The Award Tally

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.

2026

Audition for the Fox
Martin Cahill
Shortlisted
Snake-Eater
T. Kingfisher
Shortlisted
The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman
Shortlisted
The Charlatan Duology
Holly Black
Shortlisted
The Incandescent
Emily Tesh
Shortlisted
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Katherine Arden
Shortlisted
The West Passage
Jared Pechaček
Shortlisted
Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao
Shortlisted

2025

The Melancholy of Untold History
Minsoo Kang
Won
The City in Glass
Nghi Vo
Shortlisted
The Fox Wife
Yangsze Choo
Shortlisted
The Society of Guenevere
Deborah K. Vleck
Shortlisted
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Katherine Arden
Shortlisted

2024

Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe
Emma Törzs
Won
A Market of Dreams and Destiny
Trip Galey
Shortlisted
Adam Binder series
David R. Slayton
Shortlisted
Bookshops & Bonedust
Travis Baldree
Shortlisted
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett
Shortlisted
Monk & Robot series
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted

2023

When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sacha Lamb
Won
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Alex Jennings
Shortlisted
The Cartographers
Peng Shepherd
Shortlisted
Thistlefoot
GennaRose Nethercott
Shortlisted
When Women Were Dragons
Kelly Barnhill
Shortlisted

2022

Or What You Will
Jo Walton
Won
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
Shortlisted
Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Shortlisted
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Shortlisted
Terciel and Elinor
Garth Nix
Shortlisted
The Witness for the Dead
Katherine Addison
Shortlisted

2021

The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
Won
Magic Lessons
Alice Hoffman
Shortlisted
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shortlisted
Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko
Shortlisted
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Garth Nix
Shortlisted

2020

Snow White Learns Witchcraft
Theodora Goss
Won
Lent
Jo Walton
Shortlisted
The Bird King
G. Willow Wilson
Shortlisted
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
P. Djèlí Clark
Shortlisted
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
Shortlisted

2019

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
Won
Borderline; Phantom Pains; Impostor Syndrome
Mishell Baker
Shortlisted
Circe
Madeline Miller
Shortlisted
In Other Lands
Sarah Rees Brennan
Shortlisted
The Litany of Earth; Winter Tide; Deep Roots
Ruthanna Emrys
Shortlisted

2018

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
John Crowley
Won
Passing Strange
Ellen Klages
Shortlisted
Snow City
G. A. Kathryns
Shortlisted
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
Shortlisted
The Rules of Magic
Alice Hoffman
Shortlisted

2017

Kingfisher
Patricia A. McKillip
Won
Ghost Talkers
Mary Robinette Kowal
Shortlisted
The Raven Cycle
Maggie Stiefvater
Shortlisted
Thessaly trilogy
Jo Walton
Shortlisted
Will Do Magic For Small Change
Andrea Hairston
Shortlisted

2016

Uprooted
Naomi Novik
Won
A Thousand Nights
E. K. Johnston
Shortlisted
Shadowshaper
Daniel José Older
Shortlisted
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shortlisted
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Holly Black
Shortlisted

2015

Tales from Rugosa Coven
Sarah Avery
Won
Locke & Key
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Shortlisted
Songs for Ophelia
Theodora Goss
Shortlisted
The Angel of Losses
Stephanie Feldman
Shortlisted
The Gospel of Loki
Joanne M. Harris
Shortlisted

2014

The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Won
Sleepless Knights
Mark H. Williams
Shortlisted
The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo
Shortlisted
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Shortlisted
Three Parts Dead
Max Gladstone
Shortlisted

2013

Digger
Ursula Vernon
Won
Death and Resurrection
R. A. MacAvoy
Shortlisted
Hide Me Among the Graves
Tim Powers
Shortlisted
The Drowning Girl
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Shortlisted
Weirdstone trilogy
Alan Garner
Shortlisted

2012

The Uncertain Places
Lisa Goldstein
Won
Among Others
Jo Walton
Shortlisted
Deathless
Catherynne M. Valente
Shortlisted
The Heavenly Fox
Richard Parks
Shortlisted
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Shortlisted

2011

Redemption in Indigo
Karen Lord
Won
A Cup of Normal
Devon Monk
Shortlisted
The Bards of Bone Plain
Patricia A. McKillip
Shortlisted
Troubled Waters
Sharon Shinn
Shortlisted
Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay
Shortlisted

2010

Lifelode
Jo Walton
Won
Avilion
Robert Holdstock
Shortlisted
Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
Greer Gilman
Shortlisted
Palimpsest
Catherynne M. Valente
Shortlisted
Trickster's Game trilogy
Barbara Campbell
Shortlisted

2009

Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone
Carol Berg
Won
An Evil Guest
Gene Wolfe
Shortlisted
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
Shortlisted
Pandemonium
Daryl Gregory
Shortlisted
The Bell at Sealey Head
Patricia A. McKillip
Shortlisted

2008

The Orphan's Tales
Catherynne M. Valente
Won
Chronicles of Chaos
John C. Wright
Shortlisted
In the Forest of Forgetting
Theodora Goss
Shortlisted
The New Moon's Arms
Nalo Hopkinson
Shortlisted
Ysabel
Guy Gavriel Kay
Shortlisted

2007

Solstice Wood
Patricia A. McKillip
Won
The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Susanna Clarke
Shortlisted
The Line Between
Peter S. Beagle
Shortlisted
The Necessary Beggar
Susan Palwick
Shortlisted
The Stolen Child
Keith Donohue
Shortlisted
Three Days to Never
Tim Powers
Shortlisted

2006

Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
Won
Metallic Love
Tanith Lee
Shortlisted
The Hallowed Hunt
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortlisted
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood
Shortlisted
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
Tim Pratt
Shortlisted

2005

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Won
Alphabet of Thorn
Patricia A. McKillip
Shortlisted
Mortal Love
Elizabeth Hand
Shortlisted
The Anvil of the World
Kage Baker
Shortlisted
The Wizard Knight
Gene Wolfe
Shortlisted

2004

Sunshine
Robin McKinley
Won
Changing Planes
Ursula K. Le Guin
Shortlisted
Fudoki
Kij Johnson
Shortlisted
In the Forests of Serre
Patricia A. McKillip
Shortlisted
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortlisted

2003

Ombria in Shadow
Patricia A. McKillip
Won
A Fistful of Sky
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Shortlisted
The Fall of the Kings
Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman
Shortlisted

2002

The Curse of Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold
Won
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Shortlisted
Declare
Tim Powers
Shortlisted
Ill Met by Moonlight
Sarah A. Hoyt
Shortlisted
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
Shortlisted

2001

The Innamorati
Midori Snyder
Won
Forests of the Heart
Charles de Lint
Shortlisted
RavenShadow
Win Blevins
Shortlisted
The Sarantine Mosaic
Guy Gavriel Kay
Shortlisted

2000

Tamsin
Peter S. Beagle
Won
Dark Cities Underground
Lisa Goldstein
Shortlisted
Elementals
A. S. Byatt
Shortlisted
The Book of Knights
Yves Meynard
Shortlisted
The Wild Swans
Peg Kerr
Shortlisted