Sunday, November 24

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMarching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow WearyElizabeth PartridgeFocusing on the courageous children who faced terrifying violence in order to march alongside King, this is an inspiring look at their fight for the vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white photos accompany the text....Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistCharles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of FaithDeborah HeiligmanAmazonTales from Outer SuburbiaShaun TanAmazonThe Lost ConspiracyFrances HardingeAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthyJames Cross GiblinAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionLaura HillenbrandRelates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war....Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistColonel RooseveltEdmund MorrisAmazonGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War IMiranda CarterAmazonHitch-22: A MemoirChristopher HitchensAmazonThe Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A BiographySelina HastingsAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineMichael LewisThe #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount Pictures From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble coll...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAll the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial CrisisBethany McLean, Joe NoceraAmazonJust KidsPatti SmithAmazonThe Promise: President Obama, Year OneJonathan AlterAmazonWarSebastian JungerAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganJennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader d...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDay for Night: A NovelFrederick ReikenAmazonFreedom: A NovelJonathan FranzenAmazonNashville Chrome: A NovelRick BassAmazonSomething Is Out There: StoriesRichard BauschAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe House of Tomorrow: A NovelPeter BognanniHomeschooled teenager Sebastian Prendergast is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and befriends a chain-smoking teen who introduces him to pop culture through the punk band they form together....Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistPortraits of a Few People I've Made Cry: StoriesChristine SneedAmazonThe Gin Closet: A NovelLeslie JamisonAmazonThe Lotus EatersTatjana SoliAmazonThe More I Owe You: A NovelMichael SledgeAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerDuncan the Wonder Dog: Show OneAdam Hines...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistBodyworldDash ShawAmazonThe LodgerKarl StevensAmazonWeathercraftJim WoodringAmazonYou’ll Never Know, Book Two: Collateral DamageC. TylerAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Killing of Crazy HorseThomas PowersInvestigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within a context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes and analyzing the subjugation of Nort...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistCultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/IraqJohn W. DowerAmazonRoosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic PartySusan DunnAmazonWashington: A LifeRon ChernowAmazonWater: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and CivilizationSteven SolomonAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A NovelTom FranklinSilas Jones is the sole law enforcement officer in Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas on...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistCity of DragonsKelli StanleyAmazonCollusion: A Jack Lennon InvestigationStuart NevilleAmazonFaithful Place: A NovelTana FrenchAmazonI'd Know You Anywhere: A NovelLaura LippmanAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerWhere I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010Maxine KuminA collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate of the United States, including poems from five of her past 17 books, and including 23 new poems that reflect on the author's farm life and poets of the past....Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistFrom Unincorporated Territory: SainaCraig Santos PerezAmazonGod's OptimismYehoshua NovemberAmazonPierce the Skin: Selected PoemsHenri ColeAmazonTo See the Earth Before the End of the WorldEd RobersonAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of KindnessOren HarmanDescribes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave away all his belongings and took his own life in a squatter's flat....Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistMerchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global WarmingNaomi Oreskes, Erik M. ConwayAmazonRadioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and FalloutLauren RednissAmazonThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha MukherjeeAmazonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack...