Premi Alex

Els Premis Alex reconeixen deu llibres escrits per a públic adult que també poden tenen un atractiu especial per a joves entre dotze i divuit anys. Es van donar per primera vegada l'any 1998 i es van convertir en un premi oficial de la American Library Association (ALA) el 2002.^[1]

Premi Alex

Tipus	premi literari premi de literatura juvenil
Epònim	Margaret A. Edwards
Vigència	1998  -
Estat	Estats Units d'Amèrica
Conferit per	Associació Americana de Biblioteques

Essencialment, aquests premis són una llista de l'ALA, paral·lela a la selecció dels millors llibres juvenils, que s'atorguen amb periodicitat anual. Els títols guanyadors són seleccionats entre els que han sigut publicats l'any anterior. Des de l'any 2002, els premis Alex estan administrats per la Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), una divisió de l'ALA.^[2]

Reben el seu nom en honor a la bibliotecària nord-americana Margaret Alexander Edwards, també coneguda amb el sobrenom d'Alex.^[3]

Guanyadors

Dècada de 1990

Any	Autor	Títol	Traduït al català
1998[4]	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.
	Sebastian Junger	The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea.	El temporal perfecte: la història veritable d'una lluita de l'home contra el mar. Edicions 62, 1998. ISBN 8429744134.
	Jon Krakauer	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster.	La febre del cim: crònica d'una tragèdia a l'Everest. Empúries, 2001. ISBN 8475967868.
	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.
1999[5]	Caroline Alexander	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition.
	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: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy.
	Kim Stanley Robinson	Antarctica.
	Esmeralda Santiago	Almost a Woman.
	Danzy Senna	Caucasia.

Dècada de 2000

Any	Autor	Títol	Traduït al català
2000[6]	David Breashears	High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places.
	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Shadow.
	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.
	Linda Greenlaw	The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey.
	Elva Trevino Hart	Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child.
	Kent Haruf	Plainsong.	Plainsong. Columna, 2000. ISBN 8483009196.
	Connie Porter	Imani All Mine.
2001[7]	Darin Strauss	Chang and Eng: A Novel.	Chang & Eng. Edicions 62, 2001. ISBN 8429748652.
	Larry Colton	Counting Coup.
	Juliet Marillier	Daughter of the Forest.
	Alan Watt	Diamond Dogs.
	James Bradley i Ron Powers	Flags of Our Fathers.
	Tracy Chevalier	Girl with a Pearl Earring.	La noia de la perla. Suma de Lletres Catalana, 2002. ISBN 8495980258.
	Nathaniel Philbrick	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.	Dins el cor del mar: la tragèdia del balener Essex. Proa, 2015. ISBN 9788475885520.
	Ben Sherwood	The Man Who Ate the 747.
	Gillian Bradshaw	The Sand Reckoner.
	June Jordan	Soldier: A Poet's Childhood.
2002[8]	Geraldine Brooks	Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague.
	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.
	Leif Enger	Peace Like a River.
	Kobie Kruger	The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife.
	Donna Morrissey	Kit's Law.
	Mel Odom	The Rover.
	Vineeta Vijayaraghavan	Motherland.
	Rebecca Walker	Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.
2003[9]	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.
	Mary Lawson	Crow Lake.	A la vora del llac. Edicions 62, 2002. ISBN 842975170X.
	Brian Malloy	The Year of Ice.
	Julie Otsuka	When the Emperor was Divine.
	Ann Packer	The Dive from Clausen's Pier.
	Martha Southgate	The Fall of Rome.
	Joseph Weisberg	10th Grade.
2004[10]	Amanda Davis	Wonder When You'll Miss Me.
	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.	El curiós incident del gos a mitjanit. La Magrana, 2006. ISBN 9788482649672.
	Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner.	El caçador d'estels. Ara Llibres, 2008. ISBN 9788496767560.
	Audrey Niffenegger	The Time Traveler's Wife.
	ZZ Packer	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.
	Mary Roach	Stiff.
	Mark Salzman	True Noebooks.
	Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis.	Persèpolis. Norma, 2008. ISBN 9788498474565.
	Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs.
	Bart Yates	Leave Myself Behind.
2005[11]	Steve Almond	Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.
	Lynne Cox	Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer.
	Brendan Halpin	Donorboy.
	Robert Kurson	Shadow Divers.
	Kent Meyers	Work of Wolves.
	Ann Pratchett	Truth & Beauty: A Friendship.
	Jodi Picoult	My Sister's Keeper.
	Kit Reed	Thinner Than Thou.
	Jim Shepard	Project X.
	Robert Sullivan	Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.
2006[12]	Judy Fong Bates	Midnight at the Dragon Café.
	Kalisha Buckhanon	Upstate.
	Neil Gaiman	Anansi Boys.
	Gregory Galloway	As Simple As Snow.
	Kazuo Ishiguro	Never Let Me Go.	No em deixis mai. Empúries, 2006. ISBN 9788497871396.
	A. Lee Martinez	Gil's All Fright Diner.
	Susan Palwick	The Necessary Beggar.
	Nancy Rawles	My Jim.
	Julia Scheeres	Jesus Land: A Memoir.
	Jeannette Walls	The Glass Castle: A Memoir.	El castell de vidre. Ara Llibres, 2008. ISBN 9788492406326.
2007[13]	John Connolly	The Book of Lost Things.
	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.	Aigua per a elefants. Ara Llibres, 2007. ISBN 9788496767423.
	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.
	Ron Rash	The World Made Straight.
	Diane Setterfield	The Thirteenth Tale.	El conte número tretze. Empúries, 2007. ISBN 9788497872379.
2008[14]	Matthew Polly	American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China.
	Matt Ruff	Bad Monkeys.
	Jeff Lemire	Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm.
	Conn Iggulden	Genghis: Birth of an Empire.
	Aryn Kyle	The God of Animals.
	Ishmael Beah	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
	Lloyd Jones	Mister Pip.	El senyor Pip. La Magrana, 2008. ISBN 9788498672626.
	Patrick Rothfuss	The Name of the Wind.	El nom del vent. Rosa dels Vents, 2011. ISBN 9788401387760.
	Thomas Maltman	The Night Birds.
	Lisa Lutz	The Spellman Files.
2009[15]	David Benioff	City of Thieves.	Ciutat de lladres. Columna, 2008. ISBN 9788466409216.
	Michael Swanwick	The Dragons of Babel.
	Zoë Ferraris	Finding Nouf.
	Hannah Tinti	The Good Thief.	El bon lladre. Empúries, 2010. ISBN 9788497876179.
	Stephen King	Just After Sunset: Stories.
	Hillary Jordan	Mudbound.
	Todd Tucker	Over and Under.
	Stephen G. Bloom	The Oxford Project.
	Toby Barlow	Sharp Teeth.
	Theresa Rebeck	Three Girls and Their Brother.

Dècada de 2010

Any	Autor	Títol	Traduït al català
2010[16]	William Kamkwamba i Bryan Mealer	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope.
	Meg Rosoff	The Bride's Farewell.
	Ron Currie Jr.	Everything Matters!
	David Finkel	The Good Soldiers.
	Diana Welch i Liz Welch	The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir.
	Lev Grossman	The Magicians.
	Peter Rock	My Abandonment.
	Gail Carriger	Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel.
	David Small	Stitches: A Memoir.
	Kevin Wilson	Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.
2011[17]	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.
	Jean Kwok	Girl in Translation.
	Peter Bognanni	The House of Tomorrow.
	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist.
	Aimee Bender	The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.	La peculiar tristesa del pastís de llimona. Empúries, 2001. ISBN 9788497877336.
	Matt Haig	The Radleys.
	Alden Bell	The Reapers Are the Angels.
	Emma Donoghue	Room.	L'Habitació. Empúries, 2010. ISBN 9788497876773.
	Helen Grant	The Vanishing of Katharina Linden.
2012[18]	Rachel DeWoskin	Big Girl Small.
	Jo Ann Beard	In Zanesville.
	David Levithan	The Lover's Dictionary.	A d'amor. Ara Llibres, 2011. ISBN 9788492941605.
	Brooke Hauser	The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens.
	Erin Morgenstern	The Night Circus.	El circ de la nit. Columna, 2012. ISBN 9788466414579.
	Ernest Cline	Ready Player One.	Ready player one. Columna, 2016. ISBN 9788466420921.
	Daniel H. Wilson	Robopocalypse.
	Jesmyn Ward	Salvage the Bones.
	Caroline Preston	The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures.
	Roland Merullo	The Talk-Funny Girl.
2013[19]	David Zimmerman	Caring is Creepy.
	Tupelo Hassman	Girlchild.
	Richard Ross	Juvenile in Justice.
	Robin Sloan	Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.	La llibreria del senyor Penombra. Ara Llibres, 2013. ISBN 9788492941933.
	Derf Backderf	My Friend Dahmer.
	Chris Ballard	One Shot at Forever.
	Julianna Baggott	Pure.
	Louise Erdrich	The Round House.
	Carol Rifka Brunt	Tell The Wolves I'm Home.
	Maria Semple	Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
2014[20]	Mark Slouka	Brewster.
	Lisa O'Donnell	The Death of Bees.
	Abigail Tarttelin	Golden Boy.
	John Searles	Help for the Haunted.
	Max Barry	Lexicon: A Novel.
	Wesley Chu	Lives of Tao.
	Koren Zailckas	Mother, Mother.
	Lucy Knisley	Relish: My Life in the Kitchen.
	Katja Millay	The Sea of Tranquility.
	Gavin Extence	The Universe Versus Alex Woods.	L'Univers contra l'Alex Woods. RBA, 2013. ISBN 9788482646558.
2015[21]	Anthony Doerr	All the Light We Cannot See.
	Kate Racculia	Bellweather Rhapsody.
	James A. Levine	Bingo's Run.
	Kanae Minato	Confessions.
	Celeste NG	Everything I Never Told You.
	John Scalzi	Loock In.
	Andy Weir	The Martian.
	Zak Ebrahim	The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice.
	Michael Koryta	Those Who Wish Me Dead.
	John Darnielle	Wolf in White Van.
2016[22]	Ryan Gattis	All Involved.
	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Between the World and Me.	Entre el món i jo. Empúries, 2016. ISBN 9788416367719.
	Camille DeAngelis	Bones & All.
	David Wong	Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.
	Sara Nović	Girl at War.	Noia en guerra. Catedral, 2017. ISBN 9788416673384.
	Joe Abercrombie	Half the World.	Mig món. Rosa dels Vents, 2015. ISBN 9788415961871.
	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[23]	Sarah Beth Durst	The Queen of Blood.
	Manuel Gonzales	The Regional Office is Under Attack!
	Diane Guerrero i Michelle Burford	In the Country We Love: My Family Divided.
	Hannah Hart	Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded.
	Holly Jennings	Arena.
	Seanan McGuire	Every Heart a Doorway.
	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[24]	Martha Wells	All Systems Red.
	Daniel H. Wilson	The Clockwork Dynasty.
	Seanan McGuire	Down Among the Sticks and Bones.
	Eve Ewing	Electric Arches.
	Melissa Fleming	A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea.
	Joey Comeau	Malagash.
	Jeff Lemire	Roughneck.
	Jordan Harper	She Rides Shotgun.
	Tasha Kavanagh	Things We Have in Common.
	Kat Howard	An Unkindness of Magicians.
2019[25]	P. Djèlí Clark	The Black God's Drums.
	Meghan MacLean Weir	The Book of Essie.
	Madeline Miller	Circe.
	Tara Westover	Educated: A Memoir.	Una educació: memòries. Més Llibres, 2018. ISBN 9788417353049.
	Clemantine Wamariya i Elizabeth Weil	The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After.
	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.

Dècada de 2020

Any	Autor	Títol	Traduït al català
2020[26]	C. A. Fletcher	A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World.
	Temi Oh	Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
	Angie Cruz	Dominicana.
	Maia Kobabe	Gender Queer: A Memoir
	Tegan and Sara	High School.
	A. J. Dungo	In Waves.
	Seanan McGuire	Middlegame.
	Colson Whitehead	The Nickel Boys.	Els nois de la Nickel. Edicions del Periscopi, 2020. ISBN 9788417339463.
	Casey McQuiston	Red, White & Royal Blue.
	Lisa Lutz	The Swallows.
2021[27]	Rebecca Roanhorse	Black Sun.
	T. J. Klune	The House in the Cerulean Sea.
	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.
	Emily M. Danforth	Plain Bad Heroines.
	Tochi Onyebuchi	Riot Baby.
	Allie Brosh	Solutions and Other Problems.
	Quan Barry	We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel.
2022[28]	Ryka Aoki	Light from Uncommon Stars.
	Marianne Cronin	The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot.	Els cent anys de la Lenni i la Margot. Columna, 2021. ISBN 9788466427395.
	Genevieve Gornichec	The Witch's Heart.
	T. L. Huchu	The Library of the Dead.
	Will Leitch	How Lucky.
	Everina Maxwell	Winter's Orbit.
	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.
	Heather Walter	Malice.