Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch, An Odyssey in the New China – Matthew Polly – Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long- 796.8155 POL Distance Swimmer – Lynn Cox – YA B COX My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult – F PIC Bad Monkeys – Matt Ruff – F RUF
Genghis: Birth of an Empire – Conn Iggulden – F IGG 2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier time – Mark Haddon – F HAD – Ishmael Beah – B BEA The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – F HOS Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones – F JON The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niff- The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss – F enegger – F NIF ROT Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Z.Z. Packer – F PAC 2007 True Notebooks – Mark Salzman – 808.042 SAL Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen – F GRU Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi – GRAPHIC The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game – Michael SAT Lewis – B OHE Maisie Dobbs – Jacqueline Winspear – F WIN The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield – F SET 2003
My Losing Season – Pat Conroy – B CON 2006 The Dive from Clausen’s Pier – Ann Packer – Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman – F GAI F PAC Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro – F ISH ALEX AWARD 2002 Gil’s All Fright Diner – A. Lee Martinez – F WINNERS MAR Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in My Jim – Nancy Rawles – F RAW Boom-time America – Barbara Ehrenreich – Plainsboro Public Library 305.569 The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannette Walls 609-275-2897 – B WAL Motherland – Vineeta Vijayaraghavan – F VIJ 9 Van Doren St.
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ALEX AWARD WINNERS ARE BOOKS WRITTEN FOR 2011 ADULTS THAT HAVE SPECIAL APPEAL FOR TEENS... Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok – F KWO The House of Tomorrow – Peter Bognan- Book Locations: Help for the Haunted – John Searles – F SEA “F” – Fiction, 1st floor ni – F BOG Lexicon – Max Barry – F BAR “GRAPHIC” – Graphic section, 1st floor The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A “AUDCD” – Audio book, 1st floor Mother, Mother – Koren Zailckas – F ZAI Novel – Aimee Bender – F BEN “B” – Biography, 2nd floor Relish – Lucy Knisley – GRAPHIC B KNI Room: A Novel – Emma Donoghue – F DON “NJ” – NJ section, 2nd floor Any book numbered with the Dewey Deci- 2013 mal system – Nonfiction, 2nd floor 2010 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Cre- Each year, ten books are given the Sloan – F SLO ating Currents of Electricity and Hope – Alex Award. Here, we have compiled My Friend Dahmer – Derf Backderf – William Kamkwamba – B KAM a list for each year of all the books the GRAPHIC DER The Good Soldiers – David Finkel – Plainsboro Public Library currently The Round House – Louise Erdrich – F ERD 956.7044 FIN owns. The Magicians – Lev Grossman – F GRO Where’d You Go, Bernadette? – Maria Semple – F SEM Stitches: A Memoir – David Small – 2015 GRAPHIC B SMA All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doeer – F DOE 2012 2009 Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys City of Thieves – David Benioff – F BEN – F NG at a High School for Immigrant Teens – Brooke Hauser – YA 373.18 HAU The Dragons of Babel – Michael The Martian – Andy Weir – F WEI The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern – F Swanwick – F SWA Those Who Wish Me Dead – Michael MOR Just After Sunset: Stories – Stephen King Koryta – F KOR – F KIN Ready Player One – Ernest Cline – AUDCD Mudbound – Hillary Jordan – F JOR Wolf in White Van – John Darnielle – F CLI DAR Three Girls and Their Brother – Theresa Robopocalypse: A Novel – Daniel H. Wilson – Rebeck – F REB F WIL 2014 Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward – F WAR 2008 Brewster – Mark Slouka – F SLO American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist