Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSidewalkMitchell DuneierPresents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's JourneyLeila AhmedAmazonAn Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President ClintonRichard A. PosnerAmazonBlack Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarMark BowdenAmazonChosen By God: A Brother's JourneyJoshua HammerAmazon

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThinking Fast and SlowDaniel KahnemanThe New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and ho...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistEl Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal InsurgencyIoan GrilloAmazonIs That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingAlex BellosAmazonPakistan: A Hard CountryAnatol LievenAmazonThe Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and FearSeth MnookinAmazon

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooThis brilliant work of reportage on the Mumbai slum called Annawadi, and the true-life stories of some of its inhabitants, is a powerful and unforgettable account of the impact of corruption, inequality, globalization and religion in an Indian megacity. It...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistNature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into BattlegroundsJim SterbaAmazonOn Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and FutureKaren Elliott HouseAmazonPrivate Empire: ExxonMobil and American PowerSteve CollAmazonThe Outpost: An Untold Story of American ValorJake TapperAmazon...

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerFive Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,Sheri FinkA Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor, reporter and author of War Hospital reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions without essential ...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDetroit: An American AutopsyCharlie LeDuffAmazonGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of BeliefLawrence WrightAmazonManifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His FreedomBarry SiegelAmazonThank You for Your ServiceDavid FinkelAmazon

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy LeagueJeff HobbsTraces 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....Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndAtul GawandeAmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them FreeHéctor TobarAmazonJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan StevensonAmazonThe Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the...

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global SecuritySarah ChayesWinner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. "I can’t imagine a more important book for our time." —Sebastian Junger The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-W...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBlue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American PolicingJoe DomanickAmazonChildren of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard LandSandy TolanAmazonDreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam QuinonesAmazonHow Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the CenturyStephen WittAmazon

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSecondhand Time: The Last of the SovietsSvetlana Alexievich (Author), Bela Shayevich (Translator)From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voi...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISISRobert F. WorthAmazonCity of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee CampBen RawlenceAmazonDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane MayerAmazonEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the Americ...

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerDemocracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for AmericaNancy MacLeanWinner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" “[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistLocking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaJames Forman Jr.AmazonThe End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in AmericaRick WartzmanAmazonThe Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American LifeLauren MarkhamAmazonWe Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyTa-Nehisi Co...

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerDisappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth CenturyO.B. Hardison, Jr.Offers a discursive account of modern man's progressive separation from nature and its impact on science and technology, art, music, history, and language...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDisturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel HuizdalaVaclav Havel, Paul WilsonAmazonMy Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His ConscienceRian MalanAmazonThe Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966Rick AtkinsonAmazonThe Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan AftermathKevin PhillipsAmazon