Alex Awards
Alex Award | |
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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 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]
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 |
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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 | |
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 | |
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife | ||
Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law | |
Mel Odom | The Rover | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Floor of the Sky | ||
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 | |
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 | |
Sharp Teeth | ||
Theresa Rebeck | Three Girls and Their Brother | |
2010[16] | William Kamkwamba and | 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 | |
and | 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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Sacred Heart | ||
Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | |
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 | |
Arena | ||
Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway | |
Ryan North | Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure | |
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 | |
Things We Have in Common | ||
Kat Howard | An Unkindness of Magicians | |
2019[25] | P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God’s Drums |
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] | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World | |
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 | |
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 |
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot | ||
The Witch’s Heart | ||
The Library of the Dead | ||
Will Leitch | How Lucky | |
Winter’s Orbit | ||
Kate Quinn | The Rose Code | |
Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever | ||
Rachel Smythe | Lore Olympus, Vol. 1 | |
Malice |
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References[]
- ^ a b "YALSA's Alex Awards". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved May 4, 2013. With links to previous annual lists at the foot of the page.
- ^ "YALSA's Best of the Best". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ Carter, Betty. "Who Is Margaret Edwards and What Is This Award Being Given In Her Honor?". The ALAN Review (Spring 1992): 45–48. Archived from the original on December 26, 2008. Retrieved March 5, 2009.
- ^ "Alex Awards". 1998. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "1999 Alex Awards". Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "2000 Alex Awards". Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "2001 Alex Awards". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). January 3, 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
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- ^ "2010 Alex Awards". Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "Alex Awards 2011". Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ^ "YALSA's Alex Awards. 2012 Winners". Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "YALSA's Alex Awards. 2013 Winners". Retrieved January 31, 2014.
- ^ "YALSA's Alex Awards. 2014 Winners". Retrieved January 31, 2014.
- ^ "2015 Alex Awards Winner | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)". www.ala.org. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
- ^ Macey, Morales (January 11, 2016). "YALSA announces 2016 Alex Awards". American Library Association. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
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