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 by the Young Adult Library Services Association.
Winners
2025
- Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake
- Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined written by David F. Walker and illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson
- Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung
- Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
- How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
- I Feel Awful, Thanks written and illustrated by Lara Pickle
- I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett
- The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff
- Woman, Life, Freedom created by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijević
2024
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Chlorine by Jade Song
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters
- I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashaya J. Khabushani
- Maame by Jessica George
- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
- The Talk by Darrin Bell
- Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
2023
- Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
- Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez with art by Danica Brine and Hank Jones
- Daughters of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
- The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
- A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
- Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
- True Biz by Sara Nović
- Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
2022
- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
- Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever by Kareem Rosser
- How Lucky by Will Leitch
- The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
- Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- Lore Olympus vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe
- Malice by Heather Walter
- The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
- The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
2021
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice: Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O’Brady
- Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
- The Kids Are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthony
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
- Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
- We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry