Michael L. Printz Award winners
The American Library Association's award for the year's best book written for young adults, given since 2000.
27 winners, 2000 to 2026, newest first.
- Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
2026Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal StoriesCynthia Leitich Smith - Brownstone
2025BrownstoneSamuel Teer - The Collectors: Stories2024The Collectors: StoriesA. S. King
- All My Rage
2023All My RageSabaa Tahir - Firekeeper's Daughter
2022Firekeeper's DaughterAngeline Boulley - Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story)
2021Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story)Daniel Nayeri - Dig
2020DigA. S. King - The Poet X
2019The Poet XElizabeth Acevedo - We Are Okay
2018We Are OkayNina LaCour - March: Book Three
2017March: Book ThreeJohn Lewis - Bone Gap
2016Bone GapLaura Ruby - I'll Give You the Sun
2015I'll Give You the SunJandy Nelson - Midwinterblood
2014MidwinterbloodMarcus Sedgwick - In Darkness
2013In DarknessNick Lake - Where Things Come Back
2012Where Things Come BackJohn Corey Whaley - Ship Breaker
2011Ship BreakerPaolo Bacigalupi - Going Bovine
2010Going BovineLibba Bray - Jellicoe Road
2009Jellicoe RoadMelina Marchetta - The White Darkness
2008The White DarknessGeraldine McCaughrean - American Born Chinese
2007American Born ChineseGene Luen Yang - Looking for Alaska
2006Looking for AlaskaJohn Green - How I Live Now
2005How I Live NowMeg Rosoff - The First Part Last
2004The First Part LastAngela Johnson - Postcards from No Man's Land
2003Postcards from No Man's LandAidan Chambers - A Step From Heaven
2002A Step From HeavenAn Na - Kit's Wilderness
2001Kit's WildernessDavid Almond - Monster
2000MonsterWalter Dean Myers
Winners from the prize's Wikipedia article.