Non-fiction
Virgins, Weeders and Queens, by Twigs Way (2018)
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler, by Lynelle George (2021)
The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang, by Philip Bates (2023)
Scripts
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne (2017)
Poetry
Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley (2021)
Speculative fiction
Deep Dive, by Ron Walters (2023)
Doctor Who, etc
The Price of Paradise, by Colin Brake (2009)
The Shakespeare Notebooks, by Goss, Morris, Richards, Richards & Sweet (2014)
Fear of the Dark, by Trevor Baxendale (2024)
Comics
Pussey!, by Daniel Clowes (2007)
Not as many as usual today. I will trim the Honorable Mentions, but I’ll also say that all three of the Doctor Who books are rather good (you can get them here, here and here)
The Best
Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley, won the Hugo for Best Related Work that year; I didn’t vote for it, but it’s a great new take on an old story. (Get it here.)
The one you haven’t heard of
My old friend Twigs Way is a historian of gardening, and while I am not a gardener myself, Virgins, Weeders and Queens is a great historical miscellany. (Get it here, republished as A History of Women in the Garden.)
The one to avoid
Deep Dive was one of the Clarke submissions that year which failed to gel with me. (Get it here.)