Award
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
45 years tracked (1980–2025), 223 entries total.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize is a set of annual book prizes awarded by the Los Angeles Times since 1980, currently with nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Additionally, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West, named after the book critic who conceived the prizes.
2025
A Magnificent Loneliness
Angelica and the Bear Prince
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
El Dorado Drive
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Ibis: A Novel
Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection
Luminous
Palaver: A Novel
Playworld: A Novel
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
2024
Cinema Love
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Room Swept Home
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, From the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
Say Hello to My Little Friend
The Book of Love
The Color of a Lie
The Puzzle Box
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant L.A.
Tokyo These Days (Vol. 1)
2023
A Guest in the House
Bread and Circus: Poems
Company: Stories
Gone Wolf
Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us To Mathematics' Deepest Truths.
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Same Bed Different Dreams
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
Sing Her Down
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The Reformatory
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
2022
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Secret Identity: A Novel
Solenoid
Solito: A Memoir.
Spear
The Return of Faraz Ali
Torch
Wash Day Diaries
2021
A Sitting in St. James
Brood
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Cuba: An American History
frank: sonnets
In the Company of Men
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
No One Else
Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
Spirits Abroad: Stories
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
The Turnout
2020
Apsara Engine
At Night All Blood Is Black
Blacktop Wasteland
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
Mayflies
Obit
Punching the Air
The Only Good Indians
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Song for the Unraveling of the World
This Is How You Lose the Time War
