Alex Award

Given by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

270 Works 845,455 Books 36,471 Reviews 4.0
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex show more Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official American Library Association (ALA) award in 2002. See ALA website. show less
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All, 2024 (10), 2023 (10), 2022 (10), 2021 (10), 2020 (10), 2019 (10), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (10), 2013 (10), 2012 (10), 2011 (10), 2010 (10), 2009 (10), 2008 (9), 2007 (11), 2006 (10), 2005 (10), 2004 (10), 2003 (10), 2002 (10), 2001 (10), 2000 (10), 1999 (10), 1998 (10)
Announced:
January 22: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2024
The Talk by Darrin Bell
2024
Maame by Jessica George
2024
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
2024
I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel by Khashayar J. Khabushani
2024
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
2024
The Hard Parts: A Story of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters
2024
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
2024
Chlorine by Jade Song
2024
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2024
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
2023
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
2023
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
2023
Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez
2023
True Biz by Sara Novic
2023
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
2023
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
2023
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner
2023
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
2023
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
2023
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
2022
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
2022
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
2022
The Library of the Dead by Tendai Huchu
2022
How Lucky by Will Leitch
2022
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
2022
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
2022
Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever by Kareem Rosser
2022
Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
2022
Malice by Heather Walter
2022
The Kids Are Gonna Ask: A Novel by Gretchen Anthony
2021
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
2021
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
2021
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
2021
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
2021
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
2021
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
2021
The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice―Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady
2021
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
2021
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
2021
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
2020
In Waves by AJ Dungo
2020
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
2020
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
2020
The Swallows by Lisa Lutz
2020
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
2020
Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston
2020
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
2020
High School by Sara Quin
2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2020
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
2019
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
2019
Green: A Novel by Sam Graham-Felsen
2019
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
2019
Circe by Madeline Miller
2019
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
2019
Home After Dark: A Novel by David Small
2019
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
2019
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
2019
Malagash by Joey Comeau
2018
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
2018
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
2018
She Rides Shotgun: A Novel by Jordan Harper
2018
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
2018
Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh
2018
Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
2018
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
2018
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
2018
The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson
2018
The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
2017
The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
2017
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
2017
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart
2017
Arena by Holly Jennings
2017
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
2017
Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North
2017
Die Young with Me: A Memoir by Rob Rufus
2017
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems by Matt Simon
2017
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
2017
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2016
Bones & All: A Novel by Camille DeAngelis
2016
All Involved by Ryan Gattis
2016
Girl at War by Sara Novic
2016
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
2016
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
2016
Humans of New York : Stories by Brandon Stanton
2016
Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia
2016
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
2016
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2015
The terrorist's son by Zak Ebrahim
2015
Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
2015
Bingo's Run: A Novel by James A. Levine
2015
Confessions by Kanae Minato
2015
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2015
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
2015
Lock In by John Scalzi
2015
The Martian by Andy Weir
2015
Lexicon by Max Barry
2014
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
2014
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
2014
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
2014
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
2014
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
2014
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
2014
Brewster by Mark Slouka
2014
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
2014
Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas
2014
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
2013
Pure by Julianna Baggott
2013
One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season by Chris Ballard
2013
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2013
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
2013
Richard Ross: Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross
2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
2013
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
2013
Caring Is Creepy by David Zimmerman
2013
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
2012
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
2012
Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
2012
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Brooke Hauser
2012
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
2012
The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel by Roland Merullo
2012
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2012
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston
2012
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
2012
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
2012
The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel by Alden Bell
2011
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
2011
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
2011
Room by Emma Donoghue
2011
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
2011
The Radleys by Matt Haig
2011
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
2011
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
2011
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray
2011
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson
2011
Soulless by Gail Carriger
2010
Everything Matters! by Jr. Ron Currie
2010
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
2010
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
2010
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
2010
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
2010
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
2010
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
2010
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch
2010
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
2010
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
2009
City of Thieves by David Benioff
2009
The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein
2009
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
2009
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
2009
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
2009
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck
2009
The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
2009
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
2009
Over and Under by Todd Tucker
2009
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
2008
Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden
2008
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
2008
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
2008
Essex County, Volume 1: Tales from the Farm by Jeff Lemire
2008
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
2008
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
2008
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly
2008
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
2008
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
2007
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
2007
Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D'Orso
2007
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2007
Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
2007
Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern
2007
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
2007
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2007
The World Made Straight by Ron Rash
2007
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
2007
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
2007
Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates
2006
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
2006
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
2006
As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway
2006
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2006
Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez
2006
The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick
2006
My Jim by Nancy Rawles
2006
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
2006
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
2006
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
2005
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
2005
Donorboy by Brendan Halpin
2005
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
2005
The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
2005
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
2005
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
2005
Thinner Than Thou by Kit Reed
2005
Project X by Jim Shepard
2005
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
2005
Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2004
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2004
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
2004
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
2004
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
2004
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
2004
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
2004
Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
2004
One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry
2003
My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
2003
Seeing in the dark by Timothy Ferris
2003
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
2003
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
2003
The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
2003
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
2003
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
2003
The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
2003
10th Grade by Joe Weisberg
2003
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
2002
An American insurrection : the battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by William Doyle
2002
Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham
2002
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
2002
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
2002
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife by Kobie Kruger
2002
Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
2002
The Rover by Mel Odom
2002
Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
2002
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
2002
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
2001
The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associates Books) by Gillian Bradshaw
2001
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
2001
Counting Coup by Larry Colton
2001
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan
2001
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
2001
The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood
2001
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
2001
Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt
2001
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears
2000
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
2000
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
2000
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell
2000
The Reappearance of Sam Webber by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
2000
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
2000
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw
2000
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Treviño Hart
2000
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
2000
Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
2000
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
1999
Getting In by James Finney Boylan
1999
Needles by Andie Dominick
1999
At All Costs by John Gilstrap
1999
Space by Jesse Lee Kercheval
1999
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
1999
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
1999
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
1999
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
1999
Legends I: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by Robert Silverberg
1999
The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies by David Bodanis
1998
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
1998
Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll
1998
What Girls Learn by Karin Cook
1998
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
1998
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
1998
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
1998
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation by Velma Maia Thomas
1998
Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice
1998
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
1998

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