Alex Awards 2021

by American Library Association

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29 books

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. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.

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Winners

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse, 2020

The House in the Cerulean Sea

The Impossible First

From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone

Colin O'Brady, 2020

Kent State

Four Dead in Ohio

Derf Backderf, 2020

The Kids Are Gonna Ask

Gretchen Anthony, 2020

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones, 2020

Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth, 2020

Riot Baby

Tochi Onyebuchi, 2020

Solutions and Other Problems

Allie Brosh, 2020

We Ride Upon Sticks

Quan Barry, 2020

Nominees

Almond

Won-pyung Sohn, 2020

The Bone Shard Daughter

Andrea Stewart, 2020

The Book Collectors

A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

Delphine Minoui, 2020

The Bright Lands

John Fram, 2021

Catherine House

Elisabeth Thomas, 2021

The City We Became

N. K. Jemisin, 2020

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik, 2020

Devolution

A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Max Brooks, 2020

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré, 2021

The God Game

Danny Tobey, 2020

Highfire

Eoin Colfer, 2021

Invisible Differences

Julie Dachez, 2020

The Knockout Queen

Rufi Thorpe, 2021

The Last Stargazers

The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

Emily Levesque, 2020

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2020

One Life

Megan Rapinoe, Emma Brockes, 2020

The Resisters

Sigh, Gone

A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In

Phuc Tran, 2020

Unconquerable Sun

Kate Elliott, 2020