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Four SFF Books Win 2025 Alex Awards

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Four SFF Books Win 2025 Alex Awards

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Published on January 27, 2025

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This morning, the American Library Association announced the 2025 Youth Media Awards, which range from the Caldecott (for picture book illustration) to the Printz (for young adult fiction) to the Alex Awards, which recognize books written for adults that have special appeal to teens. There are often some SFF titles on the Alex list—last year’s winners included Starter Villain and Fourth Wing—and this year is no exception.

Among the ten titles on the list are P. Djèlí Clark’s The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Stephen Graham Jones’ I Was a Teenager Slasher, Rosie Hewlett’s The Witch of Colchis, and Henry H. Neff’s The Witchstone.

Interestingly, given the award-cycle dominance of Percival Everett’s James, another book on the Alex Awards list is a different retelling of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of Jim: Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined, a graphic novel by David F. Walker.

Here’s the full Alex Awards list:

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker
Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel by Kristen Perrin
I Feel Awful, Thanks by Lara Pickle
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett
The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff
Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi

Other notable winners this year include Molly Knox Ostertag, whose graphic novel The Deep Dark is a Printz Honor Book, and nd Tiffany D. Jackson, who won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author “for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” Also Paul Tremblay, Sarah Beth Durst, and Peng Shepherd all have books included on the Listen List of recommended audiobooks, which was announced separately.

You can find the full list of 2025 Youth Media Awards at School Library Journal. icon-paragraph-end

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