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Award Winners: Alex Awards

Award winning fiction and nonfiction

About the Alex Awards

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.

2021 Winners

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Call Number: 920 BRO

ISBN: 9781982156947

Publication Date: 2020

2019 Winners

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
Call Number: F C594d BLA

ISBN: 9781250294715

Publication Date: 2018
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
Call Number: F W425m BOO

ISBN: 9780525436072

Publication Date: 2019
Educated by Tara Westover
Call Number: 920 WES

ISBN: 9780399590504

Publication Date: 2018
Green by Sam Graham-Felsen
Call Number: F G740s GRE

ISBN: 9780399591167

Publication Date: 2018
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
Call Number: F J52n HOW

ISBN: 9780316491372

Publication Date: 2019
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Call Number: F EV95j LAW

ISBN: 9781616209230

Publication Date: 2019

2016 Winners

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
Call Number: F W872d FUT

ISBN: 9781250040190

Publication Date: 2015
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
Call Number: F AB144j HAL Bk2

ISBN: 9780804178433

Publication Date: 2015
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
Call Number: 974.7 STA

ISBN: 9781250038821

Publication Date: 2013
Undocumented : a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Call Number: 920 PAD

ISBN: 9781518118173

Publication Date: 2015
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
Call Number: F P266k UNR

ISBN: 9780062319104

Publication Date: 2016

2020 Winners

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
Call Number: F F612c BOY

ISBN: 9780356510934

Publication Date: 2019
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
Call Number: F OH36t DO

ISBN: 9781534437401

Publication Date: 2019
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Call Number: F M4818s MID

ISBN: 9781250234209

Publication Date: 2020

2018 Winners

Down among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
Call Number: F M4818s WAY Bk2

ISBN: 9780765392039

Publication Date: 2017

2017 Winners

In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero; Michelle Burford
Call Number: 920 GUE

ISBN: 9781627795272

Publication Date: 2016
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Call Number: F M481s EVE

ISBN: 9780765385505

Publication Date: 2016
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
Call Number: 578.4 SIM

ISBN: 9780143128687

Publication Date: 2016
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
Call Number: 813.6 STA

ISBN: 9781250081865

Publication Date: 2016

2015 Winners

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: F D652a ALL

ISBN: 9781476746586

Publication Date: 2014
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Call Number: F N576c EVE

ISBN: 9780143127550

Publication Date: 2015
The Martian by Andy Weir
Call Number: F W425a MAR

ISBN: 9780553418026

Publication Date: 2014