Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Nancy MacLean Amazon 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich (Author), Bela Shayevich (Translator) Amazon 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Sarah Chayes Amazon 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs Amazon 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Sheri Fink Amazon 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Amazon 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Amazon 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Amazon 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Zeitoun Dave Eggers Amazon 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency Barton Gellman Amazon 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point Elizabeth D. Samet Amazon 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Ian Buruma Amazon 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War Anthony Shadid Amazon 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War Evan Wright Amazon 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United States Ross Terrill Amazon 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex Judith Levine Amazon 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich Amazon 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War Frances FitzGerald Amazon 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Sidewalk Mitchell Duneier Amazon 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevitch Amazon 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Amazon 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War Peter Maass Amazon 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Gregory Howard Williams Amazon 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger Amazon 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority Peter Skerry Amazon 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama Amazon 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process E.J. Dionne Amazon 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century O.B. Hardison, Jr. Amazon 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Parting the Waters: Volume 1 of America in the King Years, 1954-1963 Taylor Branch Amazon 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country William Greider Amazon 1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design Richard Dawkins Amazon 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White Joseph Lelyveld Amazon 1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton Amazon 1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Cities and the Wealth of Nations Jane Jacobs Amazon 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Walker Percy Amazon 1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest The Fate of the Earth Jonathan Schell Amazon 1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number Jacobo Timerman, Toby Talbot Amazon 1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Without Fear Or Favor: The New York Times and Our Times Harrison Evans Salisbury Amazon