The Alex Awards

• The Book of Lost Things written by John Connolly
• The Whistling Season written by Ivan Doig
• Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska written by Michael D’Orso
• Water for Elephants written by Sara Gruen
• Color of the Sea written by John Hamamura
• The Floor of the Sky written by Pamela Carter Joern
• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game written by Michael Lewis
• Black Swan Green written by David Mitchell
• The World Made Straight written by Ron Rash
• The Thirteenth Tale written by Diane Setterfield