Alex Awards
The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18".[1] Essentially, the award is a listing by the American Library Association parallel to its annual Best Books for Young Adults, a longer list of recommended books that have been promoted in the YA category. Since 2002, the Alex Awards have been administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). YALSA also names several other "Top Tens" annually.[2]
| Alex Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Adults books with "special appeal" for adolescents |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association |
| First awarded | 1998 |
| Website | ala |
The awards, named after Baltimore librarian Margaret Alexander Edwards, who was known as "Alex," are sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist magazine.[3] The list of books published during the previous year serves to provide the choice of titles selected for the awards, which were initially bestowed in 1998.
Alex recipients
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1998[4] | David Bodanis | The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies |
| Rick Bragg | All Over but the Shoutin' | |
| Rebecca Carroll | Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America | |
| Karin Cook | What Girls Learn | |
| Pete Hamill | Snow in August | |
| Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea | |
| Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster | |
| Velma Maia Thomas | Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation | |
| Dawn Turner Trice | Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven | |
| Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last | |
| 1999[5] | Caroline Alexander | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition |
| James Finney Boylan | Getting In | |
| Andie Dominick | Needles | |
| John Gilstrap | At All Costs | |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval | Space | |
| Steve Kluger | Last Days of Summer | |
| Robert Silverberg | Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica | |
| Esmeralda Santiago | Almost a Woman | |
| Danzy Senna | Caucasia | |
| 2000[6] | David Breashears | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places |
| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow | |
| Breena Clarke | River, Cross My Heart | |
| Esmé Raji Codell | Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year | |
| Jonathon Scott Fuqua | The Reappearance of Sam Webber | |
| Neil Gaiman | Stardust | |
| Linda Greenlaw | The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey | |
| Elva Trevino Hart | Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child | |
| Kent Haruf | Plainsong | |
| Connie Porter | Imani All Mine | |
| 2001[7] | Darin Strauss | Chang and Eng: A Novel |
| Larry Colton | Counting Coup | |
| Juliet Marillier | Daughter of the Forest | |
| Alan Watt | Diamond Dogs | |
| James Bradley and Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers | |
| Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a Pearl Earring | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | |
| Ben Sherwood | The Man Who Ate the 747 | |
| Gillian Bradshaw | The Sand Reckoner | |
| June Jordan | Soldier: A Poet's Childhood | |
| 2002[8] | Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague |
| William Doyle | An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi | |
| David Anthony Durham | Gabriel's Story | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America | |
| Leif Enger | Peace Like a River | |
| Kobie Kruger | The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife | |
| Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law | |
| Mel Odom | The Rover | |
| Vineeta Vijayaraghavan | Motherland | |
| Rebecca Walker | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self | |
| 2003[9] | Lynda Barry | One! Hundred! Demons! |
| Pat Conroy | My Losing Season | |
| Timothy Ferris | Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril | |
| Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair | |
| Mary Lawson | Crow Lake | |
| Brian Malloy | The Year of Ice | |
| Julie Otsuka | When the Emperor was Divine | |
| Ann Packer | The Dive from Clausen's Pier | |
| Martha Southgate | The Fall of Rome | |
| Joseph Weisberg | 10th Grade | |
| 2004[10] | Amanda Davis | Wonder When You'll Miss Me |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | |
| Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | |
| ZZ Packer | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | |
| Mary Roach | Stiff | |
| Mark Salzman | True Notebooks | |
| Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis | |
| Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | |
| Bart Yates | Leave Myself Behind | |
| 2005[11] | Steve Almond | Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America |
| Lynne Cox | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer | |
| Brendan Halpin | Donorboy | |
| Robert Kurson | Shadow Divers | |
| Kent Meyers | Work of Wolves | |
| Ann Patchett | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship | |
| Jodi Picoult | My Sister's Keeper | |
| Kit Reed | Thinner Than Thou | |
| Jim Shepard | Project X | |
| Robert Sullivan | Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants | |
| 2006[12] | Judy Fong Bates | Midnight at the Dragon Café |
| Kalisha Buckhanon | Upstate | |
| Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys | |
| Gregory Galloway | As Simple As Snow | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | |
| A. Lee Martinez | Gil's All Fright Diner | |
| Susan Palwick | The Necessary Beggar | |
| Nancy Rawles | My Jim | |
| Julia Scheeres | Jesus Land: A Memoir | |
| Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle: A Memoir | |
| 2007[13] | John Connolly | The Book of Lost Things |
| Ivan Doig | The Whistling Season | |
| Michael D'Orso | Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska | |
| Sara Gruen | Water for Elephants | |
| Pamela Carter Joern | Floor of the Sky | |
| John Hamamura | Color of the Sea | |
| Michael Lewis | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game | |
| David Mitchell | Black Swan Green | |
| Ron Rash | The World Made Straight | |
| Diane Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale | |
| 2008[14] | Matthew Polly | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China |
| Matt Ruff | Bad Monkeys | |
| Jeff Lemire | Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm | |
| Conn Iggulden | Genghis: Birth of an Empire | |
| Aryn Kyle | The God of Animals | |
| Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | |
| Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind | |
| Thomas Maltman | The Night Birds | |
| Lisa Lutz | The Spellman Files | |
| 2009[15] | David Benioff | City of Thieves |
| Michael Swanwick | The Dragons of Babel | |
| Zoë Ferraris | Finding Nouf | |
| Hannah Tinti | The Good Thief | |
| Stephen King | Just After Sunset: Stories | |
| Hillary Jordan | Mudbound | |
| Todd Tucker | Over and Under | |
| Stephen G. Bloom | The Oxford Project | |
| Toby Barlow | Sharp Teeth | |
| Theresa Rebeck | Three Girls and Their Brother | |
| 2010[16] | William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope |
| Meg Rosoff | The Bride’s Farewell | |
| Ron Currie Jr. | Everything Matters! | |
| David Finkel | The Good Soldiers | |
| Diana Welch and Liz Welch | The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir | |
| Lev Grossman | The Magicians | |
| Peter Rock | My Abandonment | |
| Gail Carriger | Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel | |
| David Small | Stitches: A Memoir | |
| Kevin Wilson | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth | |
| 2011[17] | DC Pierson | The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To |
| Liz Murray | Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard | |
| Jean Kwok | Girl in Translation | |
| Peter Bognanni | The House of Tomorrow | |
| Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist | |
| Aimee Bender | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | |
| Matt Haig | The Radleys | |
| Alden Bell | The Reapers Are the Angels | |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | |
| Helen Grant | The Vanishing of Katharina Linden | |
| 2012[18] | Rachel DeWoskin | Big Girl Small |
| Jo Ann Beard | In Zanesville | |
| David Levithan | The Lover's Dictionary | |
| Brooke Hauser | The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens | |
| Erin Morgenstern | The Night Circus | |
| Ernest Cline | Ready Player One | |
| Daniel H. Wilson | Robopocalypse | |
| Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones | |
| Caroline Preston | The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures | |
| Roland Merullo | The Talk-Funny Girl | |
| 2013[19] | David Zimmerman | Caring is Creepy |
| Tupelo Hassman | Girlchild | |
| Richard Ross | Juvenile in Justice | |
| Robin Sloan | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | |
| Derf Backderf | My Friend Dahmer | |
| Chris Ballard | One Shot at Forever | |
| Julianna Baggott | Pure | |
| Louise Erdrich | The Round House | |
| Carol Rifka Brunt | Tell The Wolves I'm Home | |
| Maria Semple | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? | |
| 2014[20] | Mark Slouka | Brewster |
| Lisa O’Donnell | The Death of Bees | |
| Abigail Tarttelin | Golden Boy | |
| John Searles | Help for the Haunted | |
| Max Barry | Lexicon: A Novel | |
| Wesley Chu | Lives of Tao | |
| Koren Zailckas | Mother, Mother | |
| Lucy Knisley | Relish: My Life in the Kitchen | |
| Katja Millay | The Sea of Tranquility | |
| Gavin Extence | The Universe Versus Alex Woods | |
| 2015[21] | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
| Kate Racculia | Bellweather Rhapsody | |
| James A. Levine | Bingo's Run | |
| Kanae Minato | Confessions | |
| Celeste Ng | Everything I Never Told You | |
| John Scalzi | Lock In | |
| Andy Weir | The Martian | |
| Zak Ebrahim | The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice | |
| Michael Koryta | Those Who Wish Me Dead | |
| John Darnielle | Wolf in White Van | |
| 2016[22] | Ryan Gattis | All Involved |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me | |
| Camille DeAngelis | Bones & All | |
| David Wong | Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | |
| Sara Nović | Girl at War | |
| Joe Abercrombie | Half the World | |
| Brandon Stanton | Humans of New York: Stories | |
| Liz Suburbia | Sacred Heart | |
| Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | |
| Keija Parssinen | The Unraveling of Mercy Louis | |
| 2017[23] | Sarah Beth Durst | The Queen of Blood |
| Manuel Gonzales | The Regional Office is Under Attack! | |
| Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford | In the Country We Love: My Family Divided | |
| Hannah Hart | Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded | |
| Holly Jennings | Arena | |
| Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway | |
| Ryan North | Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure | |
| Rob Rufus | Die Young with Me: A Memoir | |
| Matt Simon | The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar | |
| Scott Stambach | The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko | |
| 2018[24] | Martha Wells | All Systems Red |
| Daniel H. Wilson | The Clockwork Dynasty | |
| Seanan McGuire | Down Among the Sticks and Bones | |
| Eve Ewing | Electric Arches | |
| Melissa Fleming | A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea | |
| Joey Comeau | Malagash | |
| Jeff Lemire | Roughneck | |
| Jordan Harper | She Rides Shotgun | |
| Tasha Kavanagh | Things We Have in Common | |
| Kat Howard | An Unkindness of Magicians | |
| 2019[25] | P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God’s Drums |
| Meghan MacLean Weir | The Book of Essie | |
| Madeline Miller | Circe | |
| Tara Westover | Educated: A Memoir | |
| Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil | The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After | |
| Sam Graham-Felsen | Green | |
| David Small | Home After Dark | |
| N. K. Jemisin | How Long 'til Black Future Month? | |
| Jonathan Evison | Lawn Boy | |
| Naomi Novik | Spinning Silver | |
| 2020[26] | C.A. Fletcher | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World |
| Temi Oh | Do You Dream of Terra-Two? | |
| Angie Cruz | Dominicana | |
| Maia Kobabe | Gender Queer: A Memoir | |
| Tegan and Sara | High School | |
| AJ Dungo | In Waves | |
| Seanan McGuire | Middlegame | |
| Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | |
| Casey McQuiston | Red, White & Royal Blue | |
| Lisa Lutz | The Swallows | |
| 2021[27] | Rebecca Roanhorse | Black Sun |
| TJ Klune | The House in the Cerulean Sea | |
| Colin O'Brady | The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone | |
| Derf Backderf | Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio | |
| Gretchen Anthony | The Kids Are Gonna Ask | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | |
| Emily M. Danforth | Plain Bad Heroines | |
| Tochi Onyebuchi | Riot Baby | |
| Allie Brosh | Solutions and Other Problems | |
| Quan Barry | We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel | |
| 2022[28] | Ryka Aoki | Light from Uncommon Stars |
| Marianne Cronin | The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot | |
| Genevieve Gornichec | The Witch’s Heart | |
| T. L. Huchu | The Library of the Dead | |
| Will Leitch | How Lucky | |
| Everina Maxwell | Winter’s Orbit | |
| Kate Quinn | The Rose Code | |
| Kareem Rosser | Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever | |
| Rachel Smythe | Lore Olympus, Vol. 1 | |
| Heather Walter | Malice |
External Links
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