Alex Award Winners

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 Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official American Library Association award in 2002.

2010 Winners

Soulless
by Gail Carriger
• Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
• My Abandonment by Peter Rock
• Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel, by Gail Carriger
• Stitches: A Memoir, by David Small
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
• The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch and Liz Welch with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

 

2009 Winners

Sharp Teeth
by Toby Barlow
• City of Thieves by David Benioff
• Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
• Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• Over and Under by Todd Tucker
• Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
• The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
• The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
• The Oxford Project by Stephen G. Bloom
• Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck

The complete list can be viewed at the Alex Awards website.