Alex Award

Given by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

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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 vis mere Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official American Library Association (ALA) award in 2002. See ALA website. vis mindre
Years:
Alle, 2023 (10), 2022 (10), 2021 (10), 2020 (10), 2019 (10), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (10), 2013 (10), 2012 (10), 2011 (10), 2010 (10), 2009 (10), 2008 (9), 2007 (11), 2006 (10), 2005 (10), 2004 (11), 2003 (10), 2002 (10), 2001 (10), 2000 (10), 1999 (10), 1998 (10)
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A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting af Sophie Irwin
2023
Babel, Or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution af R.F. Kuang
2023
I'm Glad My Mom Died af Jennette McCurdy
2023
Chef's Kiss af Jarrett Melendez
2023
True Biz af Sara Novic
2023
Wash Day Diaries af Jamila Rowser
2023
The Kaiju Preservation Society af John Scalzi
2023
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. af James Spooner
2023
Daughter of the Moon Goddess af Sue Lynn Tan
2023
Solito: A Memoir af Javier Zamora
2023
Light From Uncommon Stars af Ryka Aoki
2022
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot af Marianne Cronin
2022
The Witch's Heart af Genevieve Gornichec
2022
The Library of the Dead af Tendai Huchu
2022
How Lucky af Will Leitch
2022
Winter's Orbit af Everina Maxwell
2022
The Rose Code af Kate Quinn
2022
Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever af Kareem Rosser
2022
Lore Olympus: Volume One af Rachel Smythe
2022
Malice af Heather Walter
2022
The Kids Are Gonna Ask: A Novel af Gretchen Anthony
2021
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio af Derf Backderf
2021
We Ride Upon Sticks af Quan Barry
2021
Solutions and Other Problems af Allie Brosh
2021
Plain Bad Heroines af Emily M. Danforth
2021
The Only Good Indians af Stephen Graham Jones
2021
The House in the Cerulean Sea af TJ Klune
2021
The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice―Crossing Antarctica Alone af Colin O'Brady
2021
Riot Baby af Tochi Onyebuchi
2021
Black Sun af Rebecca Roanhorse
2021
Dominicana af Angie Cruz
2020
In Waves af AJ Dungo
2020
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World af C. A. Fletcher
2020
Gender Queer: A Memoir af Maia Kobabe
2020
The Swallows af Lisa Lutz
2020
Middlegame af Seanan McGuire
2020
Red, White, and Royal Blue af Casey McQuiston
2020
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? af Temi Oh
2020
High School af Sara Quin
2020
The Nickel Boys af Colson Whitehead
2020
The Black God's Drums af P. Djèlí Clark
2019
Lawn Boy af Jonathan Evison
2019
Green: A Novel af Sam Graham-Felsen
2019
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? af N. K. Jemisin
2019
Circe af Madeline Miller
2019
Spinning Silver af Naomi Novik
2019
Home After Dark: A Novel af David Small
2019
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After af Clemantine Wamariya
2019
The Book of Essie af Meghan MacLean Weir
2019
Educated: A Memoir af Tara Westover
2019
Malagash af Joey Comeau
2018
Electric Arches af Eve L. Ewing
2018
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival af Melissa Fleming
2018
She Rides Shotgun: A Novel af Jordan Harper
2018
An Unkindness of Magicians af Kat Howard
2018
Things We Have in Common af Tasha Kavanagh
2018
Roughneck af Jeff Lemire
2018
Down Among the Sticks and Bones af Seanan McGuire
2018
All Systems Red af Martha Wells
2018
The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel af Daniel H. Wilson
2018
The Queen of Blood af Sarah Beth Durst
2017
The Regional Office is Under Attack! af Manuel Gonzales
2017
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided af Diane Guerrero
2017
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded af Hannah Hart
2017
Arena af Holly Jennings
2017
Every Heart a Doorway af Seanan McGuire
2017
Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure af Ryan North
2017
Die Young with Me: A Memoir af Rob Rufus
2017
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems af Matt Simon
2017
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko af Scott Stambach
2017
Half the World af Joe Abercrombie
2016
Between the World and Me af Ta-Nehisi Coates
2016
Bones & All: A Novel af Camille DeAngelis
2016
All Involved af Ryan Gattis
2016
Girl at War af Sara Novic
2016
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis af Keija Parssinen
2016
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League af Dan-el Padilla Peralta
2016
Humans of New York: Stories af Brandon Stanton
2016
Sacred Heart af Liz Suburbia
2016
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits af David Wong
2016
Wolf in White Van af John Darnielle
2015
Alt det lys vi ikke ser af Anthony Doerr
2015
The terrorist's son af Zak Ebrahim
2015
Those Who Wish Me Dead af Michael Koryta
2015
Bingo's Run: A Novel af James A. Levine
2015
Confessions af かなえ 湊
2015
Everything I Never Told You af Celeste Ng
2015
Bellweather Rhapsody af Kate Racculia
2015
Lock In af John Scalzi
2015
The Martian af Andy Weir
2015
Lexicon af Max Barry
2014
The Lives of Tao af Wesley Chu
2014
The Universe Versus Alex Woods af Gavin Extence
2014
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen af Lucy Knisley
2014
The Sea of Tranquility af Katja Millay
2014
The Death of Bees af Lisa O'Donnell
2014
Help for the Haunted af John Searles
2014
Brewster af Mark Slouka
2014
Golden Boy af Abigail Tarttelin
2014
Mother, Mother af Koren Zailckas
2014
My Friend Dahmer af Derf Backderf
2013
Pure af Julianna Baggott
2013
One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season af Chris Ballard
2013
Lad ulvene komme af Carol Rifka Brunt
2013
The Round House af Louise Erdrich
2013
Girlchild af Tupelo Hassman
2013
Richard Ross: Juvenile in Justice af Richard Ross
2013
Hvor blev du af Bernadette af Maria Semple
2013
Hr. Penumbras døgnåbne bogbutik af Robin Sloan
2013
Caring Is Creepy af David Zimmerman
2013
In Zanesville af Jo Ann Beard
2012
Ready Player One af Ernest Cline
2012
Big Girl Small af Rachel DeWoskin
2012
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens af Brooke Hauser
2012
The Lover's Dictionary af David Levithan
2012
The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel af Roland Merullo
2012
Nattens cirkus af Erin Morgenstern
2012
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures af Caroline Preston
2012
Salvage the Bones af Jesmyn Ward
2012
Robopocalypse af Daniel H. Wilson
2012
Høstens engle af Alden Bell
2011
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake af Aimee Bender
2011
The House of Tomorrow af Peter Bognanni
2011
Rum af Emma Donoghue
2011
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden af Helen Grant
2011
The Radleys af Matt Haig
2011
Eksperten af Steve Hamilton
2011
Girl in Translation af Jean Kwok
2011
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard af Liz Murray
2011
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To af DC Pierson
2011
Soulless af Gail Carriger
2010
Everything Matters! af Jr. Ron Currie
2010
The Good Soldiers af David Finkel
2010
The Magicians af Lev Grossman
2010
Drengen der tæmmede vinden af William Kamkwamba
2010
My Abandonment af Peter Rock
2010
The Bride's Farewell af Meg Rosoff
2010
Stitches: A Memoir af David Small
2010
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir af Diana Welch
2010
The Family Fang af Kevin Wilson
2010
Sharp Teeth af Toby Barlow
2009
Tyvenes by af David Benioff
2009
The Oxford Project af Peter Feldstein
2009
Den sidste sura af Zoe Ferraris
2009
Mudbound af Hillary Jordan
2009
Efter solnedgang : fortællinger af Stephen King
2009
Three Girls and Their Brother af Theresa Rebeck
2009
The Dragons of Babel af Michael Swanwick
2009
The Good Thief af Hannah Tinti
2009
Over and Under af Todd Tucker
2009
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier af Ishmael Beah
2008
Ulven fra stepperne af Conn Iggulden
2008
Mister Pip : roman af Lloyd Jones
2008
The God of Animals af Aryn Kyle
2008
Essex County, Volume 1: Tales from the Farm af Jeff Lemire
2008
Spellman arkiverne : (en slags) krimi af Lisa Lutz
2008
The Night Birds af Thomas Maltman
2008
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China af Matthew Polly
2008
Bad Monkeys af Matt Ruff
2008
The Book of Lost Things af John Connolly
2007
The Whistling Season af Ivan Doig
2007
Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska af Michael D'Orso
2007
Vand til elefanterne af Sara Gruen
2007
Color of the Sea af John Hamamura
2007
Floor of the Sky af Pamela Carter Joern
2007
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game af Michael Lewis
2007
Black Swan Green : roman af David Mitchell
2007
The World Made Straight af Ron Rash
2007
Vindens navn af Patrick Rothfuss
2007
Den trettende fortælling af Diane Setterfield
2007
Midnight at the Dragon Café af Judy Fong Bates
2006
Upstate af Kalisha Buckhanon
2006
Anansi Boys af Neil Gaiman
2006
As Simple As Snow af Gregory Galloway
2006
Never Let Me Go af Kazuo Ishiguro
2006
Gil's All Fright Diner af A. Lee Martinez
2006
The Necessary Beggar af Susan Palwick
2006
My Jim af Nancy Rawles
2006
Jesus Land: A Memoir af Julia Scheeres
2006
Glasslottet af Jeannette Walls
2006
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America af Steve Almond
2005
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer af Lynne Cox
2005
Donorboy af Brendan Halpin
2005
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II af Robert Kurson
2005
The Work of Wolves af Kent Meyers
2005
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship af Ann Patchett
2005
For min søsters skyld af Jodi Picoult
2005
Thinner Than Thou af Kit Reed
2005
Project X af Jim Shepard
2005
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants af Robert Sullivan
2005
Wonder When You'll Miss Me af Amanda Davis
2004
Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten : roman af Mark Haddon
2004
Drageløberen af Khaled Hosseini
2004
The Kite Runner [and] A Thousand Splendid Suns {boxed set} af Khaled Hosseini
2004
Den tidsrejsendes kvinde af Audrey Niffenegger
2004
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere af ZZ Packer
2004
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers af Mary Roach
2004
True Notebooks af Mark Salzman
2004
Persepolis af Marjane Satrapi
2004
Maisie Dobbs af Jacqueline Winspear
2004
Leave Myself Behind af Bart Yates
2004
One! Hundred! Demons! af Lynda Barry
2003
My Losing Season af Pat Conroy
2003
Seeing in the dark af Timothy Ferris
2003
The Eyre Affair af Jasper Fforde
2003
Crow Lake af Mary Lawson
2003
The Year of Ice af Brian Malloy
2003
When the Emperor Was Divine af Julie Otsuka
2003
The Dive from Clausen's Pier af Ann Packer
2003
The Fall of Rome af Martha Southgate
2003
10th Grade af Joe Weisberg
2003
Year of Wonders af Geraldine Brooks
2002
An American insurrection : the battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 af William Doyle
2002
Gabriel's Story af David Anthony Durham
2002
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America af Barbara Ehrenreich
2002
Peace Like a River af Leif Enger
2002
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife af Kobie Kruger
2002
Kit's Law af Donna Morrissey
2002
The Rover af Mel Odom
2002
Motherland af Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
2002
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self af Rebecca Walker
2002
Flags of Our Fathers af James Bradley
2001
The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associates Books) af Gillian Bradshaw
2001
Pige med perleørering af Tracy Chevalier
2001
Counting Coup af Larry Colton
2001
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood af June Jordan
2001
Daughter of the Forest af Juliet Marillier
2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex af Nathaniel Philbrick
2001
The Man Who Ate the 747 af Ben Sherwood
2001
Chang and Eng af Darin Strauss
2001
Diamond Dogs af Alan Watt
2001
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places af David Breashears
2000
Ender's Shadow af Orson Scott Card
2000
River, Cross My Heart af Breena Clarke
2000
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year af Esmé Raji Codell
2000
The Reappearance of Sam Webber af Jonathon Scott Fuqua
2000
Stjernestøv af Neil Gaiman
2000
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey af Linda Greenlaw
2000
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child af Elva Treviño Hart
2000
Plainsong af Kent Haruf
2000
Imani All Mine af Connie Rose Porter
2000
Shackletons sidste ekspedition af Caroline Alexander
1999
Getting In af James Finney Boylan
1999
Needles af Andie Dominick
1999
At All Costs af John Gilstrap
1999
Space af Jesse Lee Kercheval
1999
Last Days of Summer af Steve Kluger
1999
Antarktis af Kim Stanley Robinson
1999
When I Was Puerto Rican af Esmeralda Santiago
1999
Caucasia af Danzy Senna
1999
Legends I: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy af Robert Silverberg
1999
The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies af David Bodanis
1998
All Over but the Shoutin' af Rick Bragg
1998
Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America af Rebecca Carroll
1998
What Girls Learn af Karin Cook
1998
Snow in August af Pete Hamill
1998
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea af Sebastian Junger
1998
Op i det blå af Jon Krakauer
1998
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation af Velma Maia Thomas
1998
Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven af Dawn Turner Trice
1998
To Say Nothing of the Dog af Connie Willis
1998

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