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