Alex Award Winners

2009:

City of Thieves - David Benioff

The Dragons of Babel - Michael Swanwick

Finding Nouf - Zoe Ferraris

The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti

Just After Sunset: Stories - Stephen King

Mudbound - Hillary Jordan

Over and Under - Todd Tucker

The Oxford Project - Steven G. Bloom

Sharp Teeth - Toby Barlow

Three Girls and Their Brother - Theresa Rebeck

2008:

American Shaolin - Matthew Polly

Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff

Essex County Volume 1 - Jeff Lemire

Genghis, Birth of An Empire - Conn Iggulden

The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle

A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah

Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

The Night Birds - Thomas Maltman

The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz

2007:

The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly

The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig

Eagle Blue - Michael D’Orso

Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

Color of the Sea - John Hamamura

The Floor of the Sky - Pamela Carter Joern

The Blind Side - Michael Lewis

Black Swan Green - David Mitchell

The World Made Straight - Ron Rash

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

2006:

Midnight at the Dragon Cafe - Judy Fong Bates

Upstate - Kalisha Buckhanon

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

As Simple As Snow - Gregory Galloway

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Gil’s All Fright Diner - A. Lee Martinez

The Necessary Beggar - Susan Palwick

My Jim - Nancy Rawles

Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

2005:

Candyfreak -Steve Almond

Swimming to Anarctica - Lynn Cox

Donorboy - Brendan Halpin

Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson

Work of Wolves - Kent Meyers

Truth & Beauty - Ann Patchett

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Thinner Than Thou - Kit Reed

Project X - Jim Shepard

Rats - Robert Sullivan

2004:

Wonder When You’ll Miss Me - Amanda Davis

The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time - Mark Haddon

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - Z.Z. Packer

Stiff - Mary Roach

True Notebooks - Marc Salzman

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear

Leave Myself Behind - Bart Yates

2003:

One Hundred Demons - Lynda Barry

My Losing Season - Pat Conroy

Seeing in the Dark - Timothy Ferris

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Crow Lake - Mary Lawson

The Year of Ice - Brian Malloy

When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka

The Dive From Clausen’s Pier - Ann Packer

The Fall of Rome - Martha Southgate

10th Grade - Joseph Weisburg

2002:

Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks

An American Insurrection - William Doyle

Gabriel’s Story - David Anthony Durham

Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich

Peace Like a River - Leif Enger

The Wilderness Family - Kobie Kruger

Kit’s Law - Donna Morrisey

The Rover - Mel Odom

Motherland - Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

Black, White and Jewish - Rebecca Walker

2001:

Chang and Eng - Darin Strauss

Counting Coup - Larry Colton

Diamond Dogs - Alan Watt

Flags of Our Fathers - James Bradley

Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick

The Man Who Ate the 747 - Ben Sherwood

The Sand Reckoner - Gillian Bradshaw

Soldier - June Jordan

2000:

High Exposure - David Breashears

Ender’s Shadow - Orson Scott Card

River Cross My Heart - Breena Clark

Educating Esme - Esme Raji Codell

The Reappearance of Sam Webber - Jonathon Scott Fuqua

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

The Hungry Sea - Linda Greenlaw

Barefoot Heart - Elva Trevino Hart

Plainsong - Kent Haruf

Imani All Mine - Connie Porter

1999:

The Endurance - Caroline Andrews

Getting In - James Finney Boylan

Needles - Andie Dominick

At All Costs - John Gilstrap

Space - Jesse Lee Kercheval

Last Days of Summer - Steve Kluger

Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy - Various Authors

Antarctica - Kim Stanley Robinson

Almost A Woman - Esmeralda Santiago

Caucasia - Danzy Senna

1998:

The Secret Family - David Bodanis

All Over But the Shoutin’ - Rick Bragg

Sugar in the Raw - Rebecca Carroll

What Girls Learn - Karin Cook

Snow in August - Pete Hamill

The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

Lest We Forget - Velma Maia Thomas

Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven - Dawn Turner Trice

To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis

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