Alex Awards

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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.

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[edit] Past Winners

[edit] 2008

  • American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, Matthew Polly
  • Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff
  • Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire
  • Genghis: Birth of an Empire, Conn Iggulden
  • The God of Animals, Aryn Kyle
  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
  • Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  • The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Night Birds, Thomas Maltman
  • The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2000

[edit] 1999

[edit] 1998

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