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

	The Topeka School by Ben Lerner 3.54 avg rating — 13,943 ratings Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2019)	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
	Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 24,292 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) 4.41 avg rating — 62,532 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) 4.10 avg rating — 20,615 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 3.94 avg rating — 196 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) 3.74 avg rating — 150,156 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 4.05 avg rating — 2,182 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 by Tillie Walden 4.26 avg rating — 10,898 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 4.14 avg rating — 5,461 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) 4.21 avg rating — 74,861 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 3.97 avg rating — 10,807 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 4.07 avg rating — 7,909 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 3.61 avg rating — 160 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 3.70 avg rating — 5,822 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 — 102 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 3.85 avg rating — 255 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 4.42 avg rating — 10,932 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 4.50 avg rating — 511 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 — 3,717 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 4.71 avg rating — 215 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 4.31 avg rating — 57,872 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 4.28 avg rating — 3,160 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 3.79 avg rating — 105,282 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 — 4,378 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 — 19,906 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 4.31 avg rating — 45 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 3.87 avg rating — 5,417 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 4.33 avg rating — 241 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 3.95 avg rating — 1,945 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 — 15,414 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