dow, Just a Pinch of Magic (Feiwel & Friends, 2023)
• K. O’Neill, Moth Keeper (Random House Graphic, 2023)
• Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, The Lost Library (Feiwel & Friends, 2023)
• Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf (First Second, 2023)
• Patricia C. Wrede, The Dark Lord’s Daughter (Random House, 2023)
• Brian Young, Water Monster duology (Heartdrum 2021-2023)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Nick Groom, Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today (Pegasus Books, 2023)
• Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas (Kent State University Press, 2021)
• Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
• José María Miranda Boto, Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works (Walking Tree, 2022)
• Krishnan Venkatesh, Frodo’s Wound: Why The Lord of the Rings is a Great Book (Mercer University Press, 2021)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Jes Battis, Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)
• Hadas Elber-Aviram, Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
• Matthew Oliver, Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy (McFarland, 2022)
• Paul R. Rovang, The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology (Lexington Books, 2023)
• Matthew Sangster, An Introduction to Fantasy (Cambridge University Press, 2023)