Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerZeitounDave EggersIn August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded s...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistColumbineDave CullenAmazonHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women WorldwideNicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunnAmazonStrength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and ForgivenessTracy KidderAmazonThe Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health CareT.R. ReidAmazon

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWay Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFrances FitzGeraldWay Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prize­winning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ro...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDarkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the AmazonPatrick TierneyAmazonPitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban SportsS.L. PriceAmazonThe Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and WestIan BurumaAmazonThe Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human...

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaBarbara EhrenreichOur sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join the...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistStates of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and SufferingStanley CohenAmazonThe Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least ValuedAnn CrittendenAmazonThe Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme CourtJohn W. DeanAmazonTom and Huck Don't Live Here AnymoreRon PowersAma...

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerHarmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from SexJudith LevineExplores the highly sensitive issue of children and sex, offers advice on separating harmful from safe information about sex, and offers parents a guide to presenting the topic to their children....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSamantha PowerAmazonSeeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary PerilTimothy FerrisAmazonThe New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of InterventionNicolaus Mills, Kira BrunnerAmazonWealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American RichKevin PhillipsAmazon

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United StatesRoss TerrillA new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. The Chinese dynastic state’s blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine, paternalism, and obsession with unity has continued to shadow ‘revolutionary Chin...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistCut Time: An Education at the FightsCarlo RotellaAmazonJarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other BattlesAnthony SwoffordAmazonUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithJon KrakauerAmazonWhy America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11Gerald PosnerAmazon

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerGeneration Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American WarEvan WrightBased on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBlue BloodEdward ConlonAmazonBound to PleaseMichael DirdaAmazonThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of DarknessKaren ArmstrongAmazonTruth & Beauty: A FriendshipAnn PatchettAmazon

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerNight Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's WarAnthony ShadidAn Arab-American journalist looks at the Iraq War from the perspective of ordinary Iraqi citizens confronted by the dislocations, hardships, tragedies, and harsh realities of the conflict....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistConspiracy of Fools: A True StoryKurt EichenwaldAmazonCourtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal CourthouseSteve BogiraAmazonStill Looking: Essays on American ArtJohn UpdikeAmazonThe Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio MasterpieceJonathan HarrAmazon

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMurder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of ToleranceIan BurumaIt was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistImperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneRajiv ChandrasekaranAmazonStrange Piece of ParadiseTerri JentzAmazonThe Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s ParisAlicia DrakeAmazonThe Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastDouglas BrinkleyAmazon

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSoldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West PointElizabeth D. SametAt West Point, Elizabeth Samet reads classic and modern works of literature with America's future military elite, and in this stirring memoir she chronicles the ways in which war has transformed her relationship to the books she and her ......Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierIshmael BeahAmazonThe Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of VietnamTom BissellAmazonThe Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized AmericaRonald BrownsteinAmazonThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismNaomi KleinAmazon

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerAngler: The Cheney Vice PresidencyBarton GellmanEvaluates the ways in which Dick Cheney has redefined the role of the American vice presidency by assuming unprecedented responsibilities and wielding history-making power....Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistMy Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyJill Bolte TaylorAmazonThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve CollAmazonThe Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American IdealsJane MayerAmazonThe Forever WarDexter FilkinsAmazon