Current and historical winners of the Michael Printz Award, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

Michael Printz Award

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Current and Previous Award Winners:

• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000

• 2024

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  The Collectors  by  A.S. King

• 2023

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  All My Rage  by  Sabaa Tahir

• 2022

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Starfish  by  Lisa Fipps

• 2021

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Everything Sad Is Untrue  by  Daniel Nayeri

• 2020

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Dig  by  A.S. King

• 2019

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  The Poet X  by  Elizabeth Acevedo

• 2018

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  We Are Okay  by  Nina LaCour

• 2017

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  March  by  John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

• 2016

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Bone Gap  by  Laura Ruby

• 2015

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  I'll Give You the Sun  by  Jandy Nelson

• 2014

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Midwinterblood  by  Marcus Sedgwick

• 2013

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  In Darkness  by  Nick Lake

• 2012

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Where Things Come Back  by  John Corey Whaley

• 2011

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, 1)  by  Paolo Bacigalupi

• 2010

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Going Bovine  by  Libba Bray

• 2009

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Jellicoe Road  by  Melina Marchetta

• 2008

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  The White Darkness  by  Geraldine McCaughrean

• 2007

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  American Born Chinese  by  Gene Luen Yang

• 2006

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Looking For Alaska  by  John Green

• 2005

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  How I Live Now  by  Meg Rosoff

• 2004

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  The First Part Last  by  Angela Johnson

• 2003

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Postcards from No Man's Land  by  Aidan Chambers

• 2002

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  A Step from Heaven  by  An Na

• 2001

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Kit's Wilderness  by  David Almond

• 2000

  
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Monster  by  Walter Dean Myers