Book awards: Alex Award

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Works (141)

Titles	Order
Wicked Game by Jeri Smith-Ready	nominee
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg	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
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger	1998
The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies by David Bodanis	1998
Snow in August by Pete Hamill	1998
Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll	1998
To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis	1998
What Girls Learn by Karin Cook	1998
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson	1999
At All Costs by John Gilstrap	1999
Caucasia by Danzy Senna	1999
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander	1999
Getting In by James Finney Boylan	1999
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger	1999
Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by Robert Silverberg	1999
Needles by Andie Dominick	1999
Space by Jesse Lee Kercheval	1999
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago	1999
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Trevino Hart	2000
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell	2000
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card	2000
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears	2000
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw	2000
Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter	2000
Plainsong by Kent Haruf	2000
The Reappearance of Sam Webber by Jonathon Scott Fuqua	2000
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke	2000
Stardust by Neil Gaiman	2000
Chang and Eng: A Novel by Darin Strauss	2001
Counting Coup by Larry Colton	2001
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier	2001
Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt	2001
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley	2001
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier	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
The Sand Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw	2001
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan	2001
An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by William Doyle	2002
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker	2002
Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham	2002
Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey	2002
Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan	2002
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich	2002
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger	2002
The Rover by Mel Odom	2002
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife by Kobie Kruger	2002
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks	2002
10th Grade by Joe Weisberg	2003
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson	2003
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer	2003
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde	2003
The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate	2003
My Losing Season by Pat Conroy	2003
One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry	2003
Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris	2003
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka	2003
The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy	2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon	2004
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer	2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini	2004
Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates	2004
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear	2004
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi	2004
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach	2004
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger	2004
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman	2004
Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis	2004
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond	2005
Donorboy by Brendan Halpin	2005
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult	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
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson	2005
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox	2005
Thinner Than Thou by Kit Reed	2005
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett	2005
Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers	2005
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman	2006
As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway	2006
Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez	2006
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls	2006
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres	2006
Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates	2006
My Jim by Nancy Rawles	2006
The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick	2006
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro	2006
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon	2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell	2007
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis	2007
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly	2007
Color of the Sea by John Hamamura	2007
Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D'Orso	2007
Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern	2007
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield	2007
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen	2007
The whistling season by Ivan Doig	2007
The World Made Straight by Ron Rash	2007
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
Essex County, Volume 1: Tales from the Farm by Jeff Lemire	2008
Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden	2008
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle	2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah	2008
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones	2008
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss	2008
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman	2008
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz	2008
City of Thieves by David Benioff	2009
The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick	2009
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti	2009
Just After Sunset by Stephen King	2009
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan	2009
The Night of the Mi'raj by Zoe Ferraris	2009
Over and Under by Todd Tucker	2009
The Oxford Project by Stephen G. Bloom	2009
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow	2009
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck	2009
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba	2010
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff	2010
Everything Matters!: A Novel by Ron Currie Jr.	2010
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel	2010
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch	2010
The Magicians by Lev Grossman	2010
My Abandonment by Peter Rock	2010
Soulless by Gail Carriger	2010
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small	2010
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson	2010
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson	2011
Breaking Night by Liz Murray	2011
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok	2011
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni	2011
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton	2011
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender	2011
The Radleys by Matt Haig	2011
The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell	2011
Room by Emma Donoghue	2011
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant	2011

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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 Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official American Library Association (ALA) award in 2002. See ALA website.