Los Angeles Times Book Prize#Fiction
{{short description|American literary awards}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Los Angeles Times Book Prize}}
File:Dave Eggers by David Shankbone.jpg, double winner of the Book Prize in 2009]]
Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). In addition, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West.{{Cite web|url=https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes-about/|title=BookPrizes About - Festival of Books|access-date=2020-11-05|website=The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013204650/https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes-about/|archive-date=2020-10-13|url-status=live}} It is named in honor of Robert Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book critic from 1952 until his death in 1980 whose idea it was to establish the book prizes.
The Book Prize program was founded by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985. An award named for Seidenbaum was added a year after his death in 1990. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, and may be written originally in languages other than English. The author of each winning book and the Kirsch Award recipient receives a citation and $500. The prizes are presented the day before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Winners
= Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction =
{{Main|Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction}}
=Biography=
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography}}
= Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose =
The Los Angeles Times – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose has been awarded in partnership with the Christopher Isherwood Foundation since April 2017 (for 2016).{{cite web |title=The Christopher Isherwood Prize |url=http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/prizes.html |access-date=26 September 2021 |website=The Christopher Isherwood Foundation |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926112745/http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/prizes.html |url-status=dead }}
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| 2016
|{{sortname|Wesley|Lowery}} |"They Can't Kill Us All": Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement |
|---|
| 2017
|{{sortname|Benjamin|Taylor|Benjamin Taylor (author)}} |{{Sort|Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered|The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered}} |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Kiese|Laymon}} |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Emily|Bernard}} |Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Andrew|O'Hagan}} |Mayflies | |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Deborah|last=Levy}} |Real Estate: A Living Autobiography |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|first=Javier|last=Zamora}} |Solito: A Memoir. |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Claire|Dederer}} |Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Emily|Witt|Emily Witt}} |Health and Safety: A Breakdown |{{Cite news |last=Sanford |first=Karla Marie |date=2025-04-25 |title=At L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony, winners advocate for hope in the face of uncertainty|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-25/la-times-book-prize-winners-2025-politics-hope |access-date=2025-07-08 |journal=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=2025-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250604222146/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-25/la-times-book-prize-winners-2025-politics-hope |url-status=live }} |
=Current interest=
{{main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest}}
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| 1980
|{{sortname|Harrison|Salisbury}} |Without Fear or Favor | |
|---|
| 1981
|{{sortname|Jacobo|Timerman}} |Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number | |
| 1982
|{{sortname|Jonathan|Schell}} |{{Sort|Fate of the Earth|The Fate of the Earth}} | |
| 1983
|{{sortname|Walker|Percy}} | |
| 1984
|{{sortname|Jane|Jacobs}} |Cities and the Wealth of Nations | |
| 1985
|{{sortname|Robert N. |Bellah}}, {{sortname|Richard| Madsen|dab=sociologist}}, William M. Sullivan, {{sortname|Ann|Swidler}} and Steven M. Tipton |Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life |University of California Press | |
| 1986
|{{sortname|Joseph|Lelyveld}} |Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | |
| 1987
|{{sortname|Richard|Dawkins}} |{{Sort|Blind Watchmaker|The Blind Watchmaker}} | |
| 1988
|{{sortname|William|Greider}} |Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country | |
| 1989
|{{sortname|Taylor|Branch}} |Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 | |
| 1990
|{{sortname|O. B. |Hardison, Jr. }} |Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century | |
| 1991
|{{sortname|E. J. |Dionne, Jr. }} |Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process | |
| 1992
|{{sortname|Francis|Fukuyama}} |{{Sort|End of History and the Last Man|The End of History and the Last Man}} | |
| 1993
|{{sortname|Peter|Skerry}} |Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|Henry|Kissinger}} | |
| 1995
|{{sortname|Gregory Howard|Williams}} |Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black | |
| 1996
|{{sortname|Peter|Maass}} |Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|Anne|Fadiman}} |{{Sort|Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down|The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures}} | |
| 1998
|{{sortname|Philip|Gourevitch}} |We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|Mitchell|Duneier}} with Ovie Carter (photographer) |Sidewalk | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|Frances|FitzGerald|Frances FitzGerald (journalist)}} |Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Barbara|Ehrenreich}} |Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America |
| 2002
|{{sortname|Judith|Levine}} |Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex |University of Minnesota Press | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Ross|Terrill}} |{{Sort|New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States|The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States}} |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Evan|Wright}} |Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Anthony|Shadid}} |Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War |
| 2006
|{{sortname|Ian|Buruma}} |Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Elizabeth D. |Samet}} |Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Barton|Gellman}} |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Dave|Eggers}} |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Michael|Lewis}} |{{Sort|Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine|The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine}} |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Daniel|Kahneman}} |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Katherine|Boo}} |Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Sheri|Fink}} |Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Jeff|Hobbs}} |{{Sort|Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace|The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Sarah|Chayes}} |Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Svetlana|Alexievich}} with Bela Shayevich (trans.) |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Nancy|MacLean}} |Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Francisco|Cantu}} |{{Sort|Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border|The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border}} |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Emily|Bazelon}} |Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Isabel|Wilkerson}} |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Adam|last=Schiff}} |Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|first=Dahlia|last=Lithwick}} |Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Roxanna|Asgarian}} |We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Jesse|Katz|Jesse Katz}} |The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant L.A. |{{Cite news |last=Sanford |first=Karla Marie |date=2025-04-25 |title=At L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony, winners advocate for hope in the face of uncertainty|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-25/la-times-book-prize-winners-2025-politics-hope |access-date=2025-07-08 |journal=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=2025-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250604222146/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-25/la-times-book-prize-winners-2025-politics-hope |url-status=live }} |
=Fiction=
{{main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction}}
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|+Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners ! scope="col" width="5%" | Year ! scope="col" width="20%" | Author ! scope="col" width="45%" | Title ! scope="col" width="25%" | Publisher ! scope="col" width="5%" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 1980
|{{sortname|Walker|Percy}} | |
|---|
| 1981
|{{sortname|D.M.|Thomas}} | |
| 1982
|{{sortname|Robert|Stone|Robert Stone (novelist)}} |A Flag for Sunrise | |
| 1983
|{{sortname|Thomas|Keneally}} | |
| 1984
|{{sortname|Milan|Kundera}} |The Unbearable Lightness of Being | |
| 1985
|{{sortname|Louise|Erdrich}} | |
| 1986
|{{sortname|Margaret|Atwood}} | |
| 1987
|{{sortname|James|Welch|James Welch (writer)}} | |
| 1988
|{{sortname|Gabriel García|Marquez}} | |
| 1989
|{{sortname|Fay|Weldon}} |The Heart of the Country | |
| 1990
|{{sortname|Edna|O'Brien}} | |
| 1991
|{{sortname|Allan|Gurganus}} | |
| 1992
|{{sortname|Art|Spiegelman}} |Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began | |
| 1993
|{{sortname|Barbara|Kingsolver}} | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|David|Malouf}} | |
| 1995
|{{sortname|William|Boyd|William Boyd (writer)}} | |
| 1996
|{{sortname|Rohinton|Mistry}} | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|James Carlos|Blake}} |In the Rogue Blood | |
| 1998
|{{sortname|W. G. |Sebald}} with Michael Hulse (trans.) | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|Amit|Chaudhuri}} |Freedom Song: Three Novels | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|David|Means}} |Assorted Fire Events | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Mary|Robison}} |Why Did I Ever |
| 2002
|{{sortname|Ian|McEwan}} | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Pete|Dexter}} |Train |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Colm|Tóibín}} | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Gabriel García|Márquez}} with Edith Grossman (trans.) |
| 2006
|{{sortname|A. B. |Yehoshua}} with Hillel Halkin (trans.) |A Woman in Jerusalem |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Andrew|O'Hagan}} |Be Near Me | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Marilynne|Robinson}} |Home |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Rafael|Yglesias}} |A Happy Marriage |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Egan}} |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Alex|Shakar}} |Luminarium |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Ben|Fountain}} |Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Ruth|Ozeki}} |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Siri|Hustvedt}} |{{Sort|Blazing World|The Blazing World}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Valeria|Luiselli}} | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Adam|Haslett}} |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Mohsin|Hamid}} |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Rebecca|Makkai}} |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Ben|Lerner}} |
| 2020
|{{sortname|David|Diop|David Diop (novelist)}} with Anna Moschovakis (trans.) |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Véronique|last=Tadjo}} |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|first=Mircea|last=Cărtărescu}} with Sean Cotter (trans.) |Solenoid |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Ed|Park}} |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|first=Jennine Capó|last=Crucet}} |Say Hello to My Little Friend |
=Graphic Novel/Comics=
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics}}
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|+Los Angeles Book Prize for Graphic Novel winners ! scope="col" width="5%" | Year ! scope="col" width="20%" | Author ! scope="col" width="45%" | Title ! scope="col" width="25%" | Publisher ! scope="col" width="5%" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 2009
|{{sortname|David|Mazzucchelli}} |
|---|
| 2010
|{{sortname|Adam|Hines}} |Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Carla Speed|McNeil}} |Finder: Voice |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Sammy|Harkham}} |Everything Together: Collected Stories |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Ulli|Lust}} |Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Jaime|Hernandez}} |{{Sort|Love Bunglers|The Love Bunglers}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Riad|Sattouf}} |Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984 | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Nick|Drnaso}} |Beverly |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Leslie|Stein|Leslie Stein (author)}} |Present |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Tillie|Walden}} |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Eleanor|Davis}} |{{Sort|Hard Tomorrow|The Hard Tomorrow}} |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Bishakh Kumar|Som}} |Apsara Engine | |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|last=Johnson|first=R. Kikuo}} |No One Else |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|Jamila|Rowser}} and Robyn Smith | |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Emily|Carroll}} |{{Sort|Guest in the House|A Guest in the House}} |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Taiyo|Matsumoto}} |Tokyo These Days (Vol. 1) |
=History=
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History}}
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|+Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History winners ! scope="col" width="5%" | Year ! scope="col" width="20%" | Author ! scope="col" width="45%" | Title ! scope="col" width="25%" | Publisher ! scope="col" width="5%" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 1980
|{{sortname|Ronald|Steel}} |Walter Lippmann and the American Century |Atlantic/Little, Brown and Co. | |
|---|
| 1981
|{{sortname|Ray Allen|Billington}} |Land of Savagery/Land of Promise | |
| 1982
|{{sortname|Jonathan D. |Spence}} |The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980 | |
| 1983
|{{sortname|Fernand|Braudel}} |The Wheels of Commerce | |
| 1984
|{{sortname|Robert|Darnton}} |The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History | |
| 1985
|{{sortname|Evan S. |Connell}} |Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn | |
| 1986
|{{sortname|Geoffrey|Hosking}} |The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within | |
| 1987
|{{sortname|Robert Jay|Lifton}} |The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide |
| 1988
|{{sortname|Eric|Foner}} |Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 | |
| 1989
|{{sortname|Neal|Gabler}} |An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood | |
| 1990
|{{sortname|Richard|Fletcher|Richard A. Fletcher}} |The Quest for El Cid | |
| 1991
|{{sortname|Nicholas|Lemann}} |The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | |
| 1992
|{{sortname|Alexander|Stille}} |Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism | |
| 1993
|{{sortname|Anthony|Grafton}} |New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|George|Chauncey}} |Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 | |
| 1995
|{{sortname|Jackson|Lears}} |Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America | |
| 1996
|{{sortname|Neal|Ascherson}} | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|Orlando|Figes}} |A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution | |
| 1998
|{{sortname|Roy|Porter}} |The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|John W. |Dower}} |Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|Alice|Kaplan}} |The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Rick|Perlstein}} |Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus |Hill and Wang Division/Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2002
|{{sortname|Michael B. |Oren}} |Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Henry|Wiencek}} |An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America | |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Geoffrey R. |Stone}} |Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Adam|Hochschild}} |Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves |
| 2006
|{{sortname|Lawrence|Wright}} |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Tim|Weiner}} |Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Mark|Mazower}} |Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Kevin|Starr}} |Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963 |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Thomas|Powers}} |The Killing of Crazy Horse |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Richard|White|Richard White (historian)}} |Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Fergus M. |Bordewich}} |America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Christopher|Clark|Chris Clark (historian)}} |The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Adam|Tooze}} |The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Dan|Ephron}} |Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Benjamin|Madley}} |An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Dan|Egan}} |The Death and Life of the Great Lakes |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Julia|Boyd|Julia Boyd}} |Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 |Pegasus Books |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Stephanie|Jones-Rogers}} |They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Martha S. |Jones}} |Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All |
| 2021
|{{sortname|Ada|Ferrer}} |
| 2022
|{{sortname|Margaret A.|Burnham}} |By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners |
| 2023
|{{sortname|Joya|Chatterji}} |Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century |
| 2024
|{{sortname|Andrea|Freeman}} |Rain Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, From the Trail of Tears to School Lunch |
=Mystery/thriller=
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller}}
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| 2000
|{{sortname|Val|McDermid}} | |
|---|
| 2001
|{{sortname|T. Jefferson|Parker}} |Silent Joe |
| 2002
|{{sortname|George P. |Pelecanos}} | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|George P. |Pelecanos}} | |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Kem|Nunn}} |Tijuana Straits | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Robert|Littell|Robert Littell (author)}} |Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation |
| 2006
|{{sortname|Michael|Connelly}} | |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Karin|Fossum}} with Charlotte Barslund (trans.) | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Michael|Koryta}} |Envy the Night |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Stuart|Neville}} |The Ghosts of Belfast |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Tom|Franklin|Tom Franklin (author)}} |Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Stephen|King}} |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Tana|French}} |
| 2013
|{{Sortname|Robert|Galbraith|J. K. Rowling}} (J. K. Rowling) |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Tom|Bouman}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Don|Winslow}} |The Cartel | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Bill|Beverly}} |Dodgers |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Joyce Carol|Oates}} |Ecco |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Oyinkan|Braithwaite}} |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Steph|Cha}} |Your House Will Pay |Ecco |
| 2020
|{{sortname|S. A. |Cosby}} |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Megan|last=Abbott}} |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|first=Alex|last=Segura}} |Secret Identity: A Novel |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Ivy|Pochoda}} |Sing Her Down |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Danielle|Trussoni}} |The Puzzle Box |
=Poetry=
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry}}
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| 1980
|{{sortname|Robert|Kelly|Robert Kelly (poet)}} |Kill the Messenger | |
|---|
| 1981
|{{sortname|Ntozake|Shange}} |Three Pieces | |
| 1982
|{{sortname|Allen|Ginsberg}} |Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977–1980 | |
| 1983
|{{sortname|James|Merrill}} |The Changing Light at Sandover | |
| 1984
|{{sortname|Charles|Olson}} |The Maximus Poems |University of California Press | |
| 1985
|{{sortname|X.J.|Kennedy}} |Cross Ties | |
| 1986
|{{sortname|Derek|Walcott}} |Collected Poems, 1948–1984 | |
| 1987
|{{sortname|William|Meredith|William Morris Meredith Jr.}} |Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems | |
| 1988
|{{sortname|Richard|Wilbur}} |New and Collected Poems | |
| 1989
|{{sortname|Donald|Hall}} |The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts |Ticknor & Fields/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 1990
|{{sortname|John|Caddy}} |The Color of Mesabi Bones | |
| 1991
|{{sortname|Philip|Levine|Philip Levine (poet)}} | |
| 1992
|{{sortname|Adrienne|Rich}} |An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 | |
| 1993
|{{sortname|Mark|Doty}} |My Alexandria | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|Carolyn|Forché}} |The Angel of History | |
| 1995
|{{sortname|Robert|Pinsky}} |The Inferno of Dante | |
| 1996
|{{sortname|Alan|Shapiro}} |Mixed Company |The University of Chicago Press | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|Charles|Wright|Charles Wright (poet)}} |Black Zodiac | |
| 1998
|{{sortname|Alice|Notley}} |Mysteries of Small Houses | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|C. K. |Williams}} |Repair: Poems | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|Gjertrud|Schnackenberg}} |The Throne of Labdacus | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Anne|Carson}} |
| 2002
|{{sortname|Cynthia|Zarin}} |The Watercourse: Poems | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Anthony|Hecht}} |Collected Later Poems | |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Richard|Howard}} |Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003 | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Jack|Gilbert}} |Refusing Heaven: Poems | scope="col" width="5%" |Alfred A. Knopf |
| 2006
|{{sortname|Frederick|Seidel}} |Ooga-Booga |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Stanley|Plumly}} |Old Heart: Poems | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Frank|Bidart}} |Watching the Spring Festival: Poems |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Brenda|Hillman}} |Practical Water |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Maxine|Kumin}} |Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010 |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Carl|Phillips}} |Double Shadow: Poems |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Louise|Glück}} |Poems 1962–2012 |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Ron|Padgett}} |Collected Poems |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Claudia|Rankine}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Jorie|Graham}} |From the New World: Poems 1976–2014 |Ecco/HarperCollins | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Rosmarie|Waldrop}} |Gap Gardening: Selected Poems |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Patricia|Smith|Patricia Smith (poet)}} |TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press |{{cite web |last1=Zahniser |first1=David |title=Los Angeles Times book prizes awarded to literary veterans, emerging authors |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lat-book-prizes-20180420-story.html |access-date=April 23, 2018 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=April 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422171300/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lat-book-prizes-20180420-story.html |url-status=live }} |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Carl|Phillips}} |Wild Is the Wind: Poems |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Ilya|Kaminsky}} |Deaf Republic: Poems |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Victoria|Chang}} |Obit |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|last=Seuss|first=Diane}} |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|last=Brand|first=Dionne}} |Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Airea D.|Matthews}} |Bread and Circus: Poems |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Remica|Bingham-Risher}} |Room Swept Home |
= Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction =
{{Main|Ray Bradbury Prize}}
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="width:100%"
|+The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction winners ! scope="col" width="5%" | Year ! scope="col" width="20%" | Author ! scope="col" width="45%" | Title ! scope="col" width="25%" | Publisher ! scope="col" width="5%" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 2019
|{{Sortname|Marlon|James|Marlon James (novelist)}} | |{{cite web |last=Pineda |first=Dorany |date=2020-04-17 |title=Coronavirus is topic one among newly announced L.A. Times Book Prize winners |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-17/2019-times-book-prizes-winners-announced |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106101417/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-17/2019-times-book-prizes-winners-announced |archive-date=2021-01-06 |accessdate=2021-02-16 |website=Los Angeles Times}} |
|---|
| 2020
|{{Sortname|Stephen Graham|Jones}} |{{Sort|Only Good Indians|The Only Good Indians}} | |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Zen|last=Cho}} |Spirits Abroad: Stories |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|Nicola|Griffith}} |Spear | |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Tananarive|Due}} |{{Sort|Reformatory|The Reformatory}} |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Kelly|Link}} |The Book of Love |
=Science and technology=
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology}}
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="width:100%"
|+Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology winners ! scope="col" width="5%" | Year ! scope="col" width="20%" | Author ! scope="col" width="45%" | Title ! scope="col" width="25%" | Publisher ! scope="col" width="5%" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 1989
|{{sortname|Frans|de Waal}} |Peacemaking among Primates | |
|---|
| 1990
|{{sortname|Jane S. |Smith}} |Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine | |
| 1991
|{{sortname|Grigori|Medvedev}} | |
| 1992
|{{sortname|Jared|Diamond}} |The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal | |
| 1993
|{{sortname|Daniel|McNeill}} and Paul Freiberger |Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|Jonathan|Weiner}} |The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | |
| 1995
|{{sortname|Edward O. |Wilson}} |Naturalist | |
| 1996
|{{sortname|Carl|Sagan}} |The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|Steven|Pinker}} | |
| 1998
|{{sortname|Douglas|Starr}} |Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|Dava|Sobel}} |Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|James|Le Fanu}}, M.D. |The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Richard|Hamblyn}} |The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies |
| 2002
|{{sortname|Brenda|Maddox}} |Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Philip J. |Hilts}} |Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation | |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Charles|Wohlforth}} |The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change |North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Diana|Preston|Diana Preston (writer)}} |Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima |
| 2006
|{{sortname|Eric R. |Kandel}} |In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Douglas|Hofstadter}} | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Leonard|Susskind}} |The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Graham|Farmelo}} |The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Oren|Harman}} |The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Sylvia|Nasar}} |Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Florence|Williams}} |Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Alan|Weisman}} |Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Elizabeth|Kolbert}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Andrea|Wulf}} |The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Luke|Dittrich}} |Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Robert|Sapolsky}} |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Beth|Macy}} |Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Maria|Popova}} |Figuring |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Sara|Seager}} |The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Chanda|last=Prescod-Weinstein}} |The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|first=Sabrina|last=Imbler}} |How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures |
| 2023
|{{Sortname|Eugenia|Cheng}} |Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us To Mathematics' Deepest Truths. |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Rebecca|Boyle}} |Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are |
= Young adult literature =
{{Main|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel}}
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature winners ! scope="col" width="5%" | Year ! scope="col" width="20%" | Author ! scope="col" width="45%" | Title ! scope="col" width="25%" | Publisher ! scope="col" width="5%" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 1998
|{{sortname|Joan|Bauer|Joan Bauer (novelist)}} |Rules of the Road | |
|---|
| 1999
|{{sortname|Robert|Cormier}} |Frenchtown Summer | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|Jacqueline|Woodson}} | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Mildred D.|Taylor}} |Phyllis Fogelman Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2002
|{{sortname|M. T.|Anderson}} |Feed | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Donnelly}} | |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Melvin|Burgess}} |Henry Holt Books for Young Readers | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Per|Nilsson|Per Nilsson (writer)}} with Tara Chace (trans.) |You & You & You |Front Street/Boyds Mills Press |
| 2006
|{{sortname|Coe|Booth}} |Tyrell |Push / Scholastic |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Philip|Reeve}} | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Terry|Pratchett}} |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Elizabeth|Partridge}} |Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Megan|Whalen Turner}} |Greenwillow/HarperCollins |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Pete|Hautman}} |{{Sort|Big Crunch|The Big Crunch}} |
| 2012
|{{sortname|A. S.|King}} |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Gene|Yang}} |
| 2014
|{{sortname|Candace|Fleming}} |The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia |Schwartz & Wade/Random House Children's |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Marilyn|Nelson}} |My Seneca Village |Namelos | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Frances|Hardinge}} |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Jason|Reynolds}} | |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Elizabeth|Acevedo}} |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Malla|Nunn}} |When the Ground Is Hard |{{Cite web |date=2020-04-22 |title='When the Ground is Hard' wins LA Times Book Prize for YA |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/04/22/149492/when-the-ground-is-hard-wins-la-times-book-prize-for-ya/ |access-date=2020-05-07 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU |archive-date=2020-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612160126/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/04/22/149492/when-the-ground-is-hard-wins-la-times-book-prize-for-ya/ |url-status=live }} |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Yusef|Salaam}} and Ibi Zoboi |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|last=Williams-Garcia|first=Rita}} |{{Sort|Sitting in St. James|A Sitting in St. James}} |Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins Children's Books |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|Lyn |Miller-Lachmann}} |Torch | |
| 2023
|{{sortname|Amber|McBride}} |Gone Wolf |
| 2024
|{{sortname|Kim|Johnson}} |The Color of a Lie |
= Innovator's Award =
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Innovator's Award winners ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Author ! scope="col" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Dave|Eggers}} |
|---|
| 2010
|Powell's Books, bookstore |
| 2011
|Figment, self-publishing platform |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Margaret|Atwood}} |
| 2013
|{{sortname|John|Green}} | |
| 2014
|{{sortname|LeVar|Burton}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|James|Patterson}} | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Rueben|Martinez}} | |
| 2017
|{{sortname|Glory|Edim}} | |
| 2018
| |
| 2019 |
| 2020
|Book Industry Charitable Foundation |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Reginald Dwayne|last=Betts}} |
| 2022 |
| 2023
|— | |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|first=Amanda|last=Gorman}} |
=Robert Kirsch Award=
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+The Robert Kirsch Award winners ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Author ! scope="col" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
| 1980
|{{sortname|Wallace|Stegner}} | |
|---|
| 1981
|{{sortname|Wright|Morris}} | |
| 1982
|{{sortname|Ross|Macdonald}} | |
| 1983
|{{sortname|M. F. K. |Fisher}} | |
| 1984
|{{sortname|Christopher|Isherwood}} | |
| 1985
|{{sortname|Janet|Lewis}} | |
| 1986
|{{sortname|Kay|Boyle}} | |
| 1987
|{{sortname|Paul|Horgan}} | |
| 1988
|{{sortname|Thom|Gunn}} | |
| 1989
|{{sortname|Karl|Shapiro}} | |
| 1990
|{{sortname|Czeslaw|Milosz}} | |
| 1991
|{{sortname|Ken|Kesey}} | |
| 1992
|{{sortname|Diane|Johnson}} | |
| 1993
|{{sortname|Carolyn|See}} | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|Brian|Moore|Brian Moore (novelist)}} | |
| 1995
|{{sortname|Stephen J. |Pyne}} | |
| 1996
|{{sortname|Gary|Snyder}} | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|Ray|Bradbury}} | |
| 1998
|{{sortname|John|Sanford|John Sanford (author)}} | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|Ursula K. |Le Guin}} | |
| 2000
|{{sortname|Lawrence|Ferlinghetti}} | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|Tillie|Olsen}} | |
| 2002
|{{sortname|Larry|McMurtry}} | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|Ishmael|Reed}} | |
| 2004
|{{sortname|Tony|Hillerman}} | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|Joan|Didion}} |
| 2006
|{{sortname|William|Kittredge}} | |
| 2007
|{{sortname|Maxine Hong|Kingston}} | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|Robert|Alter}} |
| 2009
|{{sortname|Evan S. |Connell}} |
| 2010
|{{sortname|Beverly|Cleary}} |
| 2011
|{{sortname|Rudolfo|Anaya}} |
| 2012
|{{sortname|Kevin|Starr}} |
| 2013
|{{sortname|Susan|Straight}} |
| 2014
|{{sortname|TC|Boyle}} |
| 2015
|{{sortname|Juan Felipe|Herrera}} | |
| 2016
|{{sortname|Thomas|McGuane}} | |
| 2017
|{{sortname|John|Rechy}} | |
| 2018
|{{sortname|Terry Tempest|Williams}} | |
| 2019
|{{sortname|Walter|Mosley}} |
| 2020
|{{sortname|Leslie Marmon|Silko}} | |
| 2021
|{{Sortname|first=Luis J.|last=Rodriguez}} |
| 2022
|{{Sortname|first=James|last=Ellroy}} |
| 2023
| |
| 2024
|{{Sortname|Pico|Iyer}} |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
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{{Los Angeles Times Book Prize}}
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