Here are the 2008 Alex Awards, ten adult books with specific teen appeal. The awards are sponsored by Booklist.
- American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, by Matthew Polly, published by Penguin/Gotham Books (ISBN13:978-1592402625)
- Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff, published by HarperCollins (ISBN13: 978-0061240416)
- Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm, by Jeff Lemire, published by Top Shelf Publications (ISBN13: 978-1891830884)
- Genghis: Birth of an Empire, by Conn Iggulden, published by Delacorte (ISBN13: 978-0385339513)
- The God of Animals, by Aryn Kyle, published by Scribner (ISBN13: 978-1416533245)
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Sarah Crichton Books (ISBN13: 978-0374105235)
- Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones, published by Random/Dial Press (ISBN13: 978-0385341066)
- The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss, published by DAW (ISBN13: 978-0756404079)
- The Night Birds, by Thomas Maltman, published by Soho (ISBN13: 978-1569474624)
- The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz, published by Simon & Schuster (ISBN13: 978-1416532392)
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