DENVER - The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected 10 adult books that will appeal to teen readers to receive the 2009 Alex Awards.

The 2009 Alex Award winners are:
“City of Thieves,” by David Benioff, published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group

“The Dragons of Babel,” by Michael Swanwick, a Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates

“Finding Nouf,” by Zoë Ferraris published by Houghton Mifflin Company

“The Good Thief,” by Hannah Tinti, published by Dial Press, a division of Random House

“Just After Sunset: Stories,” by Stephen King, published by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster

“Mudbound,” by Hillary Jordan, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“Over and Under,” by Todd Tucker, published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press

“The Oxford Project,” by Stephen G. Bloom, photographed by Peter Feldstein, published by Welcome Books

“Sharp Teeth,” by Toby Barlow, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins

“Three Girls and Their Brother,” by Theresa Rebeck, published by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House