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

The awards, named after the dedicated Baltimore

Baltimore

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 librarian, Margaret Alexander Edwards, who was known as "Alex", are sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist

Booklist

Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. It is geared toward libraries and booksellers and is available in print or online...

 magazine. 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

Young Adult Library Services Association

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 (YALSA) a division of the American Library Association

American Library Association

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 (ALA). Only one author, Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

, has made the list twice.

Alex recipients

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2009		City of Thieves
2009
2009		Finding Nouf
2009
2009		Just After Sunset: Stories Just After Sunset Just After Sunset is the fifth collection of short stories by Stephen King. It was released in hardcover by Scribner on November 11, 2008, and features a holographic dust jacket. On February 6, 2008, the author's official website revealed the title of the collection to be Just Past Sunset. About a...
2009		Mudbound
2009		Over and Under Over and Under Over and Under is the title of an album by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 2000 on the Trailer Records label, a brief departure from his normal Red House Records label....
2009
2009		Sharp Teeth Sharp Teeth Sharp Teeth is a 2008 free verse novel by American writer Toby Barlow. It won the 2009 Alex Award and is the Horror entry on the 2009 Best Adult Genre Fiction Reading List.-Characters:* Lark is the leader of one of the werewolf packs....
2009		Three Girls and Their Brother
2008		American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
2008		Bad Monkeys Bad Monkeys -Plot summary:The beginning of the book takes place in the mental disabilites wing of the Las Vegas Clark County Detention Center. A psychiatrist named Dr. Vale interviews Jane Charlotte, who is there for the murder of a man called Dixon...
2008		Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm
2008		Genghis: Birth of an Empire
2008
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2008		Mister Pip Mister Pip Mister Pip is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after a character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations....
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2007		Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
2007		Water for Elephants Water for Elephants Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen. Gruen originally wrote the novel as part of National Novel Writing Month.- Plot :...
2007		Floor of the Sky
2007		Color of the Sea
2007
2007		Black Swan Green Black Swan Green Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman written by David Mitchell. It was published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK. The novel's thirteen chapters each represent one month—from January 1982 through January 1983—in the life of 13-year-old Worcestershire boy Jason...
2007
2007
2006		Midnight at the Dragon Café
2006		Upstate
2006		Anansi Boys Anansi Boys Anansi Boys is a novel by Neil Gaiman, a spin-off of Gaiman's earlier novel American Gods. In Anansi Boys we discover that 'Mr. Nancy' has two sons, and the two sons in turn discover each other...
2006		As Simple As Snow As Simple as Snow As Simple As Snow is a mystery novel by Gregory Galloway. It tells the story of a high-school aged narrator who meets a Gothic girl, Anna Cayne. Through postcards, a shortwave radio, various mix-CDs, and other erratic interests, Cayne eventually wins the heart of the narrator...
2006		Never Let Me Go
2006		Gil's All Fright Diner Gil's All Fright Diner Gil's All Fright Diner is an urban fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez first published in 2005.-Plot summary:In the backwoods southern town of Rockwood, a vampire and a werewolf in a run-down old truck come across Gil's All Night Diner, a 24-hour restaurant in the middle of nowhere...
2006
2006		My Jim
2006		Jesus Land: A Memoir
2006
2005		Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Candyfreak Candyfreak : A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America is a non-fiction book written by Steve Almond. It is about a trip that he took in which he searched for candy bars made by small companies. He traveled to factories across the country. It was widely reviewed...
2005		Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
2005		Donorboy
2005		Shadow Divers Shadow Divers Shadow Divers is a non-fictional recounting of the discovery of a World War II German U-Boat sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey, USA in 1991.-Overview:...
2005		Work of Wolves
2005		Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
2005		My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper is a 2004 novel written by New York Times Best Selling author Jodi Picoult. It tells the story of 13-year-old Anna, who litigates her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who is dying from leukemia.-Plot:The story takes...
2005		Thinner Than Thou
2005		Project X
2005		Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
2004		Wonder When You'll Miss Me
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2004		Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
2004		Stiff Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a 2003 non-fiction work by Mary Roach. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, it details the unique scientific contributions of the deceased...
2004		True Notebooks
2004		Persepolis
2004		Maisie Dobbs Maisie Dobbs Maisie Dobbs is a fictional character created by author Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie is a "psychologist and investigator" in post World War I London. A nurse during the war, Maisie returned to London to work with her mentor, accomplished detective Dr. Maurice Blanche...
2004		Leave Myself Behind Leave Myself Behind Leave Myself Behind is the 2004 debut novel by American writer Bart Yates. The plot centers around a seventeen-year-old gay boy, Noah York, and the process through which he goes as he discovers his sexuality and grows without his father. Critics have compared Leave Myself Behind to J.D. Salinger's...
2003		One Hundred Demons
2003		My Losing Season My Losing Season My Losing Season is a memoir by Pat Conroy. It primarily deals with his senior season as the starting point guard on the basketball team of The Citadel in 1966–67. Conroy describes his tumultuous relationship with his coach, Mel Thompson, as well as the harsh, malevolent, male-dominated society of...
2003		Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
2003
2003		Crow Lake Crow Lake (novel) Crow Lake is a 2002 first novel written by Canadian author Mary Lawson. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in the same year and won the McKitterick Prize in 2003...
2003
2003		When the Emperor was Divine When the Emperor was Divine When the Emperor was Divine is a 2003 novel written by American author Julie Otsuka about Japanese Americans sent to an internment camp in the Utah desert. It is Otsuka's first novel...
2003
2003
2003		10th Grade
2002		Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Year of Wonders Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book.-Plot introduction:...
2002
2002		Gabriel's Story Gabriel's Story Gabriel's Story is an award-winning 2001 novel by American author David Anthony Durham.- Publication details :*Written by David Anthony Durham*First published: Doubleday, United States, 2001.- Plot summary :...
2002		Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America Nickel and Dimed Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from the perspective of the undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the "working poor" in the United States...
2002		Peace Like a River Peace Like a River This article is about the novel by Leif Enger. For the song written by Paul Simon, see Paul Simon Peace Like a River is a best-selling novel by Leif Enger, who took the title from the lyrics of the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul", which was performed at his wedding...
2002
2002		Kit's Law
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2002		Motherland
2002		Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
2001		Chang and Eng: A Novel
2001		Counting Coup
2001		Daughter of the Forest Daughter of the Forest Daughter of the Forest is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier first published in 1999 It is loosely based on "The Six Swans" . A girl must sew six shirts from a painful nettle plant in order to save her brothers from a witch's enchantment, remaining completely mute until the task is...
2001		Diamond Dogs
2001		Flags of Our Fathers Flags of Our Fathers Flags of Our Fathers is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and...
2001		Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier. Set in 17th century Delft, Holland, the novel was inspired by Delft school painter Johannes Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model, and the painting...
2001		In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a National Book Award winning work of maritime history by Nathaniel Philbrick. It tells the story of the Whaleship Essex from the point of view of Thomas Nickerson who was a fourteen-year-old cabin boy on the Essex. The book is based...
2001
2001
2001		Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
2000		High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
2000		Ender's Shadow Ender's Shadow Ender's Shadow is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel. It was originally to be titled Urchin, but...
2000		River, Cross My Heart River, Cross My Heart River, Cross My Heart is a novel by Breena Clarke, and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection October 1999.-Plot introduction:The Potomac River claims the death of the daughter by drowning, and the family leaves their rural North Carolina world in search of a better life among friends and...
2000		Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
2000
2000		Stardust Stardust (novel) Stardust is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the...
2000
2000		Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
2000		Plainsong Plainsong (novel) Plainsong is a bestselling novel by Kent Haruf. Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, it tells the interlocking stories of some of the inhabitants....
2000		Imani All Mine
1999
1999		Getting In
1999		Needles
1999		At All Costs
1999		Space
1999		Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer is 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings....
1999		Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
1999		Antarctica Antarctica (novel) Antarctica is a novel written by Kim Stanley Robinson. It deals with a variety of characters living at or visiting an Antarctic research station...
1999		Almost a Woman
1999		Caucasia
1998
1998		All Over but the Shoutin
1998		Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
1998		What Girls Learn
1998		Snow in August
1998
1998		Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
1998		Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation
1898		Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
1998		To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last To Say Nothing of the Dog To Say Nothing of the Dog: How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It takes place in the same universe of time-traveling historians she explored in her story Fire Watch and novel Doomsday Book.To Say Nothing of the Dog won both the Hugo...