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About the Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are given each year to ten titles published for adults with special appeal for young adult readers (defined as 12-18 year-olds). Committee members change regularly, and awards are announced each year at the ALA Youth Media Awards ceremony in late January or early February.

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2019 Winners

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark* The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir Circe by Madeline Miller* Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover* The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil*

Green by Sam Graham-Felsen* Home After Dark by David Small How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin* Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison* Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik*

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2017 Winners

The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart Arena by Holly Jennings Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure by Ryan North Die Young with Me: A Memoir by Rob Rufus The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

2015 Winners

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Terrorist's Son by Zak Ebrahim ​Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle The Martian by Andy Weir Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia Bingo's Run by James A. Levine Lock In by John Scalzi ​Confessions by Kanae Minato ​All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

2013 Winners

Caring is Creepy by David Zimmerman Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman Juvenile In Justice by Richard Ross Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard Pure by Julianna Baggott The Round House by Louise Erdrich ​Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

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2018 Winners

All Systems Red by Martha Wells The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire* Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming

Malagash by Joey Comeau Roughneck by Jeff Lemire She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

* denotes a book in our collection

2016 Winners

All Involved by Ryan Gattis ​Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bones and All by Camille DeAngelis ​Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong Girl at War by Sara Nović Half the World by Joe Abercrombie Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta ​The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen

2014 Winners

Brewster by Mark Slouka The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin Help for the Haunted by John Searles Lexicon by Max Barry The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu Mother, Mother by KorenZailckas Relish by Lucy Knisley The Sea of Tranquility by KatjaMillay The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence

2012 Winners

Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan New Kids by Brooke Hauser The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo

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