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ALA Alex Award
23 years tracked (1998–2020), 98 entries total.
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Middlegame
Seanan McGuire · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2019
Circe
Madeline Miller · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Educated
Tara Westover · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2018
All Systems Red
Martha Wells · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Seanan McGuire · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Clockwork Dynasty
Daniel H. Wilson · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2017
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Queen of Blood
Sarah Beth Durst · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2016
All Involved
Ryan Gattis · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Half the World
Joe Abercrombie · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Humans of New York: Stories
Brandon Stanton · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2015
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Bellweather Rhapsody
Kate Racculia · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Confessions
Kanae Minato · Young Adult Fiction
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Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Lock In
John Scalzi · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Martian
Andy Weir · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2014
Golden Boy
Abigail Tarttelin · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Lexicon
Max Barry · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Lives of Tao
Wesley Chu · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Gavin Extence · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2013
Girlchild
Tupelo Hassman · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Pure
Julianna Baggott · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Round House
Louise Erdrich · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2012
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Lover's Dictionary
David Levithan · Young Adult Fiction
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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2011
Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok · Young Adult Fiction
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Room
Emma Donoghue · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Lock Artist
Steve Hamilton · Young Adult Fiction
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender · Young Adult Fiction
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The Reapers are the Angels
Alden Bell · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2010
Everything Matters!
Ron Currie, Jr. · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Soulless
Gail Carriger · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Stitches
David Small · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Good Soldiers
David Finkel · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Magicians
Lev Grossman · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
Kevin Wilson · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2009
City of Thieves
David Benioff · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Finding Nouf
Zoë Ferraris · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Just After Sunset
Stephen King · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Mudbound
Hillary Jordan · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Dragons of Babel
Michael Swanwick · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Good Thief
Hannah Tinti · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2008
Bad Monkeys
Matt Ruff · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Mister Pip
Jones, Lloyd · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2007
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Blind Side
Michael Lewis · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield · Young Adult Fiction
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The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig · Young Adult Fiction
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The World Made Straight
Ron Rash · Young Adult Fiction
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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2006
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman · Young Adult Fiction
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · Young Adult Fiction
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The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2005
My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson · Young Adult Fiction
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Thinner Than Thou
Kit Reed · Young Adult Fiction
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Truth and Beauty
Ann Patchett · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2004
Leave Myself Behind
Bart Yates · Young Adult Fiction
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Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear · Young Adult Fiction
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · Young Adult Fiction
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · Young Adult Fiction
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger · Young Adult Fiction
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Wonder When You'll Miss Me
Amanda Davis · Young Adult Fiction
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2003
10th Grade
Joseph Weisberg · Young Adult Fiction
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Crow Lake
Mary Lawson · Young Adult Fiction
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One Hundred Demons
Lynda Barry · Young Adult Fiction
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer · Young Adult Fiction
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The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde · Young Adult Fiction
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The Year of Ice
Brian Malloy · Young Adult Fiction
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When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka · Young Adult Fiction
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2002
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger · Young Adult Fiction
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Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
2001
Chang and Eng
Darin Strauss · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Daughter of the Forest
Juliet Marillier · Young Adult Fiction
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Diamond Dogs
Alan Watt · Young Adult Fiction
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier · Young Adult Fiction
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2000
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Plainsong
Kent Haruf · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Stardust
Neil Gaiman · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
1999
Last Days of Summer
Steve Kluger · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
1998
All Over But the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Snow in August
Pete Hamill · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis · Young Adult Fiction
Winner
