The American Library Association picked 10 best 2011 adult books for teen readers. The Alex Awards were announced today along with the ALA's other awards.

· "Big Girl Small," by Rachel DeWoskin, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

· "In Zanesville," by Jo Ann Beard, published by Little, Brown & Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

· "The Lover's Dictionary," by David Levithan, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

· "The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens," by Brooke Hauser, published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

· "The Night Circus," by Erin Morgenstern, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

· "Ready Player One," by Ernest Cline, published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

· "Robopocalypse: A Novel," by Daniel H. Wilson, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

· "Salvage the Bones," by Jesmyn Ward, published by Bloomsbury USA

· "The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures," by Caroline Preston, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

· "The Talk-Funny Girl," by Roland Merullo, published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.