The Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2021

by Los Angeles Times

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48 books

The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are dedicated to discovering new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing across the spectrum of book publishing. This year’s ceremony will mark 42 years of recognizing literary achievement.

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Art Seidenbaum Award

Winner

Brood

Jackie Polzin, 2021

Finalists

Assembly

Natasha Brown, 2021

The Recent East

Thomas Grattan, 2021

My Monticello

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, 2021

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut, 2021

Biography

Winner

Burning Boy

The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Paul Auster, 2021

Finalists

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner, 2021

Competing with Idiots

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

Nick Davis, 2021

Mike Nichols

Mark Harris, 2021

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night

Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

John Tresch, 2021

Current Interest

Winner

Midnight in Washington

How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

Adam Schiff, 2021

Finalists

Invisible Child

Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott, 2021

The Sum of Us

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee, 2021

Halfway Home

Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Reuben Jonathan Miller, 2021

Wildland

The Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos, 2021

Fiction

Winner

In the Company of Men

Véronique Tadjo, 2021

Finalists

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mariana Enriquez, 2021

American Estrangement: Stories

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, 2021

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

Claire Vaye Watkins, 2021

Harrow

Joy Williams, 2021

History

Winner

Cuba

An American History

Ada Ferrer, 2021

Finalists

Traveling Black

A Story of Race and Resistance

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

African Europeans

An Untold History

Olivette Otele, 2021

I've Been Here All the While

Black Freedom on Native Land

Alaina E. Roberts, 2021

Mystery/Thriller

Winner

The Turnout

Megan Abbott, 2022

Finalists

The Dark Hours

Michael Connelly, 2021

The Collective

Alison Gaylin, 2021

Velvet Was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2021

Poetry

Winner

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss, 2021

Finalists

Master Suffering

C. M. Burroughs, 2021

Playlist for the Apocalypse

Rita Dove, 2021

Floaters: Poems

Martín Espada, 2021

Yellow Rain

Mai Der Vang, 2021

Ray Bradbury Prize

Winner

Spirits Abroad

Finalists

Light From Uncommon Stars

Ryka Aoki, 2021

The World Gives Way

Marissa Levien, 2022

Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon, 2021

Science & Technology

Winner

The Disordered Cosmos

A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, 2021

Finalists

Saving Us

A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Katharine Hayhoe, 2021

Wild Souls

Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Emma Marris, 2021

God, Human, Animal, Machine

Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn, 2021

A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

Scott Weidensaul, 2021

Young Adult Literature

Winner

A Sitting in St. James

Rita Williams-Garcia, 2021

Finalists

A Snake Falls to Earth

Darcie Little Badger, 2021

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo, 2021

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Kekla Magoon, 2021

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

Paula Yoo, 2021