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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerA Conspiracy of Kings: Book 4 of The Queen's ThiefMegan Whalen TurnerSophos, heir to the throne of Sounis, has disappeared without a trace. Eugenides, the new and unlikely king of Attolia, has never stopped wondering what happened to his friend. Nor has the Queen of Eddis, who once offered Sophos her hand. They send spies. ...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistSugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and ScienceMarc Aronson, Marina BudhosAmazonThe Curse of the WendigoRick YanceyAmazonThe Ring of Solomon: A Bartimaeus NovelJonathan StroudAmazonWicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch TrialsStephanie HemphillAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerAttorney for the Damned, John A. FarrellClarence Darrow...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCatherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanRobert K. MassieAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazonMy Long Trip Home: A Family MemoirMark WhitakerAmazonReading My Father: A MemoirAlexandra StyronAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThinking Fast and SlowDaniel KahnemanThe New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and ho...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistEl Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal InsurgencyIoan GrilloAmazonIs That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingAlex BellosAmazonPakistan: A Hard CountryAnatol LievenAmazonThe Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and FearSeth MnookinAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLuminarium: A NovelAlex ShakarThis Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning novel is a “dizzyingly smart and provocative” look at technology, spirituality, and the search for meaning (Dave Eggers). A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekl...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBinocular Vision: New & Selected StoriesEdith PearlmanAmazonGhost Light: A NovelJoseph O'ConnorAmazonThe Buddha in the Attic: A NovelJulie OtsukaAmazonThe Cat's Table: A NovelMichael OndaatjeAmazon

25Mar

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerShards: A NovelIsmet PrcicA New York Times Notable Book. “Brilliant . . . With verbal glee, Prcic serves up a darkly comic vision of the terrors and misunderstandings of immigration” (Shelf Awareness). Ismet Prcic’s brilliant, provocative, and energetic debut novel is about a young...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistLeaving the Atocha Station: A NovelBen LernerAmazonTen Thousand Saints: A NovelEleanor HendersonAmazonThe Arriviste: A NovelJames WallensteinAmazonThe Art of Fielding: A NovelChad HarbachAmazon

25Mar

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerFinder: VoiceCarla Speed McNeilWhat you find isn't nearly as important as what finds you . . . Since 1996, Finder has set the bar for science-fiction storytelling, with a lush, intricate world and compelling characters. Now, Carla Speed McNeil's Eisner Award-winning series comes to Dark...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistCelluloidDave McKeanAmazonCongress of the AnimalsJim WoodringAmazonGardenYuichi YokoyamaAmazonI Will Bite You! And Other StoriesJoseph LambertAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerRailroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard WhiteDescribes the roll played by the transcontinental railroads in the making of modern America during the Gilded Age, discussing the economic panics caused by their debt and how their dependence on donations from the wealthy initiated new forms of corruption....Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History Shortlist1861: The Civil War AwakeningAdam GoodheartAmazonMolotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian HistoryRachel PolonskyAmazonThe Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and ImaginationJavier Cercas, Anne McLeanAmazonTo End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918Adam HochschildAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller Winner11/22/1963: A NovelStephen KingReceiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistPlugged: A NovelEoin ColferAmazonSnowdrops: A NovelA.D. MillerAmazonStarted Early, Took My DogKate AtkinsonAmazonThe End of the Wasp Season: A NovelDenise MinaAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerDouble Shadow: PoemsCarl PhillipsA stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low Comparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life cast...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDevotionsBruce SmithAmazonDiscipline (Dawn Lundy Martin)Dawn Lundy MartinAmazonSongs of UnreasonJim HarrisonAmazonThe Public Gardens: Poems and HistoryLinda NortonAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerGrand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSylvia NasarTraces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen....Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil GusherJoel AchenbachAmazonBlood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific RevolutionHolly TuckerAmazonThe Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodJames GleickAmazonUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of MenMara HvistendahlAmazon