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Edition 28 (2007)

BiographyCurrent interestFictionArt Seidenbaum Award for First FictionHistoryMystery/ThrillerPoetryScience and TechnologyYoung Adult NovelGraphic Novel/ComicsRay Bradbury Prize (SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction)Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseInnovator's AwardRobert Kirsch AwardAchievement in Audiobook Production (established 2023, presented by Audible)

Winners

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The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction went to Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.

A novel of immigrant loneliness and urban dislocation.

240 pages
immigrationlonelinessurban lifebelonging

The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography went to Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin.

A biography of Stalin before he became Stalin.

496 pages
biographyRussian historyrevolutionthe twentieth century

A memoir by a literature professor at West Point that reflects on what it means to read books in the space between war and peace. Through conversations with cadets headed to Iraq and Afghanistan, Samet shows how literature shapes the thoughts and feelings of young people preparing for military service.

A quiet memoir that explores what it means to read literature between war and peace from a West Point classroom.

288 pages
memoirmilitary educationliterature and warWest Point
288 pages
Tim Weiner Winner
702 pages
Karin Fossum Winner
306 pages
96 pages
436 pages
Philip Reeve Winner
533 pages