Alex Awards

Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are given annually to the top ten books published during the previous year that were written for adults but which are judged to have "special appeal" for young adults. The first set of awards were presented in 1998.

It is sponsored by "Booklist" magazine and by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust from where the awards get their name, as Edwards preferred to be called "Alex". Since 2002 the awards have been administered by the American Library Association.

Past Winners

2008

* "", Matthew Polly
* "Bad Monkeys", Matt Ruff
* "", Jeff Lemire
* "", Conn Iggulden
* "The God of Animals", Aryn Kyle
* "", Ishmael Beah
* "Mister Pip", Lloyd Jones
* "The Name of the Wind", Patrick Rothfuss
* "The Night Birds", Thomas Maltman
* "The Spellman Files", Lisa Lutz

2007

* "The Book of Lost Things", John Connolly
* "The Whistling Season", Ivan Doig
* "", Michael D'Orso
* "Water for Elephants", Sara Gruen
* "Floor of the Sky", Pamela Carter Joern
* "Color of the Sea", John Hamamura
* "", Michael Lewis
* "Black Swan Green", David Mitchell
* "The World Made Straight", Ron Rash
* "The Thirteenth Tale", Diane Setterfield

2006

* "Midnight at the Dragon Café", Judy Fong Bates
* "Upstate", Kalisha Buckhanon
* "Anansi Boys", Neil Gaiman
* "As Simple As Snow", Gregory Galloway
* "Never Let Me Go", Kazuo Ishiguro
* "Gil's All Fright Diner", A. Lee Martinez
* "The Necessary Beggar", Susan Palwick
* "My Jim", Nancy Rawles
* "", Julia Scheeres
* "", Jeannette Walls

2005

* "", Steve Almond
* "", Lynn Cox
* "Donorboy", Brendan Halpin
* "Shadow Divers", Robert Kurson
* "Work of Wolves", Kent Meyers
* "", Ann Patchett
* "My Sister's Keeper", Jodi Picoult
* "Thinner Than Thou", Kit Reed
* "Project X", Jim Shepard
* "", Robert Sullivan

2004

* "Wonder When You'll Miss Me", Amanda Davis
* "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time", Mark Haddon
* "The Kite Runner", Khaled Hosseini
* "The Time Traveler's Wife", Audrey Niffenegger
* "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere", Z.Z. Packer
* "", Mary Roach
* "True Notebooks", Mark Salzman
* "Persepolis", Marjane Satrapi
* "Maisie Dobbs", Jacqueline Winspear
* "Leave Myself Behind", Bart Yates

2003

* "One Hundred Demons", Lynda Barry
* "My Losing Season", Pat Conroy
* "", Timothy Ferris
* "The Eyre Affair", Jasper Fforde
* "Crow Lake", Mary Lawson
* "The Year of Ice", Brian Malloy
* "When the Emperor Was Divine", Julie Otsuka
* "The Dive from Clausen's Pier", Ann Packer
* "The Fall of Rome", Martha Southgate
* "10th Grade", Joseph Weisberg

2002

* "", Geraldine Brooks
* "", William Doyle
* "Gabriel's Story", David Anthony Durham
* "", Barbara Ehrenreich
* "Peace Like a River", Leif Enger
* "", Kobie Kruger
* "Kit's Law", Donna Morrissey
* "The Rover", Mel Odom
* "Motherland", Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
* "", Rebecca Walker

2001

* "", Darin Strauss
* "Counting Coup", Larry Colton
* "Daughter of the Forest", Juliet Marillier
* "Diamond Dogs", Alan Watt
* "Flags of Our Fathers", James Bradley and Ron Powers
* "Girl with a Pearl Earring", Tracy Chevalier
* "", Nathaniel Philbrick
* "The Man Who Ate the 747", Ben Sherwood
* "The Sand Reckoner", Gillian Bradshaw
* "", June Jordan

2000

* "", David Breashears
* "Ender's Shadow", Orson Scott Card
* "River, Cross My Heart", Breena Clarke
* "", Esmé Raji Codell
* "The Reappearance of Sam Webber", Jonathon Scott Fuqua
* "Stardust", Neil Gaiman
* "", Linda Greenlaw
* "", Elva Trevino Hart
* "Plainsong", Kent Haruf
* "Imani All Mine", Connie Porter

1999

* "", Caroline Alexander
* "Getting In", James Finney Boylan
* "Needles", Andie Dominick
* "At All Costs", John Gilstrap
* "Space", Jesse Lee Kercheval
* "Last Days of Summer", Steve Kluger
* "", editor: Robert Silverberg
* "Antarctica", Kim Stanley Robinson
* "Almost a Woman", Esmeralda Santiago
* "Caucasia", Danzy Senna

1998

* "", David Bodanis
* "All Over but the Shoutin'", Rick Bragg
* "", Rebecca Carroll
* "What Girls Learn", Karin Cook
* "Snow in August", Pete Hamill
* "", Sebastian Junger
* "", Jon Krakauer
* "", Velma Maia Thomas
* "Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven", Dawn Turner Trice
* "To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last", Connie Willis

External Links

* [http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/alexawards/alexawards.cfm Official website]


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