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FOR YOUNG ADULTS 1998-2003 |
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FOR YOUNG ADULTS 1998-2003 |
Funded by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust, the Alex Awards, which are announced annually in conjunction with National Library Week, honor the top 10 adult books for teenagers published during the previous year. Part of a five-year project cosponsored by Booklist and the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, the awards recognize the work of Margaret Edwards, a pioneer in library services for teens.
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2003
| Lynda Barry | One Hundred Demons |
| Pat Conroy | My Losing Season |
| Timothy Ferris | Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Soace and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril |
| Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair |
| Mary Lawson | Crow Lake |
| 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 |
2002
| Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague |
| Willliam 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 Odem | The Rover |
| Vineeta Vijayaraghavan | Motherland |
| Rebecca Walker | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self |
2001
| Darin Strauss | Chang and Eng |
| Larry Colton | Counting Coup |
| Juliet Marillier | Daughter of the Forest |
| Alan Watt | Diamond Dogs |
| James Bradley, Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers |
| Tracy Chevalier | The Girl with a Pearl Earing |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
| Ben Sherwood | The Man Who Ate the 747 |
| Gillian Bradshaw | The Sand Reckoner |
| June Jordan | Soldier: A Poet's Childhood |
2000
| Elva Trevino Hart | Barefoot Heart |
| Esme Raji Codell | Educating Esme |
| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow |
| David Breashears | High Exposure |
| Linda Greenlaw | The Hungry Ocean |
| Connie Porter | Imani All Mine |
| Kent Haruf | Plainsong |
| Jonathan Fugua | The Reappearance of Sam Webber |
| Breena Clark | River, Cross My Heart |
| Neil Gaiman | Stardust |
1999
| 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, ed | Legends: Stories By the Masters of Modern Fantasy |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica |
| Esmeralda Santiago | Almost a Woman |
| Danzy Senna | Caucasia |
1998
| 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 |
| Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster |
| 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 |
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