Michael L. Printz Award: every winner 2000–2026, on audiobook
The Michael L. Printz Award is the most prestigious US award for excellence in young-adult literature, awarded annually by the Young Adult Library Services Association (a division of the American Library Association) since 2000. Young-adult fiction is one of the largest and fastest-growing audiobook categories, and most Printz winners are available as full audiobook productions.
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Every Michael L. Printz Award winner, 2000–2026
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories | Cynthia Leitich Smith |
| 2025 | Brownstone | Samuel Teer |
| 2024 | The Collectors: Stories | A. S. King |
| 2023 | All My Rage | Sabaa Tahir |
| 2022 | Firekeeper's Daughter | Angeline Boulley |
| 2021 | Everything Sad Is Untrue | Daniel Nayeri |
| 2020 | Dig | A. S. King |
| 2019 | The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo |
| 2018 | We Are Okay | Nina LaCour |
| 2017 | March: Book Three | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell |
| 2016 | Bone Gap | Laura Ruby |
| 2015 | I'll Give You the Sun | Jandy Nelson |
| 2014 | Midwinterblood | Marcus Sedgwick |
| 2013 | In Darkness | Nick Lake |
| 2012 | Where Things Come Back | John Corey Whaley |
| 2011 | Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2010 | Going Bovine | Libba Bray |
| 2009 | On the Jellicoe Road | Melina Marchetta |
| 2008 | The White Darkness | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| 2007 | American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang |
| 2006 | Looking for Alaska | John Green |
| 2005 | How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff |
| 2004 | The First Part Last | Angela Johnson |
| 2003 | Postcards from No Man's Land | Aidan Chambers |
| 2002 | A Step From Heaven | An Na |
| 2001 | Kit's Wilderness | David Almond |
| 2000 | Monster | Walter Dean Myers |
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