Mythopoeic Awards

This is the list of nominees and winners as found on the homepage of the Mythopeic Awards for Fantasy. It includes both adult and children’s titles. As you know, I like my fantasy for grown-ups as well as for children and many times, I prefer the nominees to the winner.
This has become one of my favorite awards to follow because while there is always a book I loved among the nominees, there are also always books I’d never heard about. And almost all of the nominees I have read have been excellent!

2022

Adult
- Jo Walton – Or What You Will *
- Katherine Addison – The Witness for the Dead
- Ryka Aoki – Light from Uncommon Stars
- P. Djèlí Clark – A Master of Djinn
- Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
- Garth Nix – Terciel and Elinor
Children’s (tie)
- Lori M. Lee – Pahua and the Soul Stealer *
- Eden Royce – Root Magic *
- Sayantani DasGupta – The Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond trilogy
  - The Serpent’s Secret
  - Game of Stars
  - The Chaos Curse
- Regina Hansen – The Coming Storm

2021

Adult
- TJ Klune – The House in the Cerulean Sea *
- Alice Hoffman – Magic Lessons
- Jordan Ifueko – Raybearer
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic
- Garth Nix – The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Children’s
- T. Kingfisher – A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking *
- Lev Grossman – The Silver Arrow
- Kat Leyh – Snapdragon
- Tae Teller – When You Trap a Tiger
- Jenn Reese – A Game of Fox and Squirrells
- Carlos Hernandez – The Sal and Gabi Duology
  - Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
  - Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

2020

Adult
- Theodora Goss – Snow White Learns Witchcraft *
- P. Djèlí Clark – The Haunting of Tram Car 015
- Alix E. Harrow – The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- Jo Walton – Lent
- G. Willow Wilson – The Bird King
Children’s
- Yoon Ha Lee – Dragon Pearl *
- Anne Ursu – The Lost Girl
- Suzanne Nelson – A Tale Magnolius
- Hilary McKay – A Time of Green Magic
- Erin Entrada Kelly – Lalani of the Distant Sea

2019

Adult
- Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver *
- Madeline Miller – Circe
- Sarah Rees Brennan – In Other Lands
- Ruthanna Emrys – The Innsmouth Legacy
  - Litany of Earth
  - Winter Tide
  - Deep Roots
- Mishell Baker – The Arcadia Project
Children’s
- Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead – Bob *
- Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado – The Chronicles of Claudette
  - Giants Beware!
  - Dragons Beware!
  - Monsters Beware!
- Jonathan Auxier – Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
- Sarah Beth Durst – The Stone Girl’s Story
- Emily Tetri – Tiger vs. Nightmare

2018

Adult
- John Crowley – Ka: Dar Oakley in the Shadows of Ymr *
- Victor LaValle – The Changeling
- Ellen Klages – Passing Strange
- G. A. Kathryns – Snow City
- Alice Hoffman – The Rules of Magic
Children’s
- Garth Nix – Frogkisser! *
- A. F. Harrold – The Song From Somewhere Else
- Nidhi Chanani – Pashmina
- Stephanie Burgis – The Dragon With the Chocolate Heart
- Cassie Beasley – Tumble and Blue

2017

Adult
- Patricia A. McKillip – Kingfisher *
- Mary Robinette Kowal – Ghost Talkers
- Jo Walton – Necessity
- Andrea Hairston – Will Do Magic For Small Change
- Maggie Stiefvater – The Raven Cycle
Children’s
- Adam Gidwitz – The Inquisitor’s Tale *
- Bridget Hodder – The Rat Prince
- Grace Lin – When the Sea Turned to Silver
- Delia Sherman – The Evil Wizard Smallbone
- S. E. Grove – The Mapmaker’s Trilogy
  - The Class Sentence
  - The Golden Specific
  - The Crimson Skew

2016

Adult
- Naomi Novik – Uprooted *
- Holly Black – The Darkest Part of the Forest
- Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Giant
- E.K. Johnston – A Thousand Nights
- Daniel José Older – Shadowshaper
Children’s
- Ursula Vernon – Castle Hangnail *
- Cassie Beasley – Circus Mirandus
- Robert Beatty – Serafina and The Black Cloak
- Sarah Beth Durst – The Girl Who Could Not Dream
- Terry Pratchett – Tiffany Aching Series

2015

Adult
- Sarah Avery – Tales from Rugosa Coven *
- Stephanie Feldman – The Angel of Losses
- Theodora Goss – Songs for Ophelia
- Joanne M. Harris – The Gospel of Loki
- Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez – Locke & Key series
  - Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
  - Vol. 2: Head Games
  - Vol. 3: Crown of Shadow
  - Vol.4: Keys to the Kingdom
  - Vol. 5: Clockworks
  - Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega
Children’s
- Natalie Lloyd – A Snicker of Magic *
- Jonathan Auxier – The Night Gardener
- Merrie Haskell – The Castle Behind Thorns
- Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones – The Islands of Chaldea
- Robin LaFevers – His Fair Assassin series
  - Grave Mercy
  - Dark Triumph
  - Mortal Heart

2014

Adult
- Helene Wecker – The Golem and the Jinni *
- Yangsze Choo – The Ghost Bride
- Max Gladstone – Three Parts Dead
- Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Mark H. Williams – Sleepless Knights
Children’s
- Holly Black – Doll Bones *
- William Alexander – Ghoulish Song
- Robin McKinley – Shadows
- Sarah Beth Durst – Conjured
- Joseph Bruchac – Killer of Enemies

2013

Adult
- Ursula Vernon – Digger, vols. 1-6 *
- Alan Garner – The Weirdstone Trilogy
  - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  - The Moon of Gomrath
  - Boneland
- Caitlin R. Kiernan – The Drowning Girl
- R.A. MacAvoy – Death and Resurrection
- Tim Powers – Hide Me Among the Graves
Children’s
- Sarah Beth Durst – Vessel *
- Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado – Giants Beware!
- Merrie Haskell – The Princess Curse
- Christopher Healy -The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
- Sherwood Smith – The Spy Princess

2012

Adult
- Lisa Goldstein – The Uncertain Places *
- Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus
- Richard Parks – The Heavenly Fox
- Catherynne M. Valente – Deathless
- Jo Walton – Among Others
Children’s
- Delia Sherman – The Freedom Maze *
- Lisa Mantchev – Théâtre Illuminata series
  1. Eyes Like Stars
  2. Perchance to Dream
  3. So Silver Bright
- Tamora Pierce – Beka Cooper series
  1. Terrier
  2. Bloodhound
  3. Mastiff
- Maggie Stiefvater – The Scorpio Races
- Catherynne M. Valente – The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

2011

Adult
- Karen Lord – Redemption in Indigo *
- Guy Gavriel Kay – Under Heaven
- Patricia A. McKillip – The Bards of Bone Plain
- Devon Monk – A Cup of Normal
- Sharon Shinn – Troubled Waters
Children’s
- Megan Whalen Turner – The Queen’s Thief series *
  1. The Thief
  2. The Queen of Attolia
  3. The King of Attolia
  4. A Conspiracy of Kings
- Catherine Fisher – Incarceron and Sapphique
- Terry Pratchett – I Shall Wear Midnight
- Polly Shulman – The Grimm Legacy
- Heather Tomlinson – Toads and Diamonds

2010

Adult
- Jo Walton – Lifelode *
- Barbara Campbell – Trickster’s Game trilogy
  1. Heartwood
  2. Bloodstone
  3. Foxfire
- Greer Gilman – Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales
- Robert Holdstock – Avilion
- Catherynne M. Valente – Palimpsest
Children’s
- Grace Lin – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon *
- Kage Baker – The Hotel Under the Sand
- Shannon Hale – Books of Bayern
  1. The Goose Girl
  2. Enna Burning
  3. River Secrets
  4. Forest Born
- Malinda Lo – Ash
- Lisa Mantchev – Eyes Like Stars

2009

Adult
- Carol Berg – Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone *
- Daryl Gregory – Pandemonium
- Ursula K. Le Guin – Lavinia
- Patricia A. McKillip – The Bell at Sealey Head
- Gene Wolfe – An Evil Guest
Children’s
- Kristin Cashore – Graceling *
- Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
- Diana Wynne Jones – House of Many Ways
- Ingrid Law – Savvy
- Terry Pratchett – Nation

2008

Adult
- Catherynne M. Valente – The Orphan’s Tales *
  - In the Night Garden
  - In the Cities of Coin and Spice
- Theodora Goss – In the Forest of Forgetting
- Nalo Hopkinson – The New Moon’s Arms
- Guy Gavriel Kay – Ysabel
- John C. Wright – Chronicles of Chaos
  - Orphans of Chaos
  - Fugitives of Chaos
  - Titans of Chaos
Children’s
- J.K. Rowling – The Harry Potter series *
  - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Holly Black – Moder Faerie Tale series
  - Tithe
  - Valiant
  - Ironside
- Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant
- Nancy Springer – Dussie
- Kate Thompson – The New Policeman

2007

Adult
- Patricia A. McKillip – Solstice Wood *
- Peter S. Beagle – The Line Between
- Susanna Clarke – The Ladies of Grace Adieu
- Keith Donohue – The Stolen Child
- Susan Palwick – The Necessary Beggar
- Tim Powers – Three Days to Never
Children’s
- Catherine Fisher – Corbenic *
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman – Spirits That Walk in Shadow
- Diana Wynne Jones – The Pinhoe Egg
- Martine Leavitt – Keturah and Lord Death
- Terry Pratchett – Wintersmith

2006

Adult
- Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys *
- Margaret Atwood – The Penelopiad
- Lois McMaster Bujold – The Hallowed Hunt
- Tanith Lee – Metallic Love
- Tim Pratt – The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
Children’s
- Jonathan Stroud – The Bartimaeus Trilogy *
  1. The Amulet of Samarkand
  2. The Golem’s Eye
  3. Ptolemy’s Gate
- Holly Black – Valiant
- Diane Duane – Wizards at War
- Clare B. Dunkle – By These Ten Bones

2005

Adult
- Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell *
- Kage Baker – The Anvil of the World
- Elizabeth Hand – Mortal Love
- Patricia A. McKillip – Alphabet of Thorns
- Gene Wolfe – The Wizard Knight
  - The Knight
  - The Wizard
Children’s
- Terry Pratchett – A Hat Full of Sky *
- Kevin Crossley-Holland – Arthur Trilogy
  - The Seeing Stone
  - At the Crossing Places
  - King of the Middle March
- Nancy Farmer – Sea of Trolls
- Monica Furlong – The Doran Trilogy
  - Wise Child
  - Juniper
  - Colman
- Garth Nix – The Abhorsen Trilogy
  - Sabriel
  - Lirael
  - Abhorsen

2004

Adult
- Robin McKinley – Sunshine *
- Lois McMaster Bujold – Paladin of Souls
- Kij Johnson – Fudoki
- Ursula K. Le Guin – Changing Planes
- Patricia A. McKillip – In the Forests of Serre
Children’s
- Clare B. Dunkle – The Hollow Kingdom *
- Kate DiCamillo – The Tale of Despereaux
- Cornelia Funke – Inkheart
- Shannon Hale – The Goose Girl
- Terry Pratchett – The Wee Free Men

2003

Adult
- Patricia A. McKillip – Ombria in Shadow *
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman – A Fistful of Sky
- Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman – The Fall of the Kings
Children’s
- Michael Chabon – Summerland *
- Holly Black – Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
- Nancy Farmer – House of the Scorpion
- Neil Gaiman – Coraline
- Vivian Vande Velde – Heir Apparent

2002

Adult
- Lois McMaster Bujold – The Curse of Chalion *
- Neil Gaiman – American Gods
- Sarah A. Hoyt – Ill Met by Moonlight
- Ursula K. Le Guin – The Other Wind
- Tim Powers – Declare
Children’s
- Peter Dickinson – The Ropemaker *
- Diane Duane – The Wizard’s Dilemma
- Eva Ibbotson – Island of the Aunts
- Gail Carson Levine – The Two Princesses of Bamarre

2001

Adult
- Midori Snyder – The Innamorati *
- Win Blevins – ravenShadow
- Charles de Lint – Forests of the Heart
- Guy Gavriel Kay – The Sarantine Mosaic
  - Sailing to Sarantium
  - Lord of Emperors
Children’s
- Dia Calhoun – Aria of the Sea *
- Rita Murphy – Night Flying
- Donna Jo Napoli – Beast
- Laurel Winter – Growing Wings
- Jane Yolen – Boots and the Seven Leaguers

2000

Adult
- Peter S. Beagle – Tamsin *
- A.S. Byatt – Elementals
- Lisa Goldstein – Dark Cities Underground
- Peg Kerr – The Wild Swans
- Yves Meynard – The Book of Knights
Children’s
- Franny Billingsley – The Folk Keeper *
- David Almond – Skellig
- Tamora Pierce – The Circle of Magic series
- J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Cynthia Voigt – Kingdom series

1999

Adult
- Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess – Stardust *
- Charles de Lint – Someplace to be Flying
- R. E. Klein – The History of our World Beyond the Wave
- Patricia A. McKillip – Song for the Basilisk
- James Stoddard – The High House
Children’s
- Diane Wynne Jones – Dark Lord of Derkholm *
- Kara Dalkey – Heavenward Path
- Gail Carson Levine – Ella Enchanted
- Gerald Morris – The Squire’s Tale
- J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

1998

Adult
- A. S. Byatt – The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye *
- Peter S. Beagle – Giant Bones
- Charles de Lint – Trader
- Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
- Patrick O’Leary – The Gift
Children’s
- Jane Yolen – Young Merlin Trilogy *
  - Passager
  - Hobby
  - Merlin
- Susan Cooper – The Boggart and the Monster
- Dahlov Ipcar – A Dark Horn Blowing
- Robin McKinley – Rose Daughter

1997

(Adult and Children’s Awards combined)

Terri Windling – The Wood Wife *
John Barnes – One for the Morning Glory
Patricia A. McKillip – Winter Rose
Nancy Springer – Fair Peril
Gene Wolfe – The Book of the Long Sun

1996

Adult
- Elizabeth Hand – Waking the Moon *
- Michael Bishop – Brittle Innings
- James P. Blaylock – All the Bells on Earth
- Patricia A. McKillip – The Book of Atrix Wolfe
- Kenneth Morris – The Dragon Path
Children’s
- Diana Wynne Jones – The Crown of Dalemark *
- Susan Cooper – The Boggart
- Luli Gray – Falcon’s Egg
- Sherwood Smith – Wren’s War
- Sylvia Waugh – The Mennyms

1995

Adult
- Patricia A. McKillip – Something Rich and Strange *
- Pamela Dean – The Dubious Hills
- Robert Holdstock – The Hollowing
- Rachel Pollack – Temporary Agency
Children’s
- Patrice Kindl – Owl in Love *
- Emma Bull – The Princess and the Lord of Night
- Peni R. Griffin – Switching Well
- Robin McKinley – A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
- Jane Yolen – Good Griselle

1994

Adult
- Delia Sherman – The Porcelain Dove *
- Peter S. Beagle – The Innkeeper’s Song
- Patricia A. McKillip – The Cygnet and the Firebird
- Robin McKinley – Deerskin
Children’s
- Suzy McKee Charnas – The Kingdom of Kevin Malone *
- Lynne Reid Banks – The Mystery of the Cupboard
- Lois Lowry – The Giver
- Will Shetterly – Nevernever
- Patricia C. Wrede – Calling on Dragons

1993

Adult
- Jane Yolen – Briar Rose *
- James P. Blaylock – The Paper Grail
- Tim Powers – Last Call
- Susan Shwartz – The Grail of Hearts
- Connie Willis – Doomsday Book
Children’s
- Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald – Knight’s Wyrd *
- T.A. Barron – The Ancient One
- Toad Bruce Coville – Jennifer Murdley’s
- Peni R. Griffin – Hobkin
- Ursula K. Le Guin – Fish Soup

1992

Adult
- Eleanor Arnason – A Woman of the Iron People *
- Pamela Dean – Tam Lin
- Greer Gilman – Moonwise
- Patricia A. McKillip – The Sorceress and the Cygnet
- Sheri S. Tepper – Beauty
Children’s
- Salman Rushdie – Haroun and the Sea of Stories *
- Bruce Coville – Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
- Diana Wynne Jones – Castle in the Air
- Will Shetterly – Elsewhere
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder – Song of the Gargoyle

1991

Ellen Kushner – Thomas the Rhymer *
Guy Gavriel Kay – Tigana
Ursula K. Le Guin – Tehanu
James Morrow – Only Begotten Daughter
Jane Yolen – The Books of Great Alta

1990

Tim Powers – The Stress of Her Regard *
Orson Scott Card – Prentice Alvin
Patricia A. McKillip – The Changeling Sea
Pat Murphy – The City, Not Long After
Matt Ruff – Fool on the Hill

1989

Michael Bishop – Unicorn Mountain *
James P. Blaylock – The Last Coin
Orson Scott Card – Red Prophet
Kara Dalkey – The Nightingale
Diana L. Paxson – The White Raven
Michaela Roessner – Walkabout Woman

1988

Orson Scott Card – Seventh Son *
Emma Bull – War for the Oaks
Pat Murphy – The Falling Woman
Connie Willis – Lincoln’s Dreams

1987

Peter S. Beagle – The Folk of the Air *
Guy Gavriel Kay – The Fionavar Tapestry
- The Summer Tree
- The Wandering Fire
- The Darkest Road
Tanith Lee – Tales from the Flat Earth
Jane Yolen – Merlin’s Booke

1986

Barry Hughart – Bridge of Birds *
Barbara Hambly – Dragonsbane
P. C. Hodgell – Dark of the Moon
Diana Wynne Jones – Fire and Hemlock
Ursula K. Le Guin – Always Coming Home
Manuel Mujica Lainez – The Wandering Unicorn

1985

Jane Yolen – Cards of Grief *
Charles de Lint – Moonheart
R.A. McAvoy – The Damiano Trilogy
Robin McKinley – The Hero and the Crown
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Book of Lost Tales

1984

Joy Chant – When Voiha Wakes *
- other nominees not available

1983

Carol Kendall – The Firelings *
Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon
Stephen R. Donaldson – The One Tree
David Eddings – Queen of Sorcery
P.C. Hodgell – God Stalk
Robin McKinley – The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley – The Door in the Hedge
Diana L. Paxson – Lady of Light
Meredith Ann Pierce – The Darkangel

1982

John Crowley – Little, Big *
Tanith Lee – Delusion’s Master
Elizabeth A. Lynn – The Woman Who Loved the Moon
Julian May – The Many-Colored Land
Nancy Springer – The Sable Moon
Gene Wolfe – Claw of the Conciliator

1981

J.R.R. Tolkien – Unfinished Tales *
Joy Chant – The Grey Mane of Morning
Stephen R. Donaldson – The Wounded Land
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Beginning Place
Morgan Llywelyn – Lion of Ireland

1975

Poul Anderson – A Midsummer Tempest *
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Patricia A. McKillip – The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
H. Warner Munn – Merlin’s Ring
Thomas Burnett Swann – How Are the Mighty Fallen
Evangeline Walton – Prince of Annwn

1974

Mary Stewart – The Hollow Hills *
Poul Anderson – Hrolf Kraki’s Saga
Susan Cooper – The Dark Is Rising
Sanders Anne Laubenthal – Excalibur
Katherine Kurtz – High Deryni

1973

Evangeline Walton – The Song of Rhiannon *
Poul Anderson – Dancer from Atlantis
Katherine Kurtz – Deryni Checkmate
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Farthest Shore
Thomas Burnett Swann – Green Phoenix
Roger Zelazny – The Guns of Avalon

1972

Joy Chant – Red Moon and Black Mountain *
John Gardner – Grendel
Isidore Haiblum – The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Tombs of Atuan
Michael Moorcock – The Corum Trilogy
Joan North – The Light Maze
Thomas Burnett Swann – The Forest of Forever
Evangeline Walton – The Children of Llyr

1971

Mary Stewart – The Crystal Cave *
Lloyd Alexander – The Marvellous Misadventures of Sebastian
Katherine Kurtz – Deryni Rising
Roger Zelazny – Nine Princes in Amber