The Alex Awards are granted by the American Library Association to books written for adults that also appeal to young adults ages 12 to 18.

     These books can be found in the adult fiction and non-fiction sections of the library, in order by call number.

Adult Non-Fiction

Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America. 338.4 ALMON

Flags of Our Fathers. 923.5 BRADL
(about the young men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima during World War II.)

The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey. 639.2778 GREEN
(about the woman captain who was friends with the captain of the fishing boat that sank during The Perfect Storm)

In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. 910.9164 PHILB
(about the ship sunk by a whale that inspired Moby Dick)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in Boom-Time America. 305.569 EHREN
(what it’s like to live on minimum wage)

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. 910.452 JUNGE
(about the fishing boat that sank in 1991)

Rats : observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants. 599.352 SULLI

The Secret Family: 24 Hours Inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies. 612 BODAN
(about a family’s day as seen on a microscopic level)

Shadow Divers : the True Adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II. 940.5451 KURSO

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. 796.522 KRAKA

True Notebooks. 808.042 SALZM
(the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders)

Biographies

All Over but the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg. BIO BRAGG BRA

Blind Side: The Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis. BIO OHER LEW

The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls. BIO WALLS WAL

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah. BIO BEAH BEA

My Losing Season, by Pat Conroy. BIO CONROY CON

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood, by June Jordan. BIO JORDAN JOR

Swimming to Antarctica tales of a long-distance swimmer, by Lynn Cox. BIO COX COX

Truth & beauty : a friendship, by Ann Patchett. BIO GREALY PAT

Graphic novels (Located in Young Adult (YA) Fiction)

Barry, Lynda. One Hundred Demons. YA FIC BARRY

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. YA FIC SATRA

Porter, Connie. Imani All Mine. YA FIC PORTE

Strauss, Darin.  Chang and Eng. YA FIC STRAU

Winspear, Jacqueline.  Maisie Dobbs. YA FIC WINSP

Adult Fiction

Bates, Judy Fong, Midnight at the Dragon Cafe. FIC BATES

Brooks, Geraldine. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague. FIC BROOK

Buckhanon, Kalisha, Upstate. FIC BUCKH

Card, Orson Scott.  Ender's Shadow. FIC CARD

Chevalier, Tracy. The Girl With A Pearl Earring. FIC CHEVA

Clarke, Breena. River, Cross My Heart. FIC CLARK

Connolly, John, The Book of Lost Things FIC CONNE

Doig, Ivan, The Whistling Season. FIC DOIG

Enger, Leif, Peace like a River. FIC ENGER

Gaiman, Neil, Anansi Boys. FIC GAIMA

Gilstrap, John, At All Costs. FIC GILST

Gruen, Sara, Water for Elephants FIC GRUEN

Haddon, Mark.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. FIC HADDO

Hamill, Pete, Snow in August. FIC HAMIL

Haruf, Kent, Plainsong. FIC HARUF

Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner. FIC HOSSE

Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go. FIC ISHIG

Lawson, Mary, Crow Lake. FIC LAWSO

Lutz, Lisa, The Spellman Files. FIC LUTZ

Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green: A Novel. FIC MITCH

Niffenegger, Audrey, The Time Traveler’s Wife. FIC NIFFE

Otsuka, Julie, When the Emperor Was Divine. FIC OTSUK

Packer, Ann, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier. FIC PACKE

Picoult, Jodi, My Sister's Keeper. FIC PICOU

Rothfuss, Patrick, The name of the wind : the kingkiller chronicle : day one. FIC ROTHF

Ruff, Matt, Bad Monkeys. FIC RUFF