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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

The Mythopoeic Society

An annual award presented by the Mythopoeic Society to the fantasy novel for adults published the previous year that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and their circle), honoring imaginative fiction rooted in myth, legend, and fairy tale.

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2026

  1. Audition for the Fox

    Martin Cahill

    Shortlisted
  2. Snake-Eater

    T. Kingfisher

    Shortlisted
  3. The Bright Sword

    Lev Grossman

    Shortlisted
  4. The Charlatan Duology

    Holly Black

    Shortlisted
  5. The Incandescent

    Emily Tesh

    Shortlisted
  6. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

    Katherine Arden

    Shortlisted
  7. The West Passage

    Jared Pechaček

    Shortlisted
  8. Water Moon

    Samantha Sotto Yambao

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. The Melancholy of Untold History

    Minsoo Kang

    Won
  2. The City in Glass

    Nghi Vo

    Shortlisted
  3. The Fox Wife

    Yangsze Choo

    Shortlisted
  4. The Society of Guenevere

    Deborah K. Vleck

    Shortlisted
  5. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

    Katherine Arden

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe

    Emma Törzs

    Won
  2. A Market of Dreams and Destiny

    Trip Galey

    Shortlisted

  3. Adam Binder series

    David R. Slayton

    Shortlisted
  4. Bookshops & Bonedust

    Travis Baldree

    Shortlisted
  5. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

    Heather Fawcett

    Shortlisted
  6. Monk & Robot series

    Becky Chambers

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. When the Angels Left the Old Country

    Sacha Lamb

    Won
  2. The Ballad of Perilous Graves

    Alex Jennings

    Shortlisted
  3. The Cartographers

    Peng Shepherd

    Shortlisted
  4. Thistlefoot

    GennaRose Nethercott

    Shortlisted
  5. When Women Were Dragons

    Kelly Barnhill

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. Or What You Will

    Jo Walton

    Won
  2. A Master of Djinn

    P. Djèlí Clark

    Shortlisted
  3. Light from Uncommon Stars

    Ryka Aoki

    Shortlisted
  4. Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

    Shortlisted
  5. Terciel and Elinor

    Garth Nix

    Shortlisted
  6. The Witness for the Dead

    Katherine Addison

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. The House in the Cerulean Sea

    TJ Klune

    Won
  2. Magic Lessons

    Alice Hoffman

    Shortlisted
  3. Mexican Gothic

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    Shortlisted
  4. Raybearer

    Jordan Ifueko

    Shortlisted
  5. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

    Garth Nix

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. Snow White Learns Witchcraft

    Theodora Goss

    Won
  2. Lent

    Jo Walton

    Shortlisted
  3. The Bird King

    G. Willow Wilson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Haunting of Tram Car 015

    P. Djèlí Clark

    Shortlisted
  5. The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Alix E. Harrow

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. Spinning Silver

    Naomi Novik

    Won
  2. Borderline; Phantom Pains; Impostor Syndrome

    Mishell Baker

    Shortlisted
  3. Circe

    Madeline Miller

    Shortlisted
  4. In Other Lands

    Sarah Rees Brennan

    Shortlisted

  5. The Litany of Earth; Winter Tide; Deep Roots

    Ruthanna Emrys

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

    John Crowley

    Won
  2. Passing Strange

    Ellen Klages

    Shortlisted
  3. Snow City

    G. A. Kathryns

    Shortlisted
  4. The Changeling

    Victor LaValle

    Shortlisted
  5. The Rules of Magic

    Alice Hoffman

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. Kingfisher

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Won
  2. Ghost Talkers

    Mary Robinette Kowal

    Shortlisted
  3. The Raven Cycle

    Maggie Stiefvater

    Shortlisted
  4. Thessaly trilogy

    Jo Walton

    Shortlisted
  5. Will Do Magic For Small Change

    Andrea Hairston

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Uprooted

    Naomi Novik

    Won
  2. A Thousand Nights

    E. K. Johnston

    Shortlisted
  3. Shadowshaper

    Daniel José Older

    Shortlisted
  4. The Buried Giant

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Shortlisted
  5. The Darkest Part of the Forest

    Holly Black

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. Tales from Rugosa Coven

    Sarah Avery

    Won
  2. Locke & Key

    Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

    Shortlisted
  3. Songs for Ophelia

    Theodora Goss

    Shortlisted
  4. The Angel of Losses

    Stephanie Feldman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Gospel of Loki

    Joanne M. Harris

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Won
  2. Sleepless Knights

    Mark H. Williams

    Shortlisted
  3. The Ghost Bride

    Yangsze Choo

    Shortlisted
  4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

    Neil Gaiman

    Shortlisted
  5. Three Parts Dead

    Max Gladstone

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. Digger

    Ursula Vernon

    Won
  2. Death and Resurrection

    R. A. MacAvoy

    Shortlisted
  3. Hide Me Among the Graves

    Tim Powers

    Shortlisted
  4. The Drowning Girl

    Caitlin R. Kiernan

    Shortlisted
  5. Weirdstone trilogy

    Alan Garner

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. The Uncertain Places

    Lisa Goldstein

    Won
  2. Among Others

    Jo Walton

    Shortlisted
  3. Deathless

    Catherynne M. Valente

    Shortlisted
  4. The Heavenly Fox

    Richard Parks

    Shortlisted
  5. The Night Circus

    Erin Morgenstern

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. Redemption in Indigo

    Karen Lord

    Won
  2. A Cup of Normal

    Devon Monk

    Shortlisted
  3. The Bards of Bone Plain

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted
  4. Troubled Waters

    Sharon Shinn

    Shortlisted
  5. Under Heaven

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. Lifelode

    Jo Walton

    Won
  2. Avilion

    Robert Holdstock

    Shortlisted
  3. Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales

    Greer Gilman

    Shortlisted
  4. Palimpsest

    Catherynne M. Valente

    Shortlisted
  5. Trickster's Game trilogy

    Barbara Campbell

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone

    Carol Berg

    Won
  2. An Evil Guest

    Gene Wolfe

    Shortlisted
  3. Lavinia

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted
  4. Pandemonium

    Daryl Gregory

    Shortlisted
  5. The Bell at Sealey Head

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. The Orphan's Tales

    Catherynne M. Valente

    Won
  2. Chronicles of Chaos

    John C. Wright

    Shortlisted
  3. In the Forest of Forgetting

    Theodora Goss

    Shortlisted
  4. The New Moon's Arms

    Nalo Hopkinson

    Shortlisted
  5. Ysabel

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Solstice Wood

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Won
  2. The Ladies of Grace Adieu

    Susanna Clarke

    Shortlisted
  3. The Line Between

    Peter S. Beagle

    Shortlisted
  4. The Necessary Beggar

    Susan Palwick

    Shortlisted
  5. The Stolen Child

    Keith Donohue

    Shortlisted
  6. Three Days to Never

    Tim Powers

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. Anansi Boys

    Neil Gaiman

    Won
  2. Metallic Love

    Tanith Lee

    Shortlisted
  3. The Hallowed Hunt

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Shortlisted
  4. The Penelopiad

    Margaret Atwood

    Shortlisted
  5. The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl

    Tim Pratt

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Susanna Clarke

    Won
  2. Alphabet of Thorn

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted
  3. Mortal Love

    Elizabeth Hand

    Shortlisted
  4. The Anvil of the World

    Kage Baker

    Shortlisted
  5. The Wizard Knight

    Gene Wolfe

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. Sunshine

    Robin McKinley

    Won
  2. Changing Planes

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted
  3. Fudoki

    Kij Johnson

    Shortlisted
  4. In the Forests of Serre

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted
  5. Paladin of Souls

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. Ombria in Shadow

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Won
  2. A Fistful of Sky

    Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    Shortlisted
  3. The Fall of the Kings

    Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. The Curse of Chalion

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Won
  2. American Gods

    Neil Gaiman

    Shortlisted
  3. Declare

    Tim Powers

    Shortlisted
  4. Ill Met by Moonlight

    Sarah A. Hoyt

    Shortlisted
  5. The Other Wind

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. The Innamorati

    Midori Snyder

    Won
  2. Forests of the Heart

    Charles de Lint

    Shortlisted
  3. RavenShadow

    Win Blevins

    Shortlisted
  4. The Sarantine Mosaic

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. Tamsin

    Peter S. Beagle

    Won
  2. Dark Cities Underground

    Lisa Goldstein

    Shortlisted
  3. Elementals

    A. S. Byatt

    Shortlisted
  4. The Book of Knights

    Yves Meynard

    Shortlisted
  5. The Wild Swans

    Peg Kerr

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. Stardust

    Neil Gaiman

    Won
  2. Someplace to be Flying

    Charles de Lint

    Shortlisted
  3. Song for the Basilisk

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted
  4. The High House

    James Stoddard

    Shortlisted

  5. The History of our World Beyond the Wave

    R. E. Klein

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

    A. S. Byatt

    Won
  2. Giant Bones

    Peter S. Beagle

    Shortlisted
  3. Neverwhere

    Neil Gaiman

    Shortlisted
  4. The Gift

    Patrick O'Leary

    Shortlisted
  5. Trader

    Charles de Lint

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. The Wood Wife

    Terri Windling

    Won
  2. Fair Peril

    Nancy Springer

    Shortlisted
  3. One for the Morning Glory

    John Barnes

    Shortlisted
  4. The Book of the Long Sun

    Gene Wolfe

    Shortlisted
  5. Winter Rose

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Waking the Moon

    Elizabeth Hand

    Won
  2. All the Bells on Earth

    James P. Blaylock

    Shortlisted
  3. Brittle Innings

    Michael Bishop

    Shortlisted
  4. The Book of Atrix Wolfe

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted
  5. The Dragon Path

    Kenneth Morris

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. Something Rich and Strange

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Won
  2. Temporary Agency

    Rachel Pollack

    Shortlisted
  3. The Dubious Hills

    Pamela Dean

    Shortlisted
  4. The Hollowing

    Robert Holdstock

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. The Porcelain Dove

    Delia Sherman

    Won
  2. Deerskin

    Robin McKinley

    Shortlisted
  3. The Cygnet and the Firebird

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted
  4. The Innkeeper's Song

    Peter S. Beagle

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. Briar Rose

    Jane Yolen

    Won
  2. Doomsday Book

    Connie Willis

    Shortlisted
  3. Last Call

    Tim Powers

    Shortlisted
  4. The Grail of Hearts

    Susan Shwartz

    Shortlisted
  5. The Paper Grail

    James P. Blaylock

    Shortlisted

1992

  1. A Woman of the Iron People

    Eleanor Arnason

    Won
  2. Beauty

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Shortlisted
  3. Moonwise

    Greer Ilene Gilman

    Shortlisted
  4. Tam Lin

    Pamela Dean

    Shortlisted
  5. The Sorceress and the Cygnet

    Patricia A. McKillip

    Shortlisted