The Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2020

by Los Angeles Times
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57 books
Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction.
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The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
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Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
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Biography
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Current Interest
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Fiction
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Graphic Novel
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History
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South to Freedom

Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Alice L Baumgartner, 2020

The Deportation Machine

America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Adam Goodman, 2021

The Broken Heart of America

St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson, 2020

The United States of War

A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
David Vine, 2020
Mystery & Thriller
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Poetry
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Science & Technology
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian, 2020

Why Fish Don't Exist

A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller, 2021

Why Fish Don't Exist

A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller, 2020

The Alchemy of Us

How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Ainissa Ramirez, 2020

The Book of Eels

Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
Patrik Svensson, 2020
Ray Bradbury Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
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Young Adult
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