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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMy Seneca VillageMarilyn Nelson"Poetry illustrated in the poet's own words--with brief prose descriptions of what she sees inside her work--this ... collection takes readers back in time and deep into the mind's eye of Marilyn Nelson ... [who] draws upon history, and her ... imagination...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDrowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New OrleansDon BrownAmazonMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam WarSteve SheinkinAmazonThe Boy in the Black SuitJason ReynoldsAmazonThe Hired GirlLaura Amy SchlitzAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerHitler: Ascent, 1889-1939Volker UllrichSelected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The Times Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprising...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCharlotte Brontë: A Fiery HeartClaire HarmanAmazonGuilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De QuinceyFrances WilsonAmazonKill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James BrownJames McBrideAmazonMad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water LiliesRoss KingAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSecondhand Time: The Last of the SovietsSvetlana Alexievich (Author), Bela Shayevich (Translator)From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voi...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISISRobert F. WorthAmazonCity of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee CampBen RawlenceAmazonDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane MayerAmazonEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the Americ...

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerImagine Me GoneAdam HaslettShe decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith....Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistInnocents and OthersDana SpiottaAmazonSweet Lamb of HeavenLydia MilletAmazonSwing TimeZadie SmithAmazonWhat Belongs to YouGarth GreenwellAmazon

25Mar

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe NixNathan HillThe best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' - John Irving Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the myster...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistSpill Simmer Falter WitherSara BaumeAmazonThe Bed MovedRebecca SchiffAmazonThe Whale: A Love StoryMark BeauregardAmazonWays to DisappearIdra NoveyAmazon

25Mar

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerBeverlyNick DrnasoNick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistDemon: Volume 1Jason ShigaAmazonDon’t Come in HerePatrick KyleAmazonThe ArtistAnna HaifischAmazonWhat Is Obscenity: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her PussyRokudenashikoAmazon

25Mar

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerAn American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873Benjamin MadleyBetween 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supp...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyHeather Ann ThompsonAmazonSpain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939Adam HochschildAmazonWhere the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous RegionMasha GessenAmazonWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold...

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerDodgersBill BeverlyDodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—includin...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistDarktownThomas MullenAmazonHis Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick MacraeGraeme Macrae BurnetAmazonThe GirlsEmma ClineAmazonThe North WaterIan McGuireAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerGap Gardening: Selected PoemsRosmarie WaldropAn essential edition of a major avant-garde poet: "Waldrop compels us to seek out new superlatives"...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistA Woman of PropertyRobyn SchiffAmazonHouse of Lords and Commons: PoemsIshion HutchinsonAmazonMr. Memory & Other PoemsPhillis LevinAmazonWorld of Made and UnmadeJane MeadAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerPatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family SecretsLuke Dittrich“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much ...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistGrunt: The Curious Science of Humans at WarMary RoachAmazonI Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of LifeEd YongAmazonLight: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum AgeBruce WatsonAmazonPandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and BeyondSonia ShahAmazon