The American Library Association (ALA) has announced their 2026 literary award winners. Below you can find a selection of Penguin Random House titles that were among the winners.
Explore the collection of award winners and honorees here.
Alex Award Winner
The Favorites
The Girls Who Grew Big
Hole in the Sky
These Heathens
What Kind of Paradise
The White Python World Tour
View our collection of past and present Alex Award Winners here.
ALSC Children’s Literature Lecture Award
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner
Buffalo Dreamer
Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Adult Fiction Winner: Awake in the Floating City
Adult Fiction Honor: Indian Country
Adult Nonfiction Honor: Pieces You’ll Never Get Back
Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award Author
Under Neon Lights
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalists
American Spirits
White House Secrets
Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Best Series Award Winner
Witches of Brooklyn
Witches of Brooklyn: Curse and Reverse
Witches of Brooklyn: S’more Magic
Witches of Brooklyn: Spell of a Time
Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!
Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Best Series Award Honor
Apple Crush
Stepping Stones
Sugar Shack
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban
Children’s Literature Legacy Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner – Candace Fleming
Amelia Lost
Eleanor Roosevelt’s in My Garage!
Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
Murder Among Friends
Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Odyssey Award Winner Audiobook
Trans History
Odyssey Award Honor Audiobook
Soundtrack
Whale Eyes
Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor
A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation
Pura Belpré YA Author Award Winner
On the Wings of la Noche
Pura Belpré YA Author Honor
Rosa by Any Other Name
The Story of My Anger
Schneider Family Book Award Honor in Middle Grade Category
Octopus Moon
Schneider Family Book Award Medal in the YA Literature Category
Whale Eyes
Schneider Family Honor in the YA Literature Category
The Poetry of Car Mechanics
Stonewall Children’s Book Award Winner
Halfway to Somewhere
Stonewall YA Book Award Honor
Hick
Sydney Taylor Middle Grade Notable Book
Same Page
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Winner
Death in the Jungle
YALSA William C. Morris Award Finalist
First Love Language
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Finalist
A World Without Summer
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A Guardian and a Thief
ALA Notable Books Fiction
Small Ceremonies
The Dream Hotel
The Emperor of Gladness
The Lilac People
ALA Notable Books Nonfiction
America, América
Everything Is Tuberculosis
No More Tears
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Original Sins
Strangers in the Land
There Is No Place for Us
RUSA Reading List – Science Fiction Short List
Hole in the Sky
Sophie Brody Medal Winner
Fagin the Thief
Sophie Brody Medal Noteworthy Titles
A Fool’s Kabbalah
How to Share an Egg
My Childhood in Pieces
Remember Us to Life
Stonewall Book Awards Winner
Dead Girl Cameo
