Alex Awards
The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18". 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.
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. 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, a division of the American Library Association.
Alex recipients
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| 2020 | C.A. Fletcher | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World | |
| 2020 | Temi Oh | Do You Dream of Terra-Two? | |
| 2020 | Angie Cruz | Dominicana | |
| 2020 | Maia Kobabe | Gender Queer: A Memoir | |
| 2020 | Tegan and Sara | High School | |
| 2020 | AJ Dungo | In Waves | |
| 2020 | Seanan McGuire | Middlegame | |
| 2020 | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | |
| 2020 | Casey McQuiston | Red, White & Royal Blue | |
| 2020 | Lisa Lutz | The Swallows | |
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| 2019 | Circe | ||
| 2019 | Educated: A Memoir | ||
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| 2019 | Green | ||
| 2019 | Home After Dark | ||
| 2019 | How Long ’Til Black Future Month? | ||
| 2019 | Lawn Boy | ||
| 2019 | Spinning Silver | ||
| 2018 | All Systems Red | ||
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| 2018 | Down Among the Sticks and Bones | ||
| 2018 | Electric Arches | ||
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| 2018 | Malagash | ||
| 2018 | Roughneck | ||
| 2018 | She Rides Shotgun | ||
| 2018 | Things We Have in Common | ||
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| 2017 | with Michelle Burford | ' | |
| 2017 | Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded | ||
| 2017 | Arena | ||
| 2017 | Every Heart a Doorway | ||
| 2017 | Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure | ||
| 2017 | Die Young with Me: A Memoir | ||
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| 2016 | All Involved | ||
| 2016 | Between the World and Me | ||
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| 2016 | Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | ||
| 2016 | Girl at War | ||
| 2016 | Half the World | ||
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| 2016 | Sacred Heart | ||
| 2016 | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | ||
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| 2013 | Pure | ||
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| 2013 | Tell The Wolves I'm Home | ||
| 2013 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? | ||
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| 2009 | Finding Nouf | ||
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| 2009 | Just After Sunset: Stories | ||
| 2009 | Mudbound | ||
| 2009 | Over and Under | ||
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| 2009 | Sharp Teeth | ||
| 2009 | Three Girls and Their Brother | ||
| 2008 | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China | ||
| 2008 | Bad Monkeys | ||
| 2008 | Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm | ||
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| 2008 | Mister Pip | ||
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| 2007 | Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska | ||
| 2007 | Water for Elephants | ||
| 2007 | Floor of the Sky | ||
| 2007 | Color of the Sea | ||
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| 2007 | Black Swan Green | ||
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| 2006 | Midnight at the Dragon Café | ||
| 2006 | Upstate | ||
| 2006 | Anansi Boys | ||
| 2006 | As Simple As Snow | ||
| 2006 | Never Let Me Go | ||
| 2006 | Gil's All Fright Diner | ||
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| 2006 | My Jim | ||
| 2006 | Jesus Land: A Memoir | ||
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| 2005 | Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America | ||
| 2005 | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer | ||
| 2005 | Donorboy | ||
| 2005 | Shadow Divers | ||
| 2005 | Work of Wolves | ||
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| 2005 | My Sister's Keeper | ||
| 2005 | Thinner Than Thou | ||
| 2005 | Project X | ||
| 2005 | Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants | ||
| 2004 | Wonder When You'll Miss Me | ||
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| 2004 | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | ||
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| 2004 | True Notebooks | ||
| 2004 | Persepolis | ||
| 2004 | Maisie Dobbs | ||
| 2004 | Leave Myself Behind | ||
| 2003 | One! Hundred! Demons! | ||
| 2003 | My Losing Season | ||
| 2003 | Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril | ||
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| 2003 | Crow Lake | ||
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| 2003 | When the Emperor was Divine | ||
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| 2003 | 10th Grade | ||
| 2002 | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague | ||
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| 2002 | Gabriel's Story | ||
| 2002 | Nickel and Dimed: On Getting by in Boom-Time America | ||
| 2002 | Peace Like a River | ||
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| 2002 | Kit's Law | ||
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| 2002 | Motherland | ||
| 2002 | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self | ||
| 2001 | Chang and Eng: A Novel | ||
| 2001 | Counting Coup | ||
| 2001 | Daughter of the Forest | ||
| 2001 | Diamond Dogs | ||
| 2001 | Flags of Our Fathers | ||
| 2001 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | ||
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| 2001 | Soldier: A Poet's Childhood | ||
| 2000 | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places | ||
| 2000 | Ender's Shadow | ||
| 2000 | River, Cross My Heart | ||
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| 2000 | Stardust | ||
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| 2000 | Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child | ||
| 2000 | Plainsong | ||
| 2000 | Imani All Mine | ||
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| 1999 | Getting In | ||
| 1999 | Needles | ||
| 1999 | At All Costs | ||
| 1999 | Space | ||
| 1999 | Last Days of Summer | ||
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| 1999 | Antarctica | ||
| 1999 | Almost a Woman | ||
| 1999 | Caucasia | ||
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| 1998 | All Over but the Shoutin | ||
| 1998 | Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America | ||
| 1998 | What Girls Learn | ||
| 1998 | Snow in August | ||
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| 1998 | Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation | ||
| 1998 | Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven | ||
| 1998 | To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last'' |