2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs

Traces a young man’s effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing….

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Héctor Tobar

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Matt Taibbi