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Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort
A man with amnesia wanders through Paris in search of the person he used to be. Absence, identity, and the search for self unfold as a quiet suspense novel.
Marilynne Robinson
A quiet novel in which a pastor in small-town Iowa writes to his young son and reflects on faith, family, and the meaning of an ordinary life.
Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange
The memoir intertwines Oz’s childhood memories, family history, and the cultural and political landscape of Israel.
Alberto Arbasino
An essay collection that moves between criticism and recollection, evoking the music and theatrical culture of the 1950s.
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography recognized Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's de Kooning: An American Master, a biography of Willem de Kooning and his artistic career.
August Kleinzahler
A poetry collection that moves lightly among travel, cities, music, and art. Humor and intellectual association mingle as the poems travel freely between distant scenes and everyday fragments.
K. L. Going
A punk-inflected coming-of-age novel about an isolated teen who finds confidence through friendship and music.
Gwyneth A. Jones
A richly textured fictional biography of the brilliant Anna Sen oz, a scientist who makes a momentous discovery about the X and Y chromosomes. Her discovery provokes widespread sexual rage and impacts cruelly on her career, her marriage, and her child. Ultimately, Anna faces a challenge that the practice of science alone cannot meet. Original.
Colm Toibin
A novel focused on the later life of Henry James. It closely follows creativity, solitude, love, and loss while tracing the inner life of a writer with quiet precision.
Alice Munro
A linked story collection that follows women’s escapes and acts of self-definition under the shadow of family.
Geoffrey C. Ward
A biography of Jack Johnson that follows his rise and fall as a Black boxer. Beyond sports history, it examines the relationship between race and celebrity.
Geoffrey R. Stone
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History went to Geoffrey R. Stone's Perilous Times, a history of free speech in wartime.