Alex Awards
Many teenagers prefer to read books written for adults, which provides a challenge to many librarians who want to recommend something that is both appealing and appropriate. Recognizing this concern, the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association and the Booklist created the Alex Awards in 1997.
These awards honor the top ten adult books for young adults published during the award year. It is funded by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust, in honor of Margaret Edwards, a Baltimore librarian who was committed to using adult books with teenagers.
The award-winning books are adult fiction and non-fiction titles.
Winners
Year |
Title |
Author |
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 | |
| Stiff | 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 | |
| Seeing in the Dark | 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 |
Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
| An American Insurrection | William Doyle | |
| Gabriel's Story | David Anthony Durham | |
| Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | |
| The Wilderness Family | Kobie Kruger | |
| Kit's Law | Donna Morrissey | |
| The Rover | Mel Odom | |
| Motherland | Vineeta Vijayaraghavan | |
| Black, White, and Jewish | Rebecca Walker | |
2001 |
Chang and Eng | 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 | |
| The Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick | |
| The Man Who Ate the 747 | Ben Sherwood | |
| The Sand Reckoner | Gillian Bradshaw | |
| Soldier | June Jordan | |
2000 |
High Exposure | David Breashears |
| Ender's Shadow | Orson Scott Card | |
| River, Cross My Heart | Breena Clarke | |
| Educating Esme | Esme Raji Codell | |
| The Reappearance of Sam Webber | Jonathon Scott Fuqua | |
| Stardust | Neil Gaiman | |
| The Hungry Ocean | Linda Greenlaw | |
| Barefoot Heart | Elva Trevino Hart | |
| Plainsong | Kent Haruf | |
| Imani All Mine | Connie Porter | |
1999 |
The Endurance | 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 | |
| Legends | Robert Silverberg | |
| Antarctica | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Almost a Woman | Esmeralda Santiago | |
| Caucasia | Danzy Senna | |
1998 |
The Secret Family | David Bodanis |
| All Over But the Shoutin' | Rick Bragg | |
| Sugar in the Raw | Rebecca Carroll | |
| What Girls Learn | Karin Cook | |
| Snow in August | Pete Hamill | |
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer | |
| Lest We Forget | Velma Maia Thomas | |
| Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven | Dawn Turner Trice | |
| To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis |
