Die Alex Awards sind ein Literaturpreis, der jährlich von der American Library Association (ALA) vergeben wird. Er zeichnet Bücher aus, die für Erwachsene geschrieben wurden und von besonderem Interesse für Jugendliche zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren sind. Seit 1998 werden die Alex Awards jedes Jahr für zehn Bücher verliehen, die im vorherigen Jahr erschienen sind.
Benannt ist der Preis nach der Bibliothekarin Margaret Alexander Edwards, genannt Alex, die eine Pionierin des Jugendbibliothekswesens in den USA war. Der Margaret A. Edwards Trust stiftet den Preis. Ein neunköpfiges Komitee wählt die Preisträger aus. Über die Website der ALA können Vorschläge eingereicht werden.
| Jahr | Geschrieben von | Im Original erschienen als | Auf Deutsch erschienen als |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Schnee im August | |
| Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm. A True Story of Men Against the Sea | The Perfect Storm | |
| Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster | In eisige Höhen | |
| 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 | Die Farben der Zeit | |
| 1999 | Caroline Alexander | The Endurance. Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | Die Endurance: Shackletons legendäre Expedition in die Antarktis |
| 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. Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy | Der 7. Schrein | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica | Antarktika | |
| Esmeralda Santiago | Almost a Woman | ||
| Danzy Senna | Caucasia | Schnee in Alabama | |
| Jahr | Geschrieben von | Im Original erschienen als | Auf Deutsch erschienen als |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | David Breashears | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places | Bis zum Äußersten. Der Mount Everest und andere Herausforderungen |
| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow | Enders Schatten | |
| Breena Clarke | River, Cross My Heart | ||
| Esmé Raji Codell | Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year | ||
| Jonathon Scott Fuqua | The Reappearance of Sam Webber | ||
| Neil Gaiman | Stardust | Sternwanderer | |
| Linda Greenlaw | The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey | Das hungrige Meer. Meine Abenteuer als Kapitänin eines Schwertfischfängers | |
| Elva Trevino Hart | Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child | ||
| Kent Haruf | Plainsong | Lied der Weite | |
| Connie Porter | Imani All Mine | ||
| 2001 | Darin Strauss | Chang and Eng | Chang und Eng. Die siamesischen Zwillinge |
| Larry Colton | Counting Coup | ||
| Juliet Marillier | Daughter of the Forest | Die Tochter der Wälder | |
| Alan Watt | Diamond Dogs | ||
| James Bradley und Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers | ||
| Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Im Herzen der See: Die letzte Fahrt des Walfängers Essex | |
| Ben Sherwood | The Man Who Ate the 747 | Der Mann, der eine Boeing aß | |
| Gillian Bradshaw | The Sand Reckoner | Säulen im Sand | |
| June Jordan | Soldier: A Poet's Childhood | ||
| 2002 | Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders. A Novel of the Plague | Das Pesttuch |
| 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 | Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft | |
| Leif Enger | Peace Like a River | Ein wahres Wunder | |
| Kobie Krüger | The Wilderness Family. At Home with Africa's Wildlife | Ich trage Afrika im Herzen. Unser Leben im Krüger Nationalpark | |
| Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law | ||
| Mel Odom | The Rover | Die Halblinge | |
| Vineeta Vijayaraghavan | Motherland | ||
| Rebecca Walker | Black, White, and Jewish. Autobiography of a Shifting Self | ||
| 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 | Der Fall Jane Eyre | |
| Mary Lawson | Crow Lake | Rückkehr nach Crow Lake | |
| Brian Malloy | The Year of Ice | ||
| Julie Otsuka | When the Emperor Was Divine | Als der Kaiser ein Gott war | |
| Ann Packer | The Dive from Clausen's Pier | Weil du zu mir gehörst | |
| Martha Southgate | The Fall of Rome | ||
| Joseph Weisberg | 10th Grade | ||
| 2004 | Amanda Davis | Wonder When You'll Miss Me | |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Supergute Tage oder Die sonderbare Welt des Christopher Boone | |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | Drachenläufer | |
| Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | Die Frau des Zeitreisenden | |
| ZZ Packer | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | ||
| Mary Roach | Stiff | Die fabelhafte Welt der Leichen | |
| Mark Salzman | True Notebooks | ||
| Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis | Persepolis | |
| Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | Maisie Dobbs – Das Haus zur letzten Ruhe | |
| Bart Yates | Leave Myself Behind | ||
| 2005 | Steve Almond | Candyfreak. A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America | |
| Lynne Cox | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer | Die Eismeerschwimmerin | |
| Brendan Halpin | Donorboy | ||
| Robert Kurson | Shadow Divers | Im Sog der Tiefe | |
| Kent Meyers | Work of Wolves | ||
| Ann Patchett | Truth & Beauty. A Friendship | ||
| Jodi Picoult | My Sister’s Keeper | Beim Leben meiner Schwester | |
| Kit Reed | Thinner Than Thou | Körperkult | |
| Jim Shepard | Project X | ||
| Robert Sullivan | Rats. Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants | ||
| 2006 | Judy Fong Bates | Midnight at the Dragon Café | |
| Kalisha Buckhanon | Upstate | ||
| Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys | Anansi Boys | |
| Gregory Galloway | As Simple as Snow | ||
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Alles, was wir geben mussten | |
| A. Lee Martinez | Gil’s All Fright Diner | Diner des Grauens. Wir servieren Armageddon mit Pommes Frites! | |
| Susan Palwick | The Necessary Beggar | ||
| Nancy Rawles | My Jim | ||
| Julia Scheeres | Jesus Land. A Memoir | ||
| Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle | Schloss aus Glas | |
| 2007 | John Connolly | The Book of Lost Things | Das Buch der verlorenen Dinge |
| 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 | Wasser für die Elefanten | |
| 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 | Der dreizehnte Monat | |
| Ron Rash | The World Made Straight | ||
| Diane Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale | Die dreizehnte Geschichte | |
| 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 | Bad Monkeys | |
| Jeff Lemire | Essex County. Volume 1. Tales from the Farm | ||
| Conn Iggulden | Genghis. Birth of an Empire | Dschingis Khan – Sohn der Wölfe | |
| Aryn Kyle | The God of Animals | Die Sehnsucht eines Sommers | |
| Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Rückkehr ins Leben. Ich war Kindersoldat | |
| Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | Mister Pip | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind | Der Name des Windes | |
| Thomas Maltman | The Night Birds | ||
| Lisa Lutz | The Spellman Files | Little Miss Undercover | |
| 2009 | David Benioff | City of Thieves | Stadt der Diebe |
| Michael Swanwick | The Dragons of Babel | ||
| Zoë Ferraris | Finding Nouf | Die letzte Sure | |
| Hannah Tinti | The Good Thief | ||
| Stephen King | Just After Sunset | Sunset | |
| Hillary Jordan | Mudbound | Mudbound: Die Tränen von Mississippi | |
| Todd Tucker | Over and Under | ||
| Stephen G. Bloom | The Oxford Project | ||
| Toby Barlow | Sharp Teeth | ||
| Theresa Rebeck | Three Girls and Their Brother | ||
| Jahr | Geschrieben von | Im Original erschienen als | Auf Deutsch erschienen als |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Der Junge, der den Wind einfing |
| Meg Rosoff | The Bride’s Farewell | Davon, frei zu sein | |
| Ron Currie Jr. | Everything Matters! | Letzten Endes | |
| David Finkel | The Good Soldiers | ||
| Diana Welch und Liz Welch | The Kids Are All Right. A Memoir | ||
| Lev Grossman | The Magicians | The Magicians | |
| Peter Rock | My Abandonment | Meine Wildnis | |
| Gail Carriger | Soulless | Glühende Dunkelheit | |
| David Small | Stitches | Stiche | |
| Kevin Wilson | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth | ||
| 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 | Als der Tag begann | |
| Jean Kwok | Girl in Translation | Goodbye Chinatown | |
| Peter Bognanni | The House of Tomorrow | ||
| Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist | Der Mann aus dem Safe | |
| Aimee Bender | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Die besondere Traurigkeit von Zitronenkuchen | |
| Matt Haig | The Radleys | Die Radleys | |
| Alden Bell | The Reapers Are the Angels | Nach dem Ende | |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | Raum | |
| Helen Grant | The Vanishing of Katharina Linden | Die Mädchen des Todes | |
| 2012 | Rachel DeWoskin | Big Girl Small | Kleine Frau, was nun? |
| Jo Ann Beard | In Zanesville | ||
| David Levithan | The Lover’s Dictionary | Das Wörterbuch der Liebenden | |
| Brooke Hauser | The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens | ||
| Erin Morgenstern | The Night Circus | Der Nachtzirkus | |
| Ernest Cline | Ready Player One | Ready Player One | |
| Daniel H. Wilson | Robopocalypse | Robocalypse | |
| Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones | Vor dem Sturm | |
| Caroline Preston | The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt. A Novel in Pictures | ||
| Roland Merullo | The Talk-Funny Girl | ||
| 2013 | David Zimmerman | Caring Is Creepy | |
| Tupelo Hassman | Girlchild | ||
| Richard Ross | Juvenile in Justice | ||
| Robin Sloan | Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore | Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra | |
| Derf Backderf | My Friend Dahmer | Mein Freund Dahmer | |
| Chris Ballard | One Shot at Forever | ||
| Julianna Baggott | Pure | Memento - Die Überlebenden | |
| Louise Erdrich | The Round House | Das Haus des Windes | |
| Carol Rifka Brunt | Tell the Wolves I’m Home | Sag den Wölfen, ich bin zu Hause | |
| Maria Semple | Where’d You Go, Bernadette? | Wo steckst du, Bernadette? | |
| 2014 | Mark Slouka | Brewster | |
| Lisa O'Donnell | The Death of Bees | Bienensterben | |
| Abigail Tarttelin | Golden Boy | ||
| John Searles | Help for the Haunted | ||
| Max Barry | Lexicon | Lexicon | |
| Wesley Chu | Lives of Tao | Die Leben des Tao | |
| Koren Zailckas | Mother, Mother | ||
| Lucy Knisley | Relish. My Life in the Kitchen | ||
| Katja Millay | The Sea of Tranquility | Irgendwann für immer | |
| Gavin Extence | The Universe Versus Alex Woods | Das unerhörte Leben des Alex Woods oder warum das Universum keinen Plan hat | |
| 2015 | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See | Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen |
| Kate Racculia | Bellweather Rhapsody | Willkommen im Bellweather Hotel | |
| James A. Levine | Bingo's Run | ||
| Kanae Minato | Confessions | Geständnisse | |
| Celeste Ng | Everything I Never Told You | Was ich euch nicht erzählte | |
| John Scalzi | Lock In | Das Syndrom | |
| Andy Weir | The Martian | Der Marsianer | |
| Zak Ebrahim | The Terrorist’s Son. A Story of Choice | ||
| Michael Koryta | Those Who Wish Me Dead | Die mir den Tod wünschen | |
| John Darnielle | Wolf in White Van | Wolf in White Van | |
| 2016 | Ryan Gattis | All Involved | In den Straßen die Wut |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me | Zwischen mir und der Welt | |
| Camille DeAngelis | Bones & All | ||
| David Wong | Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | ||
| Sara Nović | Girl at War | Das Echo der Bäume | |
| Joe Abercrombie | Half the World | Königsjäger | |
| Brandon Stanton | Humans of New York. Stories | ||
| Liz Suburbia | Sacred Heart | ||
| Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Undocumented. A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | ||
| Keija Parssinen | The Unraveling of Mercy Louis | ||
| 2017 | Sarah Beth Durst | The Queen of Blood | Die Blutkönigin |
| Manuel Gonzales | The Regional Office Is Under Attack! | ||
| Diane Guerrero und Michelle Burford | In the Country We Love. My Family Divided | ||
| Hannah Hart | Buffering. Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded | ||
| Holly Jennings | Arena | Arena | |
| Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway | Der Atem einer anderen Welt | |
| Ryan North | Romeo and/or Juliet. A Choosable-Path Adventure | ||
| Rob Rufus | Die Young with Me: A Memoir | ||
| Matt Simon | The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar | ||
| Scott Stambach | The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko | ||
| 2018 | Martha Wells | All Systems Red | Systemausfall |
| Daniel H. Wilson | The Clockwork Dynasty | Die Dynastie der Maschinen | |
| Seanan McGuire | Down Among the Sticks and Bones | Unter einem roten Mond | |
| Eve Ewing | Electric Arches | ||
| Melissa Fleming | A Hope More Powerful than the Sea | ||
| Joey Comeau | Malagash | Malagash | |
| Jeff Lemire | Roughneck | ||
| Jordan Harper | She Rides Shotgun | Die Rache der Polly McClusky | |
| Tasha Kavanagh | Things We Have in Common | ||
| Kat Howard | An Unkindness of Magicians | Schatten der Magie | |
| 2019 | P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God's Drums | |
| Meghan MacLean Weir | The Book of Essie | ||
| Madeline Miller | Circe | Ich bin Circe | |
| Tara Westover | Educated. A Memoir | Befreit. Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss | |
| Clemantine Wamariya und Elizabeth Weil | The Girl Who Smiled Beads. A Story of War and What Comes After | Das Mädchen, das Perlen lächelte | |
| Sam Graham-Felsen | Green | ||
| David Small | Home After Dark | ||
| N. K. Jemisin | How Long ’til Black Future Month? | ||
| Jonathan Evison | Lawn Boy | ||
| Naomi Novik | Spinning Silver | Das kalte Reich des Silbers | |
| Jahr | Geschrieben von | Im Original erschienen als | Auf Deutsch erschienen als |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | C. A. Fletcher | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World | Ein Junge, sein Hund und das Ende der Welt |
| Temi Oh | Do You Dream of Terra-Two? | ||
| Angie Cruz | Dominicana | ||
| Maia Kobabe | Gender Queer. A Memoir | Gender Queer: Eine nichtbinäre Autobiografie | |
| Tegan and Sara | High School | ||
| AJ Dungo | In Waves | ||
| Seanan McGuire | Middlegame | ||
| Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | Die Nickel Boys | |
| Casey McQuiston | Red, White & Royal Blue | Royal Blue | |
| Lisa Lutz | The Swallows | ||
| 2021 | Rebecca Roanhorse | Black Sun | |
| T. J. Klune | The House in the Cerulean Sea | Mr. Parnassus’ Heim für magisch Begabte | |
| Colin O’Brady | The Impossible First. From Fire to Ice – Crossing Antarctica Alone | ||
| Derf Backderf | Kent State. Four Dead in Ohio | ||
| Gretchen Anthony | The Kids Are Gonna Ask | ||
| Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | The Only Good Indians | |
| Emily M. Danforth | Plain Bad Heroines | ||
| Tochi Onyebuchi | Riot Baby | ||
| Allie Brosh | Solutions and Other Problems | ||
| Quan Barry | We Ride Upon Sticks | ||
| 2022 | Ryka Aoki | Light from Uncommon Stars | Das Licht ungewöhnlicher Sterne |
| Marianne Cronin | The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot | Die hundert Jahre von Lenni und Margot | |
| Genevieve Gornichec | The Witch’s Heart | The Witch's Heart – Das Verhängnis | |
| T. L. Huchu | The Library of the Dead | Die Bibliothek von Edinburgh | |
| Will Leitch | How Lucky | ||
| Everina Maxwell | Winter’s Orbit | Herz des Imperiums | |
| Kate Quinn | The Rose Code | ||
| Kareem Rosser | Crossing the Line. A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever | ||
| Rachel Smythe | Lore Olympus, Vol. 1 | Lore Olympus. Teil 1 | |
| Heather Walter | Malice | ||
| 2023 | Sophie Irwin | A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting | Wie man sich einen Lord angelt |
| R. F. Kuang | Babel, or the Necessity of Violence. An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution | Babel | |
| Jennette McCurdy | I’m Glad My Mom Died | I’m Glad My Mom Died. Meine Befreiung aus einer toxischen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung | |
| Jarrett Melendez und Danica Brine | Chef’s Kiss | Chef’s Kiss | |
| Sara Nović | True Biz | Klartext | |
| Jamila Rowser und Robyn Smith | Wash Day Diaries | ||
| John Scalzi | The Kaiju Preservation Society | Die Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung der Kaijū-Monster | |
| James Spooner | The High Desert. Black. Punk. Nowhere | ||
| Sue Lynn Tan | Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Die Tochter der Mondgöttin | |
| Javier Zamora | Solito. A Memoir | Solito. Eine wahre Geschichte | |
| 2024 | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain-Gang All-Stars | Chain-Gang All-Stars |
| Darrin Bell | The Talk | ||
| Jessica George | Maame | Maame | |
| Jessica Johns | Bad Cree | ||
| Khashayar J. Khabushani | I Will Greet the Sun Again | Kein Licht wie die Sonne | |
| Daniel Kraus | Whalefall | Whalefall – Im Wal gefangen | |
| Oksana Masters | The Hard Parts. A Memoir of Courage and Triumph | ||
| John Scalzi | Starter Villain | ||
| Jade Song | Chlorine | ||
| Rebecca Yarros | Fourth Wing | Fourth Wing – Flammengeküsst | |
| 2025 | Melissa Blake | Beautiful People. My Thirteen Truths About Disability | |
| David F. Walker und Marcus Kwame Anderson | Big Jim and the White Boy. An American Classic Reimagined | ||
| Eve J. Chung | Daughters of Shandong | ||
| P. Djèlí Clark | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | Die toten Katzen-Assassinen | |
| Kristen Perrin | How to Solve Your Own Murder | Das Mörderarchiv | |
| Lara Pickle | I Feel Awful, Thanks | ||
| Stephen Graham Jones | I Was a Teenage Slasher | ||
| Rosie Hewlett | The Witch of Colchis | Medea | |
| Henry H. Neff | The Witchstone | ||
| Marjane Satrapi | Woman, Life, Freedom | Frau, Leben, Freiheit | |
| 2026 | Layne Fargo | The Favorites | The Favourites |
| Bob, the Drag Queen | Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert | ||
| Peter Kuper | Insectopolis. A Natural History | ||
| Mia McKenzie | These Heathens | ||
| Travis Kennedy | The Whyte Python World Tour | ||
| Leila Mottley | The Girls Who Grew Big | Florida Babys | |
| Daniel H. Wilson | Hole in the Sky | ||
| Sonita Alizada | Sonita. My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom | ||
| Janelle Brown | What Kind of Paradise | ||
| Andy Anderegg | Plum | ||