ALA Alex Award Winners

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The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 1...more

Winners

	In Zanesville: A Novel by Jo Ann Beard 3.55 avg rating — 1,359 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel by Roland Merullo 4.17 avg rating — 347 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 4.01 avg rating — 51,267 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	Big Girl Small: A Novel by Rachel DeWoskin 3.41 avg rating — 722 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 6,046 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Brooke Hauser 4.03 avg rating — 100 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 20,225 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 6,642 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 3.84 avg rating — 2,377 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 1,743 ratings ALA Alex Award (2012)	My rating:
	The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 778 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) 3.12 avg rating — 19,576 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell 3.96 avg rating — 2,091 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant 3.58 avg rating — 1,058 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	Room by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 112,357 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by D.C. Pierson 3.37 avg rating — 905 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Radleys by Matt Haig 3.46 avg rating — 2,812 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 2,300 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 9,894 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray 4.15 avg rating — 2,423 ratings ALA Alex Award (2011)	My rating:
	The Good Soldiers by David Finkel 4.25 avg rating — 1,681 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr. (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 2,245 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff 3.31 avg rating — 818 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1) by Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 19,417 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 1,332 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 31,745 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	Stitches by David Small 4.05 avg rating — 6,114 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson 4.05 avg rating — 619 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	My Abandonment by Peter Rock 3.58 avg rating — 1,404 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating:
	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 3,753 ratings ALA Alex Award (2010)	My rating: