The Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2023

by Los Angeles Times

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50 books

Since 1980, The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been dedicated to discovering new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing across the spectrum of book publishing.

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Art Seidenbaum

Winner

Company

Shannon Sanders, 2023

Finalists

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

Stephen Buoro, 2023

I'm a Fan

Sheena Patel, 2023

Idlewild

James Frankie Thomas, 2023

Dearborn

Ghassan Zeineddine, 2023

Biography

Winner

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich, 2023

Finalists

Young Queens

Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

Leah Redmond Chang, 2023

Longstreet

The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Elizabeth Varon, 2023

Winnie and Nelson

Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg, 2023

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

David Waldstreicher, 2023

Christopher Isherwood Prize

Winner

Monsters

A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer, 2023

Current Interest

Winner

We Were Once a Family

A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian, 2023

Finalists

Punished for Dreaming

How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love, 2023

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe, 2023

American Gun

The True Story of the AR-15

Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson, 2023

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

A Palestinian Memoir

Raja Shehadeh, 2023

Fiction

Winner

Same Bed Different Dreams

Finalists

Loved and Missed

Susie Boyt, 2023

The Dog of the North

Elizabeth McKenzie, 2023

Wednesday's Child

Blackouts

Justin Torres, 2023

History

Winner

Shadows at Noon

The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji, 2023

Finalists

The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk, 2023

Palo Alto

A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris, 2023

Brooding over Bloody Revenge

Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Nikki M. Taylor, 2023

Mystery/Thriller

Winner

Sing Her Down

Ivy Pochoda, 2023

Finalists

Dark Ride

Lou Berney, 2023

Everybody Knows

Jordan Harper, 2023

All the Sinners Bleed

S. A. Cosby, 2023

Time's Undoing

Cheryl A. Head, 2024

Poetry

Winner

Bread and Circus

Airea D. Matthews, 2023

Finalists

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

The Court of No Record

Jenny Molberg, 2023

Couplets

Maggie Millner, 2023

Master

Simon Shieh, 2023

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Winner

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due, 2023

Finalists

Whalefall

Daniel Kraus, 2023

The Fragile Threads of Power

V. E. Schwab, 2023

Lone Women

Victor LaValle, 2024

Jewel Box

E. Lily Yu, 2023

Science & Technology

Winner

Is Math Real?

How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

Eugenia Cheng, 2023

Finalists

The Heat Will Kill You First

Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell, 2023

A Book of Noises

Notes on the Auraculous

Caspar Henderson, 2023

The Possibility of Life

Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

Jaime Green, 2023

A City on Mars

Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith, 2023

Young Adult Literature

Winner

Gone Wolf

Amber McBride, 2023

Finalists

Forgive Me Not

Jennifer Baker, 2023

Invisible Son

Kim Johnson, 2023

Dear Medusa

(A Novel in Verse)

Olivia A. Cole, 2024

Monstrous

A Transracial Adoption Story

Sarah Myer, 2023