Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are also a separate award given for excellence in entertainment packaging.

Alex Award
Awarded for adults books with "special appeal" for adolescents
Presented by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
Country  United States
First awarded 1998
Official website http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/alexawards/alexawards.cfm

The Alex Awards is an annual event designed to commend and honor the ten books published for adults during the previous year, which have been also judged to have "special appeal" for young readers, primarily those in the 11 to 18 age range.[1]

The awards, named after the dedicated Baltimore librarian, Margaret Alexander Edwards, who was known as "Alex", are sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist magazine.[2] 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 (YALSA) a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Only one author, Neil Gaiman, has made the list twice.

Alex recipients

Year Author Title
2010[3] William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
2010[3] Meg Rosoff The Bride’s Farewell
2010[3] Ron Currie Jr. Everything Matters!
2010[3] David Finkel The Good Soldiers
2010[3] Diana Welch and Liz Welch The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
2010[3] Lev Grossman The Magicians
2010[3] Peter Rock My Abandonment
2010[3] Gail Carriger Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel
2010[3] David Small Stitches: A Memoir
2010[3] Kevin Wilson Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
2009[4] David Benioff City of Thieves
2009[4] Michael Swanwick The Dragons of Babel
2009[4] Zoë Ferraris Finding Nouf
2009[4] Hannah Tinti The Good Thief
2009[4] Stephen King Just After Sunset: Stories
2009[4] Hillary Jordan Mudbound
2009[4] Todd Tucker Over and Under
2009[4] Stephen G. Bloom The Oxford Project
2009[4] Toby Barlow Sharp Teeth
2009[4] Theresa Rebeck Three Girls and Their Brother
2008[5] Matthew Polly American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
2008[5] Matt Ruff Bad Monkeys
2008[5] Jeff Lemire Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm
2008[5] Conn Iggulden Genghis: Birth of an Empire
2008[5] Aryn Kyle The God of Animals
2008[5] Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2008[5] Lloyd Jones Mister Pip
2008[5] Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind
2008[5] Thomas Maltman The Night Birds
2008[5] Lisa Lutz The Spellman Files
2007[6] John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
2007[6] Ivan Doig The Whistling Season
2007[6] Michael D'Orso Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
2007[6] Sara Gruen Water for Elephants
2007[6] Pamela Carter Joern Floor of the Sky
2007[6] John Hamamura Color of the Sea
2007[6] Michael Lewis The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
2007[6] David Mitchell Black Swan Green
2007[6] Ron Rash The World Made Straight
2007[6] Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale
2006[7] Judy Fong Bates Midnight at the Dragon Café
2006[7] Kalisha Buckhanon Upstate
2006[7] Neil Gaiman Anansi Boys
2006[7] Gregory Galloway As Simple As Snow
2006[7] Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
2006[7] A. Lee Martinez Gil's All Fright Diner
2006[7] Susan Palwick The Necessary Beggar
2006[7] Nancy Rawles My Jim
2006[7] Julia Scheeres Jesus Land: A Memoir
2006[7] Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle: A Memoir
2005[8] Steve Almond Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
2005[8] Lynne Cox Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
2005[8] Brendan Halpin Donorboy
2005[8] Robert Kurson Shadow Divers
2005[8] Kent Meyers Work of Wolves
2005[8] Ann Patchett Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
2005[8] Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
2005[8] Kit Reed Thinner Than Thou
2005[8] Jim Shepard Project X
2005[8] Robert Sullivan Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
2004[9] Amanda Davis Wonder When You'll Miss Me
2004[9] Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
2004[9] Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
2004[9] Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife
2004[9] Z. Z. Packer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
2004[9] Mary Roach Stiff
2004[9] Mark Salzman True Notebooks
2004[9] Marjane Satrapi Persepolis
2004[9] Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs
2004[9] Bart Yates Leave Myself Behind
2003[10] Lynda Barry One Hundred Demons
2003[10] Pat Conroy My Losing Season
2003[10] Timothy Ferris Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
2003[10] Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
2003[10] Mary Lawson Crow Lake
2003[10] Brian Malloy The Year of Ice
2003[10] Julie Otsuka When the Emperor was Divine
2003[10] Ann Packer The Dive from Clausen's Pier
2003[10] Martha Southgate The Fall of Rome
2003[10] Joseph Weisberg 10th Grade
2002[11] Geraldine Brooks Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
2002[11] William Doyle An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi
2002[11] David Anthony Durham Gabriel's Story
2002[11] Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America
2002[11] Leif Enger Peace Like a River
2002[11] Kobie Kruger The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
2002[11] Donna Morrissey Kit's Law
2002[11] Mel Odom The Rover
2002[11] Vineeta Vijayaraghavan Motherland
2002[11] Rebecca Walker Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
2001[12] Darin Strauss Chang and Eng: A Novel
2001[12] Larry Colton Counting Coup
2001[12] Juliet Marillier Daughter of the Forest
2001[12] Alan Watt Diamond Dogs
2001[12] James Bradley and Ron Powers Flags of Our Fathers
2001[12] Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring
2001[12] Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
2001[12] Ben Sherwood The Man Who Ate the 747
2001[12] Gillian Bradshaw The Sand Reckoner
2001[12] June Jordan Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
2000[13] David Breashears High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
2000[13] Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow
2000[13] Breena Clarke River, Cross My Heart
2000[13] Esme Raji Codell Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
2000[13] Jonathon Scott Fuqua The Reappearance of Sam Webber
2000[13] Neil Gaiman Stardust
2000[13] Linda Greenlaw The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
2000[13] Elva Trevino Hart Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
2000[13] Kent Haruf Plainsong
2000[13] Connie Porter Imani All Mine
1999[14] Caroline Alexander The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
1999[14] James Finney Boylan Getting In
1999[14] Andie Dominick Needles
1999[14] John Gilstrap At All Costs
1999[14] Jesse Lee Kercheval Space
1999[14] Steve Kluger Last Days of Summer
1999[14] Robert Silverberg Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
1999[14] Kim Stanley Robinson Antarctica
1999[14] Esmeralda Santiago Almost a Woman
1999[14] Danzy Senna Caucasia
1998[15] David Bodanis The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies
1998[15] Rick Bragg All Over but the Shoutin'
1998[15] Rebecca Carroll Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
1998[15] Karin Cook What Girls Learn
1998[15] Pete Hamill Snow in August
1998[15] Sebastian Junger The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea
1998[15] Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
1998[15] Velma Maia Thomas Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation
1898[15] Dawn Turner Trice Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
1998[15] Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

References

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  2. ^ Carter, Betty. "Who Is Margaret Edwards and What Is This Award Being Given In Her Honor?". The ALAN Review (Spring 1992): 45–48. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/margaretaedwards/whowasedwards/whomargaretedwards.cfm. Retrieved 2009-03-05. 
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