The Alex Awards
The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18". The Alex Award for 2014 was just announced - those books are at the top, and get older as you descend the list. As always, books and authors available on Worlds Without End are linked here.
2014
- Mark Slouka - Brewster
- Lisa O’Donnell - The Death of Bees
- Abigail Tarttelin - Golden Boy
- John Searles - Help for the Haunted
- Max Barry - Lexicon: A Novel
- Wesley Chu - Lives of Tao
- Koren Zailckas - Mother, Mother
- Lucy Knisley - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
- Katja Millay - The Sea of Tranquility
- Gavin Extence - The Universe Versus Alex Woods
2013
- David Zimmerman - Caring is Creepy
- Tupelo Hassman - Girlchild
- Richard Ross - Juvenile in Justice
- Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- Derf Backderf - My Friend Dahmer
- Chris Ballard - One Shot at Forever
- Julianna Baggott - Pure
- Louise Erdrich - The Round House
- Carol Rifka Brunt - Tell the Wolves I'm Home
- Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
2012
2011
- DC Pierson - The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To
- Liz Murray - Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
- Jean Kwok - Girl in Translation
- Peter Bognanni - The House of Tomorrow
- Steve Hamilton - The Lock Artist
- Aimee Bender - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
- Matt Haig - The Radleys
- Alden Bell - The Reapers Are the Angels
- Emma Donoghue - Room
- Helen Grant - The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
2010
- William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
- Meg Rosoff - The Bride’s Farewell
- Ron Currie Jr. - Everything Matters!
- David Finkel - The Good Soldiers
- Diana Welch and Liz Welch - The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
- Lev Grossman - The Magicians
- Peter Rock - My Abandonment
- Gail Carriger - Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel
- David Small - Stitches: A Memoir
- Kevin Wilson - Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
2009
2008
- Matthew Polly - American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
- Matt Ruff - Bad Monkeys
- Jeff Lemire - Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm
- Conn Iggulden - Genghis: Birth of an Empire
- Aryn Kyle - The God of Animals
- Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip
- Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
- Thomas Maltman - The Night Birds
- Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files
2007
- John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things
- Ivan Doig - The Whistling Season
- Michael D'Orso - Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
- Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
- Pamela Carter Joern - Floor of the Sky
- John Hamamura - Color of the Sea
- Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
- David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
- Ron Rash - The World Made Straight
- Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale
2006
2005
- Steve Almond - Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
- Lynne Cox - Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
- Brendan Halpin - Donorboy
- Robert Kurson - Shadow Divers
- Kent Meyers - Work of Wolves
- Ann Patchett - Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
- Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
- Kit Reed - Thinner Than Thou
- Jim Shepard - Project X
- Robert Sullivan - Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
2004
- Amanda Davis - Wonder When You'll Miss Me
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
- Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
- ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Mary Roach - Stiff
- Mark Salzman - True Notebooks
- Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis
- Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs
- Bart Yates - Leave Myself Behind
2003
- Lynda Barry - One! Hundred! Demons!
- Pat Conroy - My Losing Season
- Timothy Ferris - Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
- Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
- Mary Lawson - Crow Lake
- Brian Malloy - The Year of Ice
- Julie Otsuka - When the Emperor was Divine
- Ann Packer - The Dive from Clausen's Pier
- Martha Southgate - The Fall of Rome
- Joseph Weisberg - 10th Grade
2002
- Geraldine Brooks - Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
- William Doyle - An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi
- David Anthony Durham - Gabriel's Story
- Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America
- Leif Enger - Peace Like a River
- Kobie Kruger - The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
- Donna Morrissey - Kit's Law
- Mel Odom - The Rover
- Vineeta Vijayaraghavan - Motherland
- Rebecca Walker - Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
2001
- Darin Strauss - Chang and Eng: A Novel
- Larry Colton - Counting Coup
- Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest
- Alan Watt - Diamond Dogs
- James Bradley and Ron Powers - Flags of Our Fathers
- Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Nathaniel Philbrick - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- Ben Sherwood - The Man Who Ate the 747
- Gillian Bradshaw - The Sand Reckoner
- June Jordan - Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
2000
- David Breashears - High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
- Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow
- Breena Clarke - River, Cross My Heart
- Esme Raji Codell - Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
- Jonathon Scott Fuqua - The Reappearance of Sam Webber
- Neil Gaiman - Stardust
- Linda Greenlaw - The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
- Elva Trevino Hart - Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
- Kent Haruf - Plainsong
- Connie Porter - Imani All Mine
1999
- Caroline Alexander - The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
- James Finney Boylan - Getting In
- Andie Dominick - Needles
- John Gilstrap - At All Costs
- Jesse Lee Kercheval - Space
- Steve Kluger - Last Days of Summer
- Robert Silverberg - Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Antarctica
- Esmeralda Santiago - Almost a Woman
- Danzy Senna - Caucasia
1998
- David Bodanis - The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies
- Rick Bragg - All Over but the Shoutin'
- Rebecca Carroll - Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
- Karin Cook - What Girls Learn
- Pete Hamill - Snow in August
- Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea
- Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- Velma Maia Thomas - Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation
- Dawn Turner Trice - Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
- Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
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