The Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2024

by Los Angeles Times

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60 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 marked 45 years of recognizing literary achievement.

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See the source list and commentary at events.latimes.com

Art Sheidenbaum Award

Winner

Cinema Love

Jiaming Tang, 2024

Finalists

Ghostroots

'Pemi Aguda, 2024

Olive Days

Jessica Elisheva Emerson, 2024

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

Joseph Earl Thomas, 2024

What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

Julian Zabalbeascoa, 2024

Audiobook Prize

Winner

James

Percival Everett, 2024

Finalists

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin, 2024

1984

George Orwell, 2014

Our Hidden Conversations

What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Michele Norris, 2024

Biography

Winner

Orwell's Ghosts

Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century

Laura Beers, 2024

Finalists

Candy Darling

Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr, 2024

We Were Illegal

Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration

Jessica Goudeau, 2024

Survival Is a Promise

The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 2024

The Dragon from Chicago

The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany

Pamela D. Toler, 2024

Christopher Isherwood Prize

Winner

Health and Safety

Emily Witt, 2024

Current interest

Winner

The Rent Collectors

Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA

Jesse Katz, 2024

Finalists

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer, 2025

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2024

The Serviceberry

Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2024

The Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson, 2024

Fiction

Winner

Say Hello to My Little Friend

Jennine Capó Crucet, 2025

Finalists

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel, 2025

James

Percival Everett, 2024

Season of the Swamp

Yuri Herrera, 2025

All Fours

Miranda July, 2025

Graphic Novel/Comics

Winner

Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1

Taiyo Matsumoto, 2024

Finalists

Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 2

The Cursed Hermit

Kris Bertin, 2024

Cutting Season

Bhanu Pratap, 2024

Petar & Liza

Miroslav Sekulic-Struja, 2024

Rare Flavours

History

Winner

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Andrea Freeman, 2024

Finalists

The Black Tax

150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

Andrew W. Kahrl, 2024

The Black Utopians

Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America

Aaron Robertson, 2024

Cold War Country

How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism

Joseph M. Thompson, 2024

The Other Olympians

Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters, 2024

Mystery/thriller

Winner

The Puzzle Box

Danielle Trussoni, 2024

Finalists

Havoc

Christopher Bollen, 2024

The Waiting

Michael Connelly, 2025

Guide Me Home

Attica Locke, 2024

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore, 2024

Poetry

Winner

Room Swept Home

Remica Bingham-Risher, 2024

Finalists

The Sorrow Apartments

Andrea Cohen, 2024

Ward Toward

Cindy Juyoung Ok, Rae Armantrout, 2024

Inner Verses

Black Bell

Alison C. Rollins, 2024

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Winner

The Book of Love

Kelly Link, 2025

Finalists

The Naming Song

Jedediah Berry, 2024

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

Lev Grossman, 2024

Absolution

A Southern Reach Novel

Jeff VanderMeer, 2024

The City in Glass

Science And Technology

Winner

Our Moon

How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle, 2024

Finalists

Becoming Earth

A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life

Ferris Jabr, 2025

Twelve Trees

The Deep Roots of Our Future

Daniel Lewis, 2024

Math in Drag

Kyne Santos, 2024

The Light Eaters

How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger, 2024

Young Adult Literature

Winner

The Color of a Lie

Kim Johnson, 2024

Finalists

Kindling

Traci Chee, 2024

Looking for Smoke

K. A. Cobell, 2024

Bright Red Fruit

Safia Elhillo, 2024

Shut Up, This Is Serious

Carolina Ixta, 2024