Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have eleven single-title categories: biography, curren ...more

Winners

	Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 8,821 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 24,545 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 11,232 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips 3.93 avg rating — 116 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 33,147 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People by Julia Boyd 4.10 avg rating — 1,088 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On A Sunbeam: A Webcomic by Tillie Walden 4.22 avg rating — 4,465 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires 4.15 avg rating — 2,985 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 22,248 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú 3.98 avg rating — 6,816 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 4.33 avg rating — 1,223 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered by Benjamin Taylor 3.60 avg rating — 143 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang 3.68 avg rating — 4,370 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iceland by Yuichi Yokoyama 3.55 avg rating — 65 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Present by Leslie Stein 3.92 avg rating — 211 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky 4.41 avg rating — 5,996 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 4.48 avg rating — 398 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates 3.87 avg rating — 3,049 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith 4.70 avg rating — 143 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 4.36 avg rating — 30,069 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean 4.26 avg rating — 2,182 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 3.80 avg rating — 84,366 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich 3.83 avg rating — 3,695 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge 3.86 avg rating — 16,780 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gap Gardening: Selected Poems by Rosmarie Waldrop 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dodgers by Bill Beverly (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 4,782 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley 4.34 avg rating — 149 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beverly by Nick Drnaso 3.94 avg rating — 1,417 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 13,292 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich 4.43 avg rating — 6,994 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars