Mythopoeic Awards: winners & nominees

Mythopoeic Awards 2025

• ✦The City in Glass — Nghi Vo· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Fox Wife — Yangsze Choo· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Society of Guenevere· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Warm Hands of Ghosts — Katherine Arden· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Melancholy of Untold History· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Kingdom of Dust — Lisa Stringfellow· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Sona and the Golden Beasts — Rajani LaRocca· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Island of Whispers — Frances Hardinge· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2024

• 🏆Ink Blood Sister Scribe — Emma Törzs· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆The Moth Keeper — Kay O’Neill· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Bookshops & Bonedust — Travis Baldree· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries — Heather Fawcett· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦A Market of Dreams and Destiny — Trip Galey· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Adam Binder series· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Monk and Robot — Becky Chambers· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Just a Pinch of Magic· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Deephaven· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Bea Wolf — Zach Weinersmith· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Dark Lord's Daughter — Patricia Wrede· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Lost Library — Rebecca Stead· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Lost Library — Wendy Mass· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2023

• 🏆When the Angels Left the Old Country· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆The Ogress and the Orphans — Kelly Barnhill· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Cartographers — Peng Shepherd· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Ballad of Perilous Graves — Alex Jennings· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Thistlefoot· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦When Women Were Dragons — Kelly Barnhill· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Last Mapmaker — Christina Soontornvat· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Counterclockwise Heart — Brian Farrey· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Black Bird, Blue Road· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Freddie Vs. the Family Curse· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Beatryce Prophecy — Kate DiCamillo· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2022

• 🏆Jo Walton· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆Pahua and the Soul Stealer· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• 🏆Root Magic — Eden Royce· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Light From Uncommon Stars — Ryka Aoki· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Piranesi — Susanna Clarke· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Witness for the Dead — Sarah Monette· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Terciel & Elinor — Garth Nix· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Coming Storm· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Serpent's Secret — Sayantani DasGupta· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Game of Stars — Sayantani DasGupta· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Chaos Curse — Sayantani DasGupta· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form — Joseph Rex Young· Overall

Mythopoeic Awards 2021

• 🏆The House in the Cerulean Sea — TJ Klune· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking — Ursula Vernon· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Raybearer — Jordan Ifueko· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Magic Lessons — Alice Hoffman· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Left-Handed Booksellers of London — Garth Nix· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦When You Trap a Tiger — Tae Keller· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦ Snapdragon· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Silver Arrow — Lev Grossman· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦A Game of Fox & Squirrels — Jenn Reese· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Snapdragon — Kat Leyh· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe — Carlos Hernandez· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Sal and Gabi Break the Universe — Carlos Hernandez· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2020

• 🏆Snow White Learns Witchcraft — Theodora Goss· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆Dragon Pearl — Yoon Ha Lee· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• 🏆Dragon Pearl — Yoon Ha Lee· Overall
• ✦Lent — Jo Walton· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Bird King — G. Willow Wilson· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Haunting of Tram Car 015 — P. Djèlí Clark· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alix E. Harrow· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦A Tale Magnolious· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Time of Green Magic — Hilary McKay· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Lalani of the Distant Sea — Erin Entrada Kelly· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Lost Girl — Anne Ursu· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2019

• 🏆Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆Bob — Rebecca Stead· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• 🏆Bob — Wendy Mass· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Borderline — Mishell Baker· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Phantom Pains — Mishell Baker· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Impostor Syndrome — Mishell Baker· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Circe — Madeline Miller· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Deep Roots — Ruthanna Emrys· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Litany of Earth — Ruthanna Emrys· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Winter Tide — Ruthanna Emrys· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦In Other Lands — Sarah Rees Brennan· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Tiger vs. Nightmare· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster — Jonathan Auxier· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Giants Beware! — Jorge Aguirre· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

All 18 2019 entries →

Mythopoeic Awards 2018

• 🏆Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr — John Crowley· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆Frogkisser! — Garth Nix· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Rules of Magic — Alice Hoffman· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Passing Strange — Ellen Klages· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Snow City· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Changeling — Victor LaValle· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Song from Somewhere Else — A. F. Harrold· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Tumble & Blue· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Pashmina — Nidhi Chanani· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart — Stephanie Burgis· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2017

• 🏆Kingfisher· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆The Inquisitor's Tale; or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog — Adam Gidwitz· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Dream Thieves — Maggie Stiefvater· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Blue Lily, Lily Blue — Maggie Stiefvater· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Raven King — Maggie Stiefvater· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Raven Boys — Maggie Stiefvater· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Ghost Talkers — Mary Robinette Kowal· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Just City — Jo Walton· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Philosopher Kings — Jo Walton· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Necessity — Jo Walton· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Will Do Magic for Small Change — Andrea Hairston· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Glass Sentence· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Golden Specific· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Crimson Skew· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

All 17 2017 entries →

Mythopoeic Awards 2016

• 🏆Uprooted — Naomi Novik· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆Castle Hangnail — Ursula Vernon· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Shadowshaper — Daniel José Older· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Darkest Part of the Forest — Holly Black· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Buried Giant — Kazuo Ishiguro· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦A Thousand Nights· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Circus Mirandus· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Girl Who Could Not Dream — Sarah Beth Durst· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Serafina and the Black Cloak — Robert Beatty· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2015

• 🏆Tales from Rugosa Coven· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆A Snicker of Magic — Natalie Lloyd· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Angel of Losses — Stephanie Feldman· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Gospel of Loki — Joanne Harris· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Locke & Key — Joe Hill· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦ Locke & Key· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Songs for Ophelia — Theodora Goss· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Locke & Key — Gabriel Rodriguez· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Castle Behind Thorns· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Islands of Chaldea — Ursula Jones· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Islands of Chaldea — Diana Wynne Jones· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Night Gardener — Jonathan Auxier· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Mythopoeic Awards 2014

• 🏆The Golem and the Jinni — Helene Wecker· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• 🏆Doll Bones — Holly Black· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦The Ghost Bride — Yangsze Choo· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Sleepless Knights· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Three Parts Dead — Max Gladstone· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
• ✦Killer of Enemies — Joseph Bruchac· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Conjured — Sarah Beth Durst· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Shadows — Robin McKinley· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
• ✦Ghoulish Song — William Alexander· Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature