Alex Award Books Available at Valley Library
2007
- The whistling season. Ivan Doig
- Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska. Michael D'Orso
2006
- Glass Castle: A Memoir. Jeannette Walls
2005
- Candyfreak: A journey through the chocolate underbelly of America. Almond, Steve
- Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a long-distance swimminer. Cox, Lynne
- Rats: Observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants. Sullivan, Robert
2004
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Packer, Z.Z.
- Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers. Roach, Mary
- True Notebooks. Salzman, Mark
- Persopolis. Satrapi, Marjane
2003
- One Hundred Demons. Barry, Linda
- My Losing Season. Conroy, Pat
- Crow Lake. Lawson, Mary
- The Year of Ice. Malloy, Brian
- When the Emperor Was Divine. Otsuka, Julie
- The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Packer, Ann
- The Fall of Rome. Southgate, Martha
2002
- An American Insurrection: the battle of Oxford, Mississippi. Doyle, William
- Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in boom-time America. Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Peace Like a River. Enger, Leif
- Black, White, and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self. Walker, Rebecca
2001
- Flags of Our Fathers. Bradley, James
- Counting Coup. Colton, Larry
- Soldier: a poet's childhood. Jordan, June
- In the Heart of the Sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex. Philbrick, Nathaniel
2000
- The Hungry Ocean: a swordboat captain's journey. Greenlaw, Linda
