Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes "currently have nine single-title categories: biography, current...more
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Finder, Vol. 09: Voice
by Carla Speed McNeil (Goodreads Author)   4.09 avg rating — 112 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel (2011)
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The Big Crunch
by Pete Hautman   3.54 avg rating — 616 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2011)
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 9,541 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2010)
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Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
by Maxine Kumin 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2010)
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
by Oren Harman 3.64 avg rating — 101 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology (2010)
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A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4)
by Megan Whalen Turner 4.05 avg rating — 3,749 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2010)
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand 4.47 avg rating — 60,343 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2010)
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
by Thomas Powers 3.90 avg rating — 136 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2010)
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Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One
by Adam Hines 4.25 avg rating — 160 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel (2010)
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis 4.17 avg rating — 14,903 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2010)
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The House of Tomorrow
by Peter Bognanni (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 778 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2010)
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 41,025 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2010)
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers 4.15 avg rating — 20,433 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2009)
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
by Linda Gordon 3.99 avg rating — 98 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2009)
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Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching
by Paula J. Giddings 4.07 avg rating — 57 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2008)
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Nation
by Terry Pratchett 4.01 avg rating — 9,409 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2008)
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A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles, #4)
by Philip Reeve 4.28 avg rating — 945 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007)
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Be Near Me
by Andrew O'Hagan 3.33 avg rating — 329 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2007)
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The Indian Bride
by Karin Fossum 3.73 avg rating — 986 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007)
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu 3.55 avg rating — 2,499 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007)
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Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore 4.06 avg rating — 726 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007)
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 2,382 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2007)
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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
by Elizabeth D. Samet 3.63 avg rating — 253 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007)
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I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter 3.76 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007)
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White Ghost Girls
by Alice Greenway 3.15 avg rating — 450 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2006)
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Tyrell
by Coe Booth (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 1,264 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2006)
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright 4.33 avg rating — 4,082 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2006)
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
by Neal Gabler 4.09 avg rating — 858 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2006)
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Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma 3.61 avg rating — 411 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2006)
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A Woman in Jerusalem
by A.B. Yehoshua 3.24 avg rating — 366 ratings
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2006)
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