Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 32 (2011)
Winners
12 peopleA fragmented autobiographical novel that traces memory, war, and the afterlife of displacement in Bosnia.
A life reassembled from the broken pieces left behind by war.
A biography of Clarence Darrow that examines the tensions between law, politics, and reform in modern America.
Darrow’s life emerges as a portrait of an era as much as of a lawyer.
A major study of how intuitive and deliberate thinking shape judgment, choice, and error.
Why we err, and how the mind’s two systems help explain it.
A novel that moves between virtual worlds, spiritual longing, and family fracture to examine modern consciousness.
Where technology and spirituality meet, reality starts to blur.
A graphic novel that follows Rachel as she navigates clan tradition, family responsibility, and a struggle for security.
A young person searches for a place inside a story of inheritance and survival.
A sweeping history that reinterprets the transcontinental railroads as a foundation of modern American power and corruption.
Were the railroads symbols of progress, or engines of power?
A time-travel novel in which the Kennedy assassination becomes the point of departure for a meditation on history and consequence.
If the past can be changed, can the future be saved?
A poetry collection that traces a mind suspended between restraint and impulse in lucid, spare language.
Hesitation and resolve reverberate within the same voice.
A sweeping history of economic thought told through the lives and struggles of the people who shaped it.
How economics became a force that reshaped human destiny.
A young-adult novel that explores the gap between romantic expectation and reality with light, sharp dialogue.
The story begins not with a perfect meet-cute, but with awkward, honest feeling.