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Alex Award | |
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Description | adults books with "special appeal" for adolescents |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) a division of the American Library Association (ALA). |
First awarded | 1998 |
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 12 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 |
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2009[3] | David Benioff | City of Thieves |
2009[3] | Michael Swanwick | The Dragons of Babel |
2009[3] | Zoë Ferraris | Finding Nouf |
2009[3] | Hannah Tinti | The Good Thief |
2009[3] | Stephen King | Just After Sunset: Stories |
2009[3] | Hillary Jordan | Mudbound |
2009[3] | Todd Tucker | Over and Under |
2009[3] | Stephen G. Bloom | The Oxford Project |
2009[3] | Toby Barlow | Sharp Teeth |
2009[3] | Theresa Rebeck | Three Girls and Their Brother |
2008[4] | Matthew Polly | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China |
2008[4] | Matt Ruff | Bad Monkeys |
2008[4] | Jeff Lemire | Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm |
2008[4] | Conn Iggulden | Genghis: Birth of an Empire |
2008[4] | Aryn Kyle | The God of Animals |
2008[4] | Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
2008[4] | Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip |
2008[4] | Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind |
2008[4] | Thomas Maltman | The Night Birds |
2008[4] | Lisa Lutz | The Spellman Files |
2007[5] | John Connolly | The Book of Lost Things |
2007[5] | Ivan Doig | The Whistling Season |
2007[5] | Michael D'Orso | Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska |
2007[5] | Sara Gruen | Water for Elephants |
2007[5] | Pamela Carter Joern | Floor of the Sky |
2007[5] | John Hamamura | Color of the Sea |
2007[5] | Michael Lewis | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game |
2007[5] | David Mitchell | Black Swan Green |
2007[5] | Ron Rash | The World Made Straight |
2007[5] | Diane Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale |
2006[6] | Judy Fong Bates | Midnight at the Dragon Café |
2006[6] | Kalisha Buckhanon | Upstate |
2006[6] | Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys |
2006[6] | Gregory Galloway | As Simple As Snow |
2006[6] | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go |
2006[6] | A. Lee Martinez | Gil's All Fright Diner |
2006[6] | Susan Palwick | The Necessary Beggar]' |
2006[6] | Nancy Rawles | My Jim |
2006[6] | Julia Scheeres | Jesus Land: A Memoir |
2006[6] | Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle: A Memoir |
2005[7] | Steve Almond | Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America |
2005[7] | Lynn Cox | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer |
2005[7] | Brendan Halpin | Donorboy |
2005[7] | Robert Kurson | Shadow Divers |
2005[7] | Kent Meyers | Work of Wolves |
2005[7] | Ann Patchett | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship |
2005[7] | Jodi Picoult | My Sister's Keeper |
2005[7] | Kit Reed | Thinner Than Thou |
2005[7] | Jim Shepard | Project X |
2005[7] | Robert Sullivan | Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants]] |
2004[8] | Amanda Davis | Wonder When You'll Miss Me |
2004[8] | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
2004[8] | Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner |
2004[8] | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife |
2004[8] | Z. Z. Packer | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere |
2004[8] | Mary Roach | Stiff |
2004[8] | Mark Salzman | True Notebooks |
2004[8] | Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis |
2004[8] | Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs |
2004[8] | Bart Yates | Leave Myself Behind |
2003[9] | Lynda Barry | One Hundred Demons |
2003[9] | Pat Conroy | My Losing Season |
2003[9] | Timothy Ferris | Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril |
2003[9] | Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair |
2003[9] | Mary Lawson | Crow Lake |
2003[9] | Brian Malloy | The Year of Ice |
2003[9] | Julie Otsuka | When the Emperor Was Divine |
2003[9] | Ann Packer | The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
2003[9] | Martha Southgate | The Fall of Rome |
2003[9] | Joseph Weisberg | 10th Grade |
2002[10] | Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague |
2002[10] | William Doyle | An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi]' |
2002[10] | David Anthony Durham | Gabriel's Story |
2002[10] | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America |
2002[10] | Leif Enger | Peace Like a River |
2002[10] | Kobie Kruger | The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife |
2002[10] | Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law |
2002[10] | Mel Odom | The Rover |
2002[10] | Vineeta Vijayaraghavan | Motherland |
2002[10] | Rebecca Walker | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self |
2001[11] | Darin Strauss | Chang and Eng: A Novel |
2001[11] | Larry Colton | Counting Coup |
2001[11] | Juliet Marillier | Daughter of the Forest |
2001[11] | Alan Watt | Diamond Dogs |
2001[11] | James Bradley and Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers |
2001[11] | Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
2001[11] | Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
2001[11] | Ben Sherwood | The Man Who Ate the 747 |
2001[11] | Gillian Bradshaw | The Sand Reckoner |
2001[11] | June Jordan | Soldier: A Poet's Childhood |
2000[12] | David Breashears | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places |
2000[12] | Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow |
2000[12] | Breena Clarke | River, Cross My Heart |
2000[12] | Esme Raji Codell | Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year |
2000[12] | Jonathon Scott Fuqua | The Reappearance of Sam Webber' |
2000[12] | Neil Gaiman | Stardust |
2000[12] | Linda Greenlaw | The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey |
2000[12] | Elva Trevino Hart | Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child |
2000[12] | Kent Haruf | Plainsong |
2000[12] | Connie Porter | Imani All Mine |
1999[13] | Caroline Alexander | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition |
1999[13] | James Finney Boylan | Getting In |
1999[13] | Andie Dominick | Needles |
1999[13] | John Gilstrap | At All Costs |
1999[13] | Jesse Lee Kercheval | Space |
1999[13] | Steve Kluger | Last Days of Summer |
1999[13] | Robert Silverberg | Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy |
1999[13] | Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica |
1999[13] | Esmeralda Santiago | Almost a Woman |
1999[13] | Danzy Senna | Caucasia |
1998[14] | David Bodanis | The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies |
1998[14] | Rick Bragg | All Over but the Shoutin' |
1998[14] | Rebecca Carroll | Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America |
1998[14] | Karin Cook | What Girls Learn |
1998[14] | Pete Hamill | Snow in August |
1998[14] | Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea |
1998[14] | Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster |
1998[14] | Velma Maia Thomas | Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation |
1998[14] | Dawn Turner Trice | Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven |
1998[14] | Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last |
References
- ^ "YALSA's Alex Awards". American Library Association. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ Carter, Betty. "Who Is Margaret Edwards and What Is This Award Being Given In Her Honor?". The ALAN Review (Spring 1992): 45–48. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2009 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2008 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2007 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2006 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2005 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2004 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2003 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2002 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2001 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "2000 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "1999 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "1998 Alex Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-05.