2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

The winners were announced April 20, 2012...

Fiction:
Luminarium by Alex Shakar

Biography:
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell

Current Interest:
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

History:
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern Americaby Richard White

Mystery/Thriller:
11/22/1963: A Novel by Stephen King

Poetry:
Double Shadow by Carl Phillips

Science and Technology:
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar

Young Adult Literature:
The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman

The other shortlisted works were...

Fiction:
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor

Biography:
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir by Mark Whitaker
Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra Styron

Current Interest:
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear by Seth Mnookin

History:
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier Cercas
Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion: 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild

Mystery/Thriller:
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
Plugged by Eoin Colfer
Snowdrops by A. D. Miller
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

Poetry:
Devotions by Bruce Smith
Dawn Lundy Martin: Discipline by Dawn Lundy Martin
The Public Gardens: Poems and History by Linda Norton
Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison

Science and Technology:
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher by Joel Achenbach
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl

Young Adult Literature:
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Interesting list... and some surprising winners (I need to read most of them - I had read some of the shortlisted books and thought them to be pretty good...)

The 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2012

http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners & Finalists

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Biography
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Winner
Andrew Roberts / Napoleon: A Life

Runners up
Adam Begley, Updike
Robert M. Dowling, Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts
Kirstin Downey, Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Stephen Kotkin, Stalin Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928

Current Interest
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Winner Jeff Hobbs / The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Runners Up

Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Matt Taibbi, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Héctor Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

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Fiction
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Winner Siri Hustvedt / The Blazing World,

Runners Up

Donald Antrim, The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird,

HISTORY

Winner Adam Tooze/ The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

Runners up

Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
Mark Harris, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Mystery / Thriller
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Winner Tom Bouman / Dry Bones in the Valley

Runners Up
Peter Heller, The Painter
Laura Lippman, After I’m Gone
Shawn Lawrence Otto, Sins of Our Fathers
Peter Swanson, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart

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Poetry

Winner Claudia Rankine / Citizen: An American Lyric

Runners Up

Gillian Conoley, Peace
Katie Ford, Blood Lyrics: Poem
Peter Gizzi, In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011
Fred Moten, The Feel Trio

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners & Finalists (continued)

Science & Technology

Winner; Elizabeth Kolbert / The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Runners up

Michael Benson, Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time
Martin J. Blaser, MD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Christian Rudder, Dataclysm: Who We Are

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Winner Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney) / Faces in the Crowd

Runners up

Diane Cook, Man V. Nature: Stories
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
David James Poissant, The Heaven of Animals: Stories

Young Adult Literature

Winner Candace Fleming / The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia,

Runners up

Paul Fleischman, Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
E.K. Johnston, The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming,

Graphic Novel/Comics

Winner Jaime Hernandez / The Love Bunglers

Runners up

David B., Incidents in the Night: Volume 1
Ben Katchor, Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories
Anders Nilsen, The End
Joe Sacco, The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme,

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners & Finalists

Biography
Winner
Hayden Herrera / Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi

Runners Up
Terry Alford, Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Jonas Salk: A Life,
Patrick McGilligan, Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
John Norris, Mary McGrory The First Queen of Journalism

Current Interest
Winner
Sarah Chayes / Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

Runners Up
Joe Domanick, Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Sandy Tolan, Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Stephen Witt, How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Fiction
Winner
Valeria Luiselli, Translated by Christina MacSweeney / The Story of My Teeth

Runners Up
Anne Enright, The Green Road,
James Hannaham, Delicious Foods,
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles,
Helen Phillips, Beautiful Bureaucrat

Graphic Novel/Comics
Winner
Riad Sattouf / Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir

Runners Up
Sam Alden, New Construction: Two More Stories,
Julian Hanshaw, Tim Ginger, Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir,
Carol Tyler, Soldier's Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter's Memoir (You'll Never Know),

History
Winner
Dan Ephron / Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
Runners Up
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Liveright/W. W. Norton and Compan
Jonathan M. Bryant, Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope, Liveright
David Maraniss, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story , Simon & Schuster
Mark Molesky, This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason,

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners & Finalists (continued)

Mystery / Thriller

Winner
Don Winslow / The Cartel

Runners Up
Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Brian Panowich, Bull Mountain,
Richard Price, The Whites

Poetry
Winner
Jorie Graham / From the New World: Poems 1976-2014

Runners Up
Rick Barot, Chord, Sarabande Books
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus,
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, The Ruined Elegance,
Jean Valentine, Shirt in Heaven,

Science & Technology
Winner
Andrea Wulf / The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Runners Up
John Markoff, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, Ecco/
David J. Morris, The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Eamon Dolan
Beth Shapiro, How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
Jonathan Waldman, Rust: The Longest War,

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Winner
Chigozie Obioma / The Fishermen

Runners Up
Sarah Gerard, Binary Star,
Ben Metcalf, Against the Country,
Sara Novic, Girl at War,
Andrew Roe, The Miracle Girl,

Young Adult Literature
Winner
Marilyn Nelson / My Seneca Village

Runners Up
Don Brown, Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans,
Jason Reynolds, The Boy in the Black Suit
Laura Amy Schlitz, The Hired Girl,
Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War,

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced

2016 Book Prizes Winners

•Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Nathan Hill, The Nix
•Biography: Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
•Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: Wesley Lowery, They Can’t Kill Us All:Ferguson Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement

•Current Interest: Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
•Fiction: Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
•Graphic Novel/Comics: Nick Drnaso, Beverly
•History: Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe 1846-1873,
•Mystery/Thriller: Bill Beverly, Dodgers
•Poetry: Rosmarie Waldrop, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems,
•Science & Technology: Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
•Young Adult Literature: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

Finalists for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

FICTION

Mohsin Hamid, "Exit West"
Victor LaValle, "The Changeling"
Claire Messud, "The Burning Girl"
Vivek Shanbhag, "Ghachar Ghochar"
Jesmyn Ward, "Sing, Unburied, Sing"

CURRENT INTEREST

Ta-Nehisi Coates, "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy"
James Forman Jr., "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America"
Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"
Lauren Markham, "The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life"
Rick Wartzman, "The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America"

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

E. Lockhart, "Genuine Fraud"
Jason Reynolds, "Long Way Down"
Dashka Slater, "The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives"
Angie Thomas, "The Hate U Give"
Renee Watson, "Piecing Me Together"

POETRY

Alessandra Lynch, "Daylily Called it a Dangerous Moment"
Shane McCrae, "In the Language of My Captor"
Evie Shockley, "semiautomatic"
Patricia Smith, "Incendiary Art"
David Wojahn, "For the Scribe"

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Michael Connelly, "The Late Show"
Paul LaFarge, "The Night Ocean"
Attica Locke, "Bluebird, Bluebird"
Joyce Carol Oates, "A Book of American Martyrs"
Ivy Pochoda, "Wonder Valley"

BIOGRAPHY

Ron Chernow, "Grant"
Jonathan Eig, "Ali: A Life"
John A. Farrell, "Richard Nixon: The Life"
Adam Federman, "Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray"
Laura Dassow Walls, "Henry David Thoreau: A Life"

HISTORY

Stephen Alford, "London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City"
Mark Bowden, "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam"
Dan Egan, "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes"
Frances FitzGerald, "The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America"
Richard Rothstein, "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America"

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Cornelia Dean, "Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin"
Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg, "A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution"
Robert M. Sapolsky, "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
Max Tegmark, "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
Matthew Walker, "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams"

GRAPHIC NOVEL/COMICS

Gabrielle Bell, "Everything is Flammable"
Manuele Fior, translated by Jaime Richards, "The Interview"
Leslie Stein, "Present"
Connor Willumsen, "Anti-Gone"
Yuichi Yokoyama, "Iceland"

ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

Elif Batuman, "The Idiot"
Rachel Khong, "Goodbye, Vitamin"
Carmen Maria Machado, "Her Body and Other Parties"
Gabriel Tallent, "My Absolute Darling"
Jenny Zhang, "Sour Heart"

The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be announced in a ceremony at USC's Bovard Auditorium on April 20; tickets go on sale March 15. The ceremony takes place the day before the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicks off on the USC campus

Finalists for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

FICTION

Esi Edugyan, "Washington Black"
Abby Geni, "The Wildlands"
Tayari Jones, "An American Marriage"
Rebecca Makkai, "The Great Believers"
Michael Ondaatje, "Warlight"

CURRENT INTEREST

Francisco Cantú, "The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border"
John Carreyrou, "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup"
Michael Lewis, "The Fifth Risk"
Michelle Obama, "Becoming"
Susan Orlean, "The Library Book"

BIOGRAPHY

David W. Blight, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"
Seymour M. Hersh, "Reporter: A Memoir"
Victoria Johnson, "American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic"
Bob Spitz, "Reagan: An American Journey"
Tara Westover, "Educated: A Memoir"

Finalists for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

FICTION

Tash Aw, “We, the Survivors”

Madeline ffitch, “Stay and Fight”

Ben Lerner, “The Topeka School”

Maaza Mengiste, “The Shadow King”

Colson Whitehead, “The Nickel Boys”

CURRENT INTEREST

Mark Arax, “The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California”

Emily Bazelon, “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration”

Ronan Farrow, “ Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators”

Dina Nayeri, “The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You”

Rachel Louise Snyder, “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us”

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Laurie Halse Anderson, “Shout”

A.S. King, “Dig”

Thanhha Lai, “Butterfly Yellow”

Malla Nunn, “When the Ground is Hard”

Randy Ribay, “Patron Saints of Nothing”

POETRY

Reginald Dwayne Betts, “Felon”

Ilya Kaminsky, “Deaf Republic”

Sally Wen Mao, “Oculus”

Mary Ruefle, “Dunce”

Carmen Giménez Smith, “Be Recorder”

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Steph Cha, “Your House Will Pay”

Michael Connelly, “The Night Fire”

Jane Harper, “The Lost Man”

Laura Lippman, “Lady in the Lake”

Attica Locke, “Heaven, My Home”

Finalists for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

BIOGRAPHY

Leo Damrosch, “The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age“

George Packer, “Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century”

Victoria Riskin, “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir”

Yuval Taylor, “Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal”

Evan Thomas, “First: Sandra Day O’Connor”

HISTORY

Toby Green, “A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution”

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South”

Charles King, “Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century”

Sarah Milov, “The Cigarette: A Political History”

David Treuer, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present”

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Katherine Eban, “Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom”

Adam Higginbotham, “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster”

Caroline Criado Perez, “Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men”

Maria Popova, “Figuring”

Angela Saini, “Superior: The Return of Race Science”

GRAPHIC NOVEL/COMICS

Eleanor Davis, “The Hard Tomorrow”

Michael DeForge, “Leaving Richard’s Valley”

Jaime Hernández, “Is This How You See Me?”

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, “Grass”

Mariko Tamaki& Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, “Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me”

ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

María Gainza, trans. Thomas Bunstead, “Optic Nerve”

Lila Savage, “Say Say Say”

Namwali Serpell, “The Old Drift”

Sarah Elaine Smith, “Marilou is Everywhere”

De’Shawn Charles Winslow, “In West Mills”

L.A. Times Book Prizes Finalists and Winners for 2020

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction FINALISTS

These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel by Maisy Card
Little Gods by Meng Jin
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, WINNER
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A House is a Body: Stories by Shruti Swamy

Biography FINALISTS

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Eleanor by David Michaelis
The Dead are Arising by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder, WINNER

Current Interest FINALISTS

A Knock at Midnight: A story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of Incarceration by Christine Montross, M.D.
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, WINNER

Fiction FINALISTS

What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel by David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (Translator), WINNER
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Graphic Novel/Comics FINALISTS

Umma's Table by Yeon-sik Hong, Janet Hong (translator)
Blue Flag (vol. 1-4) by KAITO
Sports is Hell by Ben Passmore
Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som, WINNER
Come Home, Indio: A Memoir by Jim Terry

History FINALISTS

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice Baumgartner
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants by Adam Goodman
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones, WINNER
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State by David Vine

Mystery/Thriller FINALISTS

A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, WINNER
And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
These Women by Ivy Pochoda

Poetry FINALISTS

Obit by Victoria Chang, WINNER
Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts by Nikky Finney

Science & Technology FINALISTS

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager, WINNER
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson

The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction FINALISTS

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Lakewood: A Novel by Megan Giddings
The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy, 1) by N. K. Jemisin
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, WINNER
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (translator)

Young Adult Literature FINALISTS

The Black Flamingo byDean Atta
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Go with the Flow by Karen Schneemann & Lily Williams
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party by Allan Wolf
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Dr. Yusef Salaam, WINNER

L.A. Times Book Prizes Finalist 2021 and Winners

ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION FINALIST
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Recent East by Thomas Grattan
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Brood: A Novel by Jackie Polzin, Winner

BIOGRAPHY FINALIST
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster, Winner
Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait by Nick Davis
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch

CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller
Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos
Midnight In Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff, Winner

FICTION FINALIST
The Dangers of Smoking In Bed: Stories by Mariana Enriquez
American Estrangement: Stories by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo, Winner
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: A Novel by Claire Vaye Watkins
Harrow: A Novel by Joy Williams

GRAPHIC NOVEL/COMICS FINALIST
Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto
No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson, Winner
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

HISTORY FINALIST
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer, Winner
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts

MYSTERY/THRILLER FINALIST
The Turnout: A Novel by Megan Abbott, Winner
The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
Razorblade Tears: A Novel by S.A. Cosby
The Collective: A Novel by Alison Gaylin
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

POETRY FINALIST
Master Suffering by CM Burroughs
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
Floaters: Poems by Martín Espada
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Winner
Yellow Rain: Poems by Mai Der Vang

RAY BRADBURY PRIZE FINALIST
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Spirits Abroad: Stories by Zen Cho, Winner
The Dangers of Smoking In Bed: Stories by Mariana Enriquez
The World Gives Way: A Novel by Marissa Levien
Sorrowland: A Novel by Rivers Solomon

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FINALIST
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Winner
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE FINALIST
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia, Winner
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

>16 Pharmacdon: I don't want to be pedantic but numerous of your titles have the wrong touchstones. You cant just choose the first one that appears when you .

You have to edit on the right hand side the title (or author) chosen for you. eg Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe, was chosen instead of Assembly
by Natasha Brown.

and many more

>17 bergs47: Thank you for your pedanticism. I hopefully corrected them all.

2021 L.A. Times Book Award Winners

Art Seidenbaum Award
Brood: A Novel, Jackie Polzin

Biography
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane, Paul Auster

Current Interest
Midnight In Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could, Adam Schiff

Fiction
In the Company of Men, Véronique Tadjo

Graphic Novel/Comics
No One Else, R. Kikuo Johnson

History
Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer

Mystery/Thriller
The Turnout: A Novel, Megan Abbott

Poetry
frank: sonnets, Diane Seuss

Ray Bradbury Prize
Spirits Abroad: Stories, Zen Cho

Science & Technology
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Young Adult Literature
A Sitting in St. James, Rita Williams-Garcia