Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 40 (2019)
Winners
14 peopleAn epic novel that reimagines Zambian history across generations through myth, family saga, and speculative invention.
An epic novel that reimagines Zambian history across generations through myth, family saga, and speculative invention.
A biography that examines Richard Holbrooke's ambition, flaws, and role in shaping late-20th-century American diplomacy.
A biography that examines Richard Holbrooke's ambition, flaws, and role in shaping late-20th-century American diplomacy.
A collection of essays that explores race, family, and embodied experience through Emily Bernard's perspective as a Black woman.
A collection of essays that explores race, family, and embodied experience through Emily Bernard's perspective as a Black woman.
A sharp examination of prosecutorial power that questions sentencing, bail, discretion, and the machinery of mass incarceration.
A sharp examination of prosecutorial power that questions sentencing, bail, discretion, and the machinery of mass incarceration.
Set in 1990s Topeka, the novel follows a debate star and his family while probing the link between language, power, and identity.
Set in 1990s Topeka, the novel follows a debate star and his family while probing the link between language, power, and identity.
A graphic novel that quietly follows a couple trying to build a future, a home, and a family in a tense near future.
A graphic novel that quietly follows a couple trying to build a future, a home, and a family in a tense near future.
A research-driven history book that reexamines white women's role in slaveholding in the American South.
A research-driven history book that reexamines white women's role in slaveholding in the American South.
A suspense novel that traces the aftershocks of racial violence in Los Angeles through two families connected by old trauma.
A suspense novel that traces the aftershocks of racial violence in Los Angeles through two families connected by old trauma.
A poetry collection set in an occupied town where silence becomes a form of resistance after a boy is killed.
A poetry collection set in an occupied town where silence becomes a form of resistance after a boy is killed.
A wide-ranging exploration of love, truth, and meaning that connects lives from Johannes Kepler to Rachel Carson.
A wide-ranging exploration of love, truth, and meaning that connects lives from Johannes Kepler to Rachel Carson.
A young adult novel set at a Swaziland boarding school where two girls discover friendship across class and racial divides.
A young adult novel set at a Swaziland boarding school where two girls discover friendship across class and racial divides.
An expansive fantasy novel that blends African history and myth as a mercenary searches for a missing child.
An expansive fantasy novel that blends African history and myth as a mercenary searches for a missing child.