Friday, May 3

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Lie TreeFrances HardingeRead this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel (6 starred reviews!!!) from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year, Costa Children's Book Award, and Horn Book-Boston Globe Award. Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, s...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBurn, Baby, BurnMeg MedinaAmazonMarch: Book ThreeJohn Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate PowellAmazonThe Head of the SaintSocorro Acioli/ Daniel Hahn (Translator)AmazonThe Passion of DolssaJulie BerryAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerHenry David Thoreau: A LifeLaura Dassow Walls“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAli: A LifeJonathan EigAmazonFasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience GrayAdam FedermanAmazonGrantRon ChernowAmazonRichard Nixon: The LifeJohn A. FarrellAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

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...
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerExit WestMohsin HamidAn extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at nig...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistGhachar GhocharVivek Shanbhag, Srinath Perur (translator)AmazonSing, Unburied, SingJesmyn WardAmazonThe Burning GirlClaire MessudAmazonThe ChangelingVictor LaValleAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSour Heart, LennyJenny ZhangWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017 'Relegate anything else you're reading – there is no other book to be seen with now' The Times 'Obscene...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGoodbye, VitaminRachel KhongAmazonHer Body and Other PartiesCarmen Maria MachadoAmazonMy Absolute DarlingGabriel TallentAmazonThe IdiotElif BatumanAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerPresentLeslie Stein...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistAnti-GoneConnor WillumsenAmazonEverything is FlammableGabrielle BellAmazonIcelandYuichi YokoyamaAmazonThe InterviewManuele Fior Translated by Jamie RichardsAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Death and Life of the Great LakesDan EganThe Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistHue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in VietnamMark BowdenAmazonLondon’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s CityStephen AlfordAmazonThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard RothsteinAmazonThe Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaFrances FitzGeraldAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerA Book of American MartyrsJoyce Carol OatesTwo families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences....Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistBluebird, BluebirdAttica LockeAmazonThe Late ShowMichael ConnellyAmazonThe Night OceanPaul La FargeAmazonWonder ValleyIvy PochodaAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerIncendiary Art: PoemsPatricia SmithThis phenomenal, visionary book addresses what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history now....Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDaylily Called it A Dangerous MomentAlessandra LynchAmazonFor the ScribeDavid WojahnAmazonIn the Language of my CaptorShane McCraeAmazonsemiautomaticEvie ShockleyAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBehave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. SapolskyWhy do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is ...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control EvolutionJennifer A. Doudna & Samuel H. SternbergAmazonLife 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceMax TegmarkAmazonMaking Sense of Science: Separating Substance from SpinCornelia DeanAmazonWhy We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dr...