LA Times Book PrizeFinalist

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Other Names: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
1,148 Works / 1,153 Items 5,961 Books 264 Reviews ½ 3.9
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Finalist 1,153

WorkCategoryYear
The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara GranRay Bradbury Prize2023
The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex JenningsRay Bradbury Prize2023
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray NaylerRay Bradbury Prize2023
Liberation Day: Stories by George SaundersRay Bradbury Prize2023
Love by Maayan EitanArt Seidenbaum Award2022
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik FofanaArt Seidenbaum Award2022
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar HokeahArt Seidenbaum Award2022
Manywhere: Stories by Morgan ThomasArt Seidenbaum Award2022
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-NaginBiography2022
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer HomansBiography2022
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David MaranissBiography2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert SamuelsBiography2022
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka AokiRay Bradbury Prize2022
Spirits Abroad {expanded edition} by Zen ChoRay Bradbury Prize2022
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana EnríquezRay Bradbury Prize2022
The World Gives Way by Marissa LevienRay Bradbury Prize2022
Sorrowland by Rivers SolomonRay Bradbury Prize2022
Assembly by Natasha BrownArt Seidenbaum Award2021
The Recent East by Thomas GrattanArt Seidenbaum Award2021
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole JohnsonArt Seidenbaum Award2021
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín LabatutArt Seidenbaum Award2021
Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait by Nick DavisBiography2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca DonnerBiography2021
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark HarrisBiography2021
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by John TreschBiography2021
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. BarnettCurrent Interest2021
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea ElliottCurrent Interest2021
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGheeCurrent Interest2021
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan MillerCurrent Interest2021
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan OsnosCurrent Interest2021
American Estrangement: Stories by Said SayrafiezadehFiction2021
I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye WatkinsFiction2021
Harrow by Joy WilliamsFiction2021
Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForgeGraphic Novel/Comics2021
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-KimGraphic Novel/Comics2021
Shadow Life by Hiromi GotoGraphic Novel/Comics2021
Stone Fruit by Lee LaiGraphic Novel/Comics2021
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia BayHistory2021
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae NgaiHistory2021
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette OteleHistory2021
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (America in the Nineteenth Century) by Alaina E. RobertsHistory2021
The Dark Hours by Michael ConnellyMystery/Thriller2021
Razorblade Tears by S.A. CosbyMystery/Thriller2021
The Collective by Alison GaylinMystery/Thriller2021
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMystery/Thriller2021
Master Suffering by C.M. BurroughsPoetry2021
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita DovePoetry2021
Floaters: Poems by Martín EspadaPoetry2021
Yellow Rain: Poems by Mai Der VangPoetry2021
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka AokiRay Bradbury Prize2021
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeRay Bradbury Prize2021
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana EnríquezRay Bradbury Prize2021
The City We Became by N. K. JemisinRay Bradbury Prize2021
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham JonesRay Bradbury Prize2021
The World Gives Way by Marissa LevienRay Bradbury Prize2021
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko MatsudaRay Bradbury Prize2021
Sorrowland by Rivers SolomonRay Bradbury Prize2021
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine HayhoeScience & Technology2021
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma MarrisScience & Technology2021
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'GieblynScience & Technology2021
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott WeidensaulScience & Technology2021
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little BadgerYoung Adult Literature2021
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda LoYoung Adult Literature2021
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla MagoonYoung Adult Literature2021
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula YooYoung Adult Literature2021
Exhalation by Ted ChiangRay Bradbury Prize2020
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarRay Bradbury Prize2020
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian EvensonRay Bradbury Prize2020
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon JamesRay Bradbury Prize2020
The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali SerpellRay Bradbury Prize2020
Optic Nerve by María GainzaArt Seidenbaum Award2019
Say Say Say: A novel by Lila SavageArt Seidenbaum Award2019
The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali SerpellArt Seidenbaum Award2019
Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine SmithArt Seidenbaum Award2019
In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles WinslowArt Seidenbaum Award2019
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo DamroschBiography2019
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George PackerBiography2019
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria RiskinBiography2019
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval TaylorBiography2019
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan ThomasBiography2019
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark AraxCurrent Interest2019
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily BazelonCurrent Interest2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan FarrowCurrent Interest2019
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina NayeriCurrent Interest2019
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise SnyderCurrent Interest2019
We, The Survivors by Tash AwFiction2019
Stay and Fight by Madeline FfitchFiction2019
The Shadow King by Maaza MengisteFiction2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadFiction2019
Leaving Richard's Valley by Michael DeForgeGraphic Novel/Comics2019
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-KimGraphic Novel/Comics2019
Is This How You See Me? by Jaime HernandezGraphic Novel/Comics2019
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko TamakiGraphic Novel/Comics2019
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles KingHistory2019
The Cigarette: A Political History by Sarah MilovHistory2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David TreuerHistory2019
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond ChandlerMystery/Thriller2019
Your House Will Pay by Steph ChaMystery/Thriller2019
The Night Fire by Michael ConnellyMystery/Thriller2019
The Lost Man by Jane HarperMystery/Thriller2019
Heaven, My Home by Attica LockeMystery/Thriller2019
Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne BettsPoetry2019
Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Giménez SmithPoetry2019
Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen MaoPoetry2019
Dunce by Mary RueflePoetry2019
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine EbanScience & Technology2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam HigginbothamScience & Technology2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado PerezScience & Technology2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela SainiScience & Technology2019
SHOUT by Laurie Halse AndersonYoung Adult Literature2019
Dig by A. S. KingYoung Adult Literature2019
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha LaiYoung Adult Literature2019
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy RibayYoung Adult Literature2019
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2019
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner2019
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya ApekinaArt Seidenbaum Award2018
Asymmetry by Lisa HallidayArt Seidenbaum Award2018
The incendiaries by R. O. KwonArt Seidenbaum Award2018
There There by Tommy OrangeArt Seidenbaum Award2018
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. HershBiography2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria JohnsonBiography2018
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob SpitzBiography2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverBiography2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John CarreyrouCurrent Interest2018
The Fifth Risk by Michael LewisCurrent Interest2018
Becoming by Michelle ObamaCurrent Interest2018
The Library Book by Susan OrleanCurrent Interest2018
Washington Black by Esi EdugyanFiction2018
The Wildlands by Abby GeniFiction2018
An American Marriage by Tayari JonesFiction2018
Warlight by Michael OndaatjeFiction2018
Why Art? by Eleanor DavisGraphic Novel/Comics2018
Shit is Real by Aisha FranzGraphic Novel/Comics2018
The Pervert by Michelle PerezGraphic Novel/Comics2018
The Strange by Jérôme RuillierGraphic Novel/Comics2018
On a Sunbeam by Tillie WaldenGraphic Novel/Comics2018
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion by John Huxtable ElliottHistory2018
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby LalHistory2018
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam PawelHistory2018
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya SatiaHistory2018
Give Me Your Hand by Megan AbbottMystery/Thriller2018
Green Sun by Kent AndersonMystery/Thriller2018
November Road by Lou BerneyMystery/Thriller2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteMystery/Thriller2018
Lullaby by Leïla SlimaniMystery/Thriller2018
feeld by Jos CharlesPoetry2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance HayesPoetry2018
Ghost of by Diana Khoi NguyenPoetry2018
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems by Diane SeussPoetry2018
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia BjornerudScience & Technology2018
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose GeorgeScience & Technology2018
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza GriswoldScience & Technology2018
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-AttishaScience & Technology2018
Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy GilbertYoung Adult Literature2018
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire HartfieldYoung Adult Literature2018
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. KrosoczkaYoung Adult Literature2018
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. PanYoung Adult Literature2018
The Idiot by Elif BatumanArt Seidenbaum Award2017
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel KhongArt Seidenbaum Award2017
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoArt Seidenbaum Award2017
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel TallentArt Seidenbaum Award2017
Grant by Ron ChernowBiography2017
Ali: A Life by Jonathan EigBiography2017
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. FarrellBiography2017
Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray by Adam FedermanBiography2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi CoatesCurrent Interest2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.Current Interest2017
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren MarkhamCurrent Interest2017
The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America by Rick WartzmanCurrent Interest2017
The Changeling by Victor LaValleFiction2017
The Burning Girl by Claire MessudFiction2017
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek ShanbhagFiction2017
Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle BellGraphic Novel/Comics2017
The Interview by Manuele FiorGraphic Novel/Comics2017
Present by Leslie SteinGraphic Novel/Comics2017
Anti-Gone by Connor WillumsenGraphic Novel/Comics2017
Iceland by Yuichi YokoyamaGraphic Novel/Comics2017
London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City by Stephen AlfordHistory2017
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark BowdenHistory2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGeraldHistory2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard RothsteinHistory2017
The Late Show by Michael ConnellyMystery/Thriller2017
The Night Ocean by Paul La FargeMystery/Thriller2017
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeMystery/Thriller2017
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol OatesMystery/Thriller2017
Wonder Valley by Ivy PochodaMystery/Thriller2017
Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment by Alessandra LynchPoetry2017
In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCraePoetry2017
semiautomatic (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Evie ShockleyPoetry2017
Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia SmithPoetry2017
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin by Cornelia DeanScience & Technology2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. DoudnaScience & Technology2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. SapolskyScience & Technology2017
Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence by Max TegmarkScience & Technology2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew WalkerScience & Technology2017
Genuine Fraud by E. LockhartYoung Adult Literature2017
The 57 Bus by Dashka SlaterYoung Adult Literature2017
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasYoung Adult Literature2017
Piecing Me Together by Renée WatsonYoung Adult Literature2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward2017
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara BaumeArt Seidenbaum Award2016
The Whale: A Love Story: A Novel by Mark BeauregardArt Seidenbaum Award2016
Ways to Disappear by Idra NoveyArt Seidenbaum Award2016
The Bed Moved: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Rebecca SchiffArt Seidenbaum Award2016
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire HarmanBiography2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross KingBiography2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBrideBiography2016
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances WilsonBiography2016
The Face: Strangers on a Pier by Tash AwChristopher Isherwood Prize2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham MatarChristopher Isherwood Prize2016
Cockroaches by Scholastique MukasongaChristopher Isherwood Prize2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonChristopher Isherwood Prize2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondCurrent Interest2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane MayerCurrent Interest2016
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben RawlenceCurrent Interest2016
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS by Robert F. WorthCurrent Interest2016
What Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellFiction2016
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia MilletFiction2016
Swing Time by Zadie SmithFiction2016
Innocents and Others by Dana SpiottaFiction2016
The Artist by Anna HaifischGraphic Novel/Comics2016
Don't Come in Here by Patrick KyleGraphic Novel/Comics2016
Demon, Volume 1 by Jason ShigaGraphic Novel/Comics2016
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series) by Masha GessenHistory2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 by Adam HochschildHistory2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy IsenbergHistory2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann ThompsonHistory2016
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae BurnetMystery/Thriller2016
The Girls by Emma ClineMystery/Thriller2016
The North Water by Ian McGuireMystery/Thriller2016
Darktown by Thomas MullenMystery/Thriller2016
House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion HutchinsonPoetry2016
Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Poets) by Phillis LevinPoetry2016
World of Made and Unmade by Jane MeadPoetry2016
A Woman of Property (Penguin Poets) by Robyn SchiffPoetry2016
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary RoachScience & Technology2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia ShahScience & Technology2016
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age by Bruce WatsonScience & Technology2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed YongScience & Technology2016
The Head of the Saint by Socorro AcioliYoung Adult Literature2016
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie BerryYoung Adult Literature2016
March: Book Three by John LewisYoung Adult Literature2016
Burn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaYoung Adult Literature2016
Binary Star by Sarah GerardArt Seidenbaum Award2015
Against the Country: A Novel by Ben MetcalfArt Seidenbaum Award2015
Girl at War by Sara NovicArt Seidenbaum Award2015
The Miracle Girl by Andrew RoeArt Seidenbaum Award2015
Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) by Terry AlfordBiography2015
Jonas Salk: A Life by Charlotte DeCroes JacobsBiography2015
Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane by Patrick McGilliganBiography2015
Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism by John NorrisBiography2015
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing by Joe DomanickCurrent Interest2015
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam QuinonesCurrent Interest2015
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy TolanCurrent Interest2015
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen WittCurrent Interest2015
The Green Road by Anne EnrightFiction2015
Delicious Foods by James HannahamFiction2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam JohnsonFiction2015
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen PhillipsFiction2015
New Construction: Two More Stories by Sam AldenGraphic Novel/Comics2015
Tim Ginger by Julian HanshawGraphic Novel/Comics2015
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie ThrashGraphic Novel/Comics2015
Soldier's Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter's Memoir (You'll Never Know) by Carol TylerGraphic Novel/Comics2015
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary BeardHistory2015
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope by Jonathan M. BryantHistory2015
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David MaranissHistory2015
This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason by Mark MoleskyHistory2015
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou BerneyMystery/Thriller2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenMystery/Thriller2015
Bull Mountain by Brian PanowichMystery/Thriller2015
The Whites by Richard PriceMystery/Thriller2015
Chord by Rick BarotPoetry2015
The Ruined Elegance: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) by Fiona Sze-LorrainPoetry2015
Shirt in Heaven by Jean ValentinePoetry2015
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots by John MarkoffScience & Technology2015
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by David J. MorrisScience & Technology2015
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction by Beth ShapiroScience & Technology2015
Rust : the longest war by Jonathan WaldmanScience & Technology2015
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don BrownYoung Adult Literature2015
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason ReynoldsYoung Adult Literature2015
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy SchlitzYoung Adult Literature2015
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) by Steve SheinkinYoung Adult Literature2015
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis2015
Man V. Nature: Stories by Diane CookArt Seidenbaum Award2014
Wolf in White Van by John DarnielleArt Seidenbaum Award2014
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBrideArt Seidenbaum Award2014
The Heaven of Animals: Stories by David James PoissantArt Seidenbaum Award2014
Updike by Adam BegleyBiography2014
Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts by Robert M. DowlingBiography2014
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin DowneyBiography2014
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen KotkinBiography2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul GawandeCurrent Interest2014
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonCurrent Interest2014
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt TaibbiCurrent Interest2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor TobarCurrent Interest2014
The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories by Donald AntrimFiction2014
Silence Once Begun by Jesse BallFiction2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillFiction2014
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen OyeyemiFiction2014
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith FlandersHistory2014
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark HarrisHistory2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter IsaacsonHistory2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence WrightHistory2014
The Painter by Peter HellerMystery/Thriller2014
After I'm Gone by Laura LippmanMystery/Thriller2014
Sins of Our Fathers by Shawn Lawrence OttoMystery/Thriller2014
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter SwansonMystery/Thriller2014
Peace by Gillian ConolyPoetry2014
Blood Lyrics: Poems by Katie FordPoetry2014
In defense of nothing: selected poems, 1987-2011 by Peter GizziPoetry2014
The Feel Trio by Fred MotenPoetry2014
Cosmigraphics by Michael BensonScience & Technology2014
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Martin J. BlaserScience & Technology2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi KleinScience & Technology2014
Dataclysm: Who We Are* *When We Think No One's Looking by Christian RudderScience & Technology2014
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul FleischmanYoung Adult Literature2014
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E. K. JohnstonYoung Adult Literature2014
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew SmithYoung Adult Literature2014
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonYoung Adult Literature2014
Mira Corpora by Jeff JacksonArt Seidenbaum Award2013
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlaneArt Seidenbaum Award2013
I Want To Show You More by Jamie QuatroArt Seidenbaum Award2013
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan RutherfordArt Seidenbaum Award2013
Wilson by A. Scott BergBiography2013
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita EislerBiography2013
Country Girl by Edna O'BrienBiography2013
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah SolomonBiography2013
Thank You for Your Service by David FinkelCurrent Interest2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuffCurrent Interest2013
Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom by Barry SiegelCurrent Interest2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence WrightCurrent Interest2013
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival EverettFiction2013
The Woman Upstairs by Claire MessudFiction2013
Spectacle: Stories by Susan SteinbergFiction2013
The Maid's Version by Daniel WoodrellFiction2013
Incidents in the Night: Volume 1 by David B.Graphic Novel/Comics2013
Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories by Ben KatchorGraphic Novel/Comics2013
The End, Vol. 1 by Anders NilsenGraphic Novel/Comics2013
The Great War : July 1, 1916 : the first of the Battle of the Somme - an illustrated panorama by Joe SaccoGraphic Novel/Comics2013
FDR and the Jews by Richard BreitmanHistory2013
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn FrankelHistory2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns GoodwinHistory2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan TaylorHistory2013
The Honey Guide by Richard CromptonMystery/Thriller2013
Sycamore Row by John GrishamMystery/Thriller2013
The Rage (World Noir) by Gene KerriganMystery/Thriller2013
The Collini Case by Ferdinand von SchirachMystery/Thriller2013
The Inside of an Apple by Joshua BeckmanPoetry2013
Hello, the roses by Mei-Mei BerssenbruggePoetry2013
On Ghosts by Elizabeth RobinsonPoetry2013
Debts & Lessons by Lynn XuPoetry2013
Social: why our brains are wired to connect by Matthew D. LiebermanScience & Technology2013
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia MorellScience & Technology2013
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee NewitzScience & Technology2013
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally SatelScience & Technology2013
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth KnoxYoung Adult Literature2013
Fangirl by Rainbow RowellYoung Adult Literature2013
What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings by Joyce SidmanYoung Adult Literature2013
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan StroudYoung Adult Literature2013
Fobbit by David AbramsArt Seidenbaum Award2012
The Natural Order of Things by Kevin P. KeatingArt Seidenbaum Award2012
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin SloanArt Seidenbaum Award2012
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. BrandsBiography2012
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-HarrisBiography2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David NasawBiography2012
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ SmithBiography2012
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve CollCurrent Interest2012
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott HouseCurrent Interest2012
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim SterbaCurrent Interest2012
The Outpost by Jake TapperCurrent Interest2012
The Middlesteins by Jami AttenbergFiction2012
Telegraph Avenue by Michael ChabonFiction2012
Arcadia by Lauren GroffFiction2012
Magnificence by Lydia MilletFiction2012
Shine, Shine, Shine by Lydia NetzerFiction2012
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison BechdelGraphic Novel/Comics2012
Unterzakhn by Leela CormanGraphic Novel/Comics2012
Cruisin' With the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote by Spain RodriguezGraphic Novel/Comics2012
Building Stories by Chris WareGraphic Novel/Comics2012
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. BarryHistory2012
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone by George BlackHistory2012
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. GreenbergHistory2012
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Geoffrey KabaserviceHistory2012
The Thief by Fuminori NakamuraMystery/Thriller2012
The Expats by Chris PavoneMystery/Thriller2012
The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime) by Ariel S. WinterMystery/Thriller2012
The Ground: Poems by Rowan Ricardo PhillipsPoetry2012
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Gravesend by Cole SwensenPoetry2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan CainScience & Technology2012
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George DysonScience & Technology2012
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan GottschallScience & Technology2012
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't by Nate SilverScience & Technology2012
The Drowned Cities by Paolo BacigalupiYoung Adult Literature2012
My Book of Life by Angel by Martine LeavittYoung Adult Literature2012
Boy21 by Matthew QuickYoung Adult Literature2012
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinYoung Adult Literature2012
The Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachArt Seidenbaum Award2011
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor HendersonArt Seidenbaum Award2011
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben LernerArt Seidenbaum Award2011
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning MarableBiography2011
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. MassieBiography2011
Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra StyronBiography2011
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir by Mark WhitakerBiography2011
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David BellosCurrent Interest2011
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan GrilloCurrent Interest2011
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol LievenCurrent Interest2011
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth MnookinCurrent Interest2011
Ghost Light by Joseph O'ConnorFiction2011
The Cat's Table by Michael OndaatjeFiction2011
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie OtsukaFiction2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith PearlmanFiction2011
I Will Bite You! and Other Stories by Joseph LambertGraphic Novel/Comics2011
Celluloid by Dave McKeanGraphic Novel/Comics2011
Congress of the Animals by Jim WoodringGraphic Novel/Comics2011
Garden by Yuichi YokoyamaGraphic Novel/Comics2011
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier CercasHistory2011
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam GoodheartHistory2011
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam HochschildHistory2011
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel PolonskyHistory2011
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Snowdrops by A. D. MillerMystery/Thriller2011
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise MinaMystery/Thriller2011
Songs of Unreason by Jim HarrisonPoetry2011
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The Public Gardens: Poems and History by Linda NortonPoetry2011
Devotions (Phoenix Poets) by Bruce SmithPoetry2011
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James GleickScience & Technology2011
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara HvistendahlScience & Technology2011
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly TuckerScience & Technology2011
Beauty Queens by Libba BrayYoung Adult Literature2011
A Monster Calls by Patrick NessYoung Adult Literature2011
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal PeetYoung Adult Literature2011
The Scorpio Races by Maggie StiefvaterYoung Adult Literature2011
The Gin Closet by Leslie JamisonArt Seidenbaum Award2010
The More I Owe You: A Novel by Michael SledgeArt Seidenbaum Award2010
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry by Christine SneedArt Seidenbaum Award2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana SoliArt Seidenbaum Award2010
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda CarterBiography2010
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography by Selina HastingsBiography2010
Hitch-22 by Christopher HitchensBiography2010
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisBiography2010
The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan AlterCurrent Interest2010
War by Sebastian JungerCurrent Interest2010
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLeanCurrent Interest2010
Just Kids by Patti SmithCurrent Interest2010
Nashville Chrome by Rick BassFiction2010
Something Is Out There: Stories by Richard BauschFiction2010
Freedom by Jonathan FranzenFiction2010
Day For Night by Frederick ReikenFiction2010
BodyWorld by Dash ShawGraphic Novel/Comics2010
The Lodger by Karl StevensGraphic Novel/Comics2010
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Weathercraft: A Frank Comic by Jim WoodringGraphic Novel/Comics2010
Washington: A Life by Ron ChernowHistory2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. DowerHistory2010
Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party by Susan DunnHistory2010
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven SolomonHistory2010
Faithful Place by Tana FrenchMystery/Thriller2010
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura LippmanMystery/Thriller2010
Collusion by Stuart NevilleMystery/Thriller2010
City of Dragons by Kelli StanleyMystery/Thriller2010
Pierce the skin: selected poems, 1982-2007 by Henri ColePoetry2010
God's Optimism by Yehoshua NovemberPoetry2010
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To See the Earth Before the End of the World (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Ed RobersonPoetry2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha MukherjeeScience & Technology2010
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren RednissScience & Technology2010
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc AronsonYoung Adult Literature2010
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie HemphillYoung Adult Literature2010
The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan StroudYoung Adult Literature2010
The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick YanceyYoung Adult Literature2010
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina GappahArt Seidenbaum Award2009
Tinkers by Paul HardingArt Seidenbaum Award2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal MueenuddinArt Seidenbaum Award2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells TowerArt Seidenbaum Award2009
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin DowneyBiography2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda GordonBiography2009
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael ScammellBiography2009
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin I. UrofskyBiography2009
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Kenneth WhyteBiography2009
Columbine by Dave CullenCurrent Interest2009
Zeitoun by Dave EggersCurrent Interest2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy KidderCurrent Interest2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. KristofCurrent Interest2009
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. ReidCurrent Interest2009
Heroic Measures by Jill CimentFiction2009
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane GardamFiction2009
Blame by Michelle HunevenFiction2009
A Short History of Women by Kate WalbertFiction2009
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GoGo Monster by Taiyō MatsumotoGraphic Novel/Comics2009
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe by Bryan Lee O'MalleyGraphic Novel/Comics2009
Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel by Joe SaccoGraphic Novel/Comics2009
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Passing Strange by Martha A. SandweissHistory2009
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (New Directions in Southern Studies) by Amy Louise WoodHistory2009
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. WoodHistory2009
Bury Me Deep by Megan AbbottMystery/Thriller2009
The Hidden Man by David EllisMystery/Thriller2009
Black Water Rising by Attica LockeMystery/Thriller2009
A Darker Domain by Val McDermidMystery/Thriller2009
Apocalyptic Swing (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Gabrielle CalvocoressiPoetry2009
Open Interval (Pitt Poetry Series) by Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonPoetry2009
Dearest Creature by Amy GerstlerPoetry2009
What the Right Hand Knows (Stahlecker Selections) by Tom HealyPoetry2009
The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia BartusiakScience & Technology2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill StreeverScience & Technology2009
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard WranghamScience & Technology2009
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk YoonScience & Technology2009
The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy by James Cross GiblinYoung Adult Literature2009
Gullstruck Island by Frances HardingeYoung Adult Literature2009
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah HeiligmanYoung Adult Literature2009
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun TanYoung Adult Literature2009
Say You're One of Them by Uwem AkpanArt Seidenbaum Award2008
The Outcast by Sadie JonesArt Seidenbaum Award2008
Mosquito by Roma TearneArt Seidenbaum Award2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiArt Seidenbaum Award2008
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. BrandsBiography2008
Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest FreebergBiography2008
American Lion by Jon MeachamBiography2008
Chagall: A Biography by Jackie WullschlagerBiography2008
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve CollCurrent Interest2008
The Forever War by Dexter FilkinsCurrent Interest2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane MayerCurrent Interest2008
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte TaylorCurrent Interest2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryFiction2008
Lush Life by Richard PriceFiction2008
The Size of the World by Joan SilberFiction2008
The God of War by Marisa SilverFiction2008
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael DobbsHistory2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin FaustHistory2008
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. SugrueHistory2008
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath by Rick WartzmanHistory2008
The Finder by Colin HarrisonMystery/Thriller2008
Bad Traffic by Simon LewisMystery/Thriller2008
The Age of Dreaming by Nina RevoyrMystery/Thriller2008
Child 44 by Tom Rob SmithMystery/Thriller2008
Sea Change: Poems by Jorie GrahamPoetry2008
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie HowePoetry2008
Ours by Cole SwensenPoetry2008
Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream (Phoenix Poets) by Connie VoisinePoetry2008
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery GilbertScience & Technology2008
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. MillerScience & Technology2008
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Martin J. S. RudwickScience & Technology2008
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl ZimmerScience & Technology2008
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace FlemingYoung Adult Literature2008
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Dark Dude by Oscar HijuelosYoung Adult Literature2008
Swallow Me Whole by Nate PowellYoung Adult Literature2008
Skylark Farm by Antonia ArslanArt Seidenbaum Award2007
Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.) by Rebecca CurtisArt Seidenbaum Award2007
The Understory by Pamela ErensArt Seidenbaum Award2007
The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories by Ellen LitmanArt Seidenbaum Award2007
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy IsenbergBiography2007
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim JealBiography2007
Boone: A Biography by Robert MorganBiography2007
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. NeufeldBiography2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahCurrent Interest2007
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures) by Tom BissellCurrent Interest2007
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America by Ronald BrownsteinCurrent Interest2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazFiction2007
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'NanFiction2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per PettersonFiction2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne WigginsFiction2007
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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillanHistory2007
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew NagorskiHistory2007
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne OlsonHistory2007
Christine Falls by Benjamin BlackMystery/Thriller2007
Frozen Tracks by Åke EdwardsonMystery/Thriller2007
In the Woods by Tana FrenchMystery/Thriller2007
Ice Moon by Jan Costin WagnerMystery/Thriller2007
Mars Being Red by Marvin BellPoetry2007
Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems by Elaine EquiPoetry2007
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 by Albert GoldbarthPoetry2007
Little Boat (Wesleyan Poetry) by Jean ValentinePoetry2007
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James L. GouldScience & Technology2007
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine KenneallyScience & Technology2007
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino SegrèScience & Technology2007
On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord SmailScience & Technology2007
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieYoung Adult Literature2007
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughreanYoung Adult Literature2007
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean MyersYoung Adult Literature2007
Darkwing by Kenneth OppelYoung Adult Literature2007
The Zero by Jess Walter2007
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Skinner's Drift by Lisa FugardArt Seidenbaum Award2006
Golden Country by Jennifer GilmoreArt Seidenbaum Award2006
White Ghost Girls by Alice GreenwayArt Seidenbaum Award2006
Mary by Janis Cooke NewmanArt Seidenbaum Award2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby ApplegateBiography2006
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Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey GoldbergBiography2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel MendelsohnBiography2006
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas BrinkleyCurrent Interest2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv ChandrasekaranCurrent Interest2006
The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia DrakeCurrent Interest2006
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri JentzCurrent Interest2006
Black Swan Green by David MitchellFiction2006
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A Novel by Peter OrnerFiction2006
A Million Nightingales by Susan StraightFiction2006
Winter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellFiction2006
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. YehoshuaFiction2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor BranchHistory2006
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall FergusonHistory2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel PhilbrickHistory2006
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The Night Gardener by George PelecanosMystery/Thriller2006
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don WinslowMystery/Thriller2006
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Logorrhea: Poems by Adrian LouisPoetry2006
Burning Wyclif by Thom SatterleePoetry2006
Darling Vulgarity (American Poets Continuum) by Michael WatersPoetry2006
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce ChaplinScience & Technology2006
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann GibbonsScience & Technology2006
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. LevitinScience & Technology2006
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. WilsonScience & Technology2006
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. AndersonYoung Adult Literature2006
Tyrell by Coe BoothYoung Adult Literature2006
An Abundance of Katherines by John GreenYoung Adult Literature2006
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The Rules of Survival by Nancy WerlinYoung Adult Literature2006
Garner by Kirstin AllioArt Seidenbaum Award2005
The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. EvansArt Seidenbaum Award2005
A Sudden Country by Karen FisherArt Seidenbaum Award2005
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga GrushinArt Seidenbaum Award2005
John Crow's Devil by Marlon JamesArt Seidenbaum Award2005
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew DelbancoBiography2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns GoodwinBiography2005
Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth RodgersBiography2005
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven WattsBiography2005
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse by Steve BogiraCurrent Interest2005
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt EichenwaldCurrent Interest2005
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan HarrCurrent Interest2005
Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John UpdikeCurrent Interest2005
The March by E. L. DoctorowFiction2005
Veronica by Mary GaitskillFiction2005
A Long Way Down by Nick HornbyFiction2005
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiFiction2005
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher BaylyHistory2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony JudtHistory2005
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean WilentzHistory2005
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyMystery/Thriller2005
The Right Madness by James CrumleyMystery/Thriller2005
Ash and Bone by John HarveyMystery/Thriller2005
Strange Affair by Peter RobinsonMystery/Thriller2005
Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems (Phoenix Poets) by Gail MazurPoetry2005
The Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems (L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award) by Marilyn NelsonPoetry2005
Luck Is Luck: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Lucia PerilloPoetry2005
Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems by Donald RevellPoetry2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. CarrollScience & Technology2005
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana GosnellScience & Technology2005
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss by Brad MatsenScience & Technology2005
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Looking for Alaska by John GreenYoung Adult Literature2005
Black Juice by Margo LanaganYoung Adult Literature2005
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I Am the Messenger by Markus ZusakYoung Adult Literature2005
Natasha: And Other Stories by David BezmozgisArt Seidenbaum Award2004
Rear View: Stories by Peter DuvalArt Seidenbaum Award2004
Eve Green by Susan FletcherArt Seidenbaum Award2004
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel by Lisa GlattArt Seidenbaum Award2004
Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowBiography2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen GreenblattBiography2004
John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Richard RhodesBiography2004
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt by Michael J. YbarraBiography2004
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen ArmstrongCurrent Interest2004
Blue Blood by Edward ConlonCurrent Interest2004
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education by Michael DirdaCurrent Interest2004
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann PatchettCurrent Interest2004
Graceland by Chris AbaniFiction2004
The Darling by Russell BanksFiction2004
Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonFiction2004
Honored Guest: Stories by Joy WilliamsFiction2004
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansHistory2004
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Max FrankelHistory2004
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven StreetHistory2004
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier by Alfred F. YoungHistory2004
Dark Voyage by Alan FurstMystery/Thriller2004
The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning MankellMystery/Thriller2004
Old Boys by Charles McCarryMystery/Thriller2004
A Question of Blood by Ian RankinMystery/Thriller2004
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen KellyPoetry2004
The Optimist: Poems by Joshua MehiganPoetry2004
The Clerk's Tale: Poems by Spencer ReecePoetry2004
Keeping My Name (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry) by Catherine TufarielloPoetry2004
The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine by Ann B. ParsonScience & Technology2004
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren SlaterScience & Technology2004
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon by Alan TennantScience & Technology2004
His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine by Jonathan WeinerScience & Technology2004
Private Peaceful by Michael MorpurgoYoung Adult Literature2004
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam RappYoung Adult Literature2004
How I Live Now by Meg RosoffYoung Adult Literature2004
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire SáenzYoung Adult Literature2004
Brick Lane by Monica AliArt Seidenbaum Award2003
Goblin Fruit: Stories by David Marshall ChanArt Seidenbaum Award2003
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories by John MurrayArt Seidenbaum Award2003
There Are Jews in My House by Lara VapnyarArt Seidenbaum Award2003
Jung: A Biography by Deirdre BairBiography2003
Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. BinyonBiography2003
Goya by Robert HughesBiography2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca SolnitBiography2003
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon KrakauerCurrent Interest2003
Cut Time: An Education at the Fights by Carlo RotellaCurrent Interest2003
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony SwoffordCurrent Interest2003
Ten Little Indians by Sherman AlexieFiction2003
Jamesland by Michelle HunevenFiction2003
The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriFiction2003
Old School by Tobias WolffFiction2003
Gulag: A History by Anne ApplebaumHistory2003
Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis CromptonHistory2003
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul HoffmanHistory2003
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David MaranissHistory2003
When the King Took Flight by Timothy TackettHistory2003
The Company You Keep by Neil GordonMystery/Thriller2003
The House Sitter by Peter LoveseyMystery/Thriller2003
The Dogs of Riga by Henning MankellMystery/Thriller2003
Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca PawelMystery/Thriller2003
Middle Earth: Poems by Henri ColePoetry2003
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles SimicPoetry2003
Departure: Poems by Rosanna WarrenPoetry2003
Jelly Roll by Kevin YoungPoetry2003
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America by David BaronScience & Technology2003
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler BurrScience & Technology2003
Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension by Stephen S. HallScience & Technology2003
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha BrooksYoung Adult Literature2003
Kevin Henkes Olive's Ocean (Book… by Sarah Ellis by Kevin HenkesYoung Adult Literature2003
The River Between Us by Richard PeckYoung Adult Literature2003
After by Francine ProseYoung Adult Literature2003
The Stars Can Wait: A Novel by Jay BasuArt Seidenbaum Award2002
Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole KraussArt Seidenbaum Award2002
The Impressionist by Hari KunzruArt Seidenbaum Award2002
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerArt Seidenbaum Award2002
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda BelliBiography2002
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel EllsbergBiography2002
Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. StilesBiography2002
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire TomalinBiography2002
The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention by Kira BrunnerCurrent Interest2002
Seeing in the dark by Timothy FerrisCurrent Interest2002
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin PhillipsCurrent Interest2002
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha PowerCurrent Interest2002
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter CameronFiction2002
Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar HemonFiction2002
Moral Hazard by Kate JenningsFiction2002
Tourmaline by Joanna ScottFiction2002
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip DrayHistory2002
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Hip Logic (National Poetry Series) by Terrance HayesMystery/Thriller2002
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Reversible Errors by Scott TurowMystery/Thriller2002
North Point North: New and Selected Poems by John KoethePoetry2002
Hazmat by J. D. McClatchyPoetry2002
Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette MullenPoetry2002
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah BlumScience & Technology2002
Of Moths and Men by Judith HooperScience & Technology2002
Salt: A World History by Mark KurlanskyScience & Technology2002
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Dillon Dillon by Kate BanksYoung Adult Literature2002
This Lullaby by Sarah DessenYoung Adult Literature2002
America by E. R. FrankYoung Adult Literature2002
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol OatesYoung Adult Literature2002
My Dream of You by Nuala O'FaolainArt Seidenbaum Award2001
Crawling at Night by Nani PowerArt Seidenbaum Award2001
The Death of Vishnu by Manil SuriArt Seidenbaum Award2001
The Right Hand of Sleep by John WrayArt Seidenbaum Award2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia FraserBiography2001
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States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering by Stanley CohenCurrent Interest2001
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued by Ann CrittendenCurrent Interest2001
The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court by John W. DeanCurrent Interest2001
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By the Sea by Abdulrazak GurnahFiction2001
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice MunroFiction2001
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis MenandHistory2001
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver SacksScience & Technology2001
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The Seeing Stone - Arthur Trilogy, Book One by Kevin Crossley-HollandYoung Adult Literature2001
Damage by A. M. JenkinsYoung Adult Literature2001
Girlhearts by Norma Fox MazerYoung Adult Literature2001
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley NaidooYoung Adult Literature2001
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWittArt Seidenbaum Award2000
Sam the Cat: and Other Stories by Matthew KlamArt Seidenbaum Award2000
An Obedient Father by Akhil SharmaArt Seidenbaum Award2000
White Teeth by Zadie SmithArt Seidenbaum Award2000
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. BrandsBiography2000
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. EllisBiography2000
Mao: A Life by Philip ShortBiography2000
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West by Ian BurumaCurrent Interest2000
The Mysteries Within by Sherwin B. NulandCurrent Interest2000
Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey Into the Heart of Cuban Sports by S.l. PriceCurrent Interest2000
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael ChabonFiction2000
Equal Love by Peter Ho DaviesFiction2000
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Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim JudahHistory2000
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander KeyssarHistory2000
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Purple Cane Road by James Lee BurkeMystery/Thriller2000
Blood Rain by Michael DibdinMystery/Thriller2000
Shame the Devil by George P. PelecanosMystery/Thriller2000
Cold is the Grave by Peter RobinsonMystery/Thriller2000
Men in the Off Hours by Anne CarsonPoetry2000
The Ledge: Poems by Michael CollierPoetry2000
Some Ether: Poems by Nick FlynnPoetry2000
Pastoral: Poems by Carl PhillipsPoetry2000
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David BodanisScience & Technology2000
Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by Dennis OverbyeScience & Technology2000
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt RidleyScience & Technology2000
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl SabbaghScience & Technology2000
Forgotten Fire by Adam BagdasarianYoung Adult Literature2000
Many Stones by Carolyn ComanYoung Adult Literature2000
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanYoung Adult Literature2000
When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune by Lori Aurelia WilliamsYoung Adult Literature2000
By the Shore by Galaxy CrazeArt Seidenbaum Award1999
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan EnglanderArt Seidenbaum Award1999
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa LahiriArt Seidenbaum Award1999
Last Things by Jenny OffillArt Seidenbaum Award1999
My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith by Robert ClarkBiography1999
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita EislerBiography1999
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself by Jerome LovingBiography1999
Rembrandt's eyes by Simon SchamaBiography1999
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - A Woman's Journey by Leila AhmedCurrent Interest1999
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark BowdenCurrent Interest1999
Chosen by God: A Brother's Journey by Joshua HammerCurrent Interest1999
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. PosnerCurrent Interest1999
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus IIIFiction1999
Plainsong by Kent HarufFiction1999
Waiting by Ha JinFiction1999
Close Range by Annie ProulxFiction1999
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward BainHistory1999
The First World War by John KeeganHistory1999
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. KennedyHistory1999
The Holocaust in American Life by Peter NovickHistory1999
The Red Leaves of Night: Poems by David St. JohnPoetry1999
The Father of the Predicaments (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Heather McHughPoetry1999
The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Kathleen PeircePoetry1999
The Dreamhouse (Phoenix Poets Series) by Tom SleighPoetry1999
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Bernd HeinrichScience & Technology1999
The River by Edward HooperScience & Technology1999
Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution by Alison JollyScience & Technology1999
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon SinghScience & Technology1999
Skellig by David AlmondYoung Adult Literature1999
Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonYoung Adult Literature1999
Monster by Walter Dean MyersYoung Adult Literature1999
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya SonesYoung Adult Literature1999
Hunger by Lan Samantha ChangArt Seidenbaum Award1998
The Undiscovered Country by Samantha GillisonArt Seidenbaum Award1998
A Crowded Heart by Nicholas PapandreouArt Seidenbaum Award1998
Blue Bossa by Bart SchneiderArt Seidenbaum Award1998
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara GoldsmithBiography1998
A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 by Fintan O'TooleBiography1998
Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham RobbBiography1998
The Unknown Matisse by Hilary SpurlingBiography1998
Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (Modern Library Paperbacks) by William FinneganCurrent Interest1998
Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars by Cynthia GorneyCurrent Interest1998
On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School by Cristina RathboneCurrent Interest1998
American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory by Russ RymerCurrent Interest1998
Evening by Susan MinotFiction1998
Freedomland by Richard PriceFiction1998
I Married a Communist by Philip RothFiction1998
Death in Summer by William TrevorFiction1998
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira BerlinHistory1998
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. MorganHistory1998
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Kathy PeissHistory1998
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life by Nancy TomesHistory1998
Without: Poems by Donald HallPoetry1998
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems by Jim HarrisonPoetry1998
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W. S. MerwinPoetry1998
American Rush: Selected Poems by Maureen OwenPoetry1998
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character by Daniel J. KevlesScience & Technology1998
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon MawerScience & Technology1998
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. RamachandranScience & Technology1998
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by Pat ShipmanScience & Technology1998
Go and Come Back by Joan AbeloveYoung Adult Literature1998
In a Dark Wood by Michael CadnumYoung Adult Literature1998
Soldier's Heart by Gary PaulsenYoung Adult Literature1998
Holes by Louis SacharYoung Adult Literature1998
A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne BerneArt Seidenbaum Award1997
Round Rock by Michelle HunevenArt Seidenbaum Award1997
A Child Out of Alcatraz by Tara IsonArt Seidenbaum Award1997
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyArt Seidenbaum Award1997
Nazimova: A Biography by Gavin LambertBiography1997
Burning the Days: Recollection by James SalterBiography1997
Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan SchomBiography1997
Bogart by A.M. SperberBiography1997
The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture by Daniel HarrisCurrent Interest1997
Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall KennedyCurrent Interest1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon KrakauerCurrent Interest1997
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb by Bernard LefkowitzCurrent Interest1997
Reading in the Dark by Seamus DeaneFiction1997
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco GoldmanFiction1997
California's Over by Louis B. JonesFiction1997
The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939 by Saul FriedländerHistory1997
Sun Dancing by Geoffrey MoorhouseHistory1997
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge SchmemannHistory1997
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West by Peter N. StearnsHistory1997
Resurrection Update: Collected Poems, 1975-1997 by James GalvinPoetry1997
An Octave above Thunder (Poets, Penguin) by Carol MuskePoetry1997
Natal Command (Phoenix Poets Series) by Peter SacksPoetry1997
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications by David DeutschScience & Technology1997
Venus Revealed : A New Look Below the Clouds of our Mysterious Twin Planet by David Harry GrinspoonScience & Technology1997
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague by Richard RhodesScience & Technology1997
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament by Robert M. SapolskyScience & Technology1997
St. Burl's Obituary by Daniel AkstArt Seidenbaum Award1996
The Secret of the Bulls by Jose BernardoArt Seidenbaum Award1996
I Never Came to You in White by Judith FarrArt Seidenbaum Award1996
The Debt to Pleasure by John LanchesterArt Seidenbaum Award1996
Resurrection Man by Eoin McNameeArt Seidenbaum Award1996
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane MendelsohnArt Seidenbaum Award1996
The Veracruz Blues by Mark WinegardnerArt Seidenbaum Award1996
Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu by Simon CallowBiography1996
Tom : the unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle LeverichBiography1996
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthyBiography1996
Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett by Joan MellenBiography1996
An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm by Hannah PakulaBiography1996
A Life of Picasso, Volume 2: 1907-1917 by John RichardsonBiography1996
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox ButterfieldCurrent Interest1996
A Civil Action by Jonathan HarrCurrent Interest1996
Moving Violations by John HockenberryCurrent Interest1996
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard KlugerCurrent Interest1996
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk by Marc ParentCurrent Interest1996
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David QuammenCurrent Interest1996
The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA by Evan ThomasCurrent Interest1996
Every Man for Himself by Beryl BainbridgeFiction1996
The Ghost Road by Pat BarkerFiction1996
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea BarrettFiction1996
About Schmidt by Louis BegleyFiction1996
Tree of Heaven by R. C. BinstockFiction1996
Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy MartínezFiction1996
Open Heart by Abraham B. YehoshuaFiction1996
Europe: A History by Norman DaviesHistory1996
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Lawrence H. KeeleyHistory1996
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California by Kevin StarrHistory1996
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan TaylorHistory1996
the terrible stories (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille CliftonPoetry1996
Meadowlands by Louise GlückPoetry1996
Dream Of The Unified Field by Jorie GrahamPoetry1996
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses by Bill HendersonPoetry1996
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected by Stanley KunitzPoetry1996
The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996 (Phoenix Poets) by James McMichaelPoetry1996
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 by Robert PinskyPoetry1996
Wise Poison by David RivardPoetry1996
Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D. AczelScience & Technology1996
The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball by Hugh Aldersey-WilliamsScience & Technology1996
The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen L. BuchmannScience & Technology1996
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George JohnsonScience & Technology1996
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century by James Howard KunstlerScience & Technology1996
The Dying of the Trees by Charles E. LittleScience & Technology1996
The Point: And Other Stories by Charles D'AmbrosioArt Seidenbaum Award1995
Looking Through Glass by Mukul KesavanArt Seidenbaum Award1995
A Stone Boat by Andrew SolomonArt Seidenbaum Award1995
The Good Negress by A. J. VerdelleArt Seidenbaum Award1995
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda MaddoxBiography1995
Marie Curie: A Life by Susan QuinnBiography1995
Drinking the Rain: A Memoir by Alix Kates ShulmanBiography1995
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias WolffBiography1995
Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots by Nancy AbelmannCurrent Interest1995
We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy by Jeffrey B. AbramsonCurrent Interest1995
Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps by Sara McLanahanCurrent Interest1995
Dark Places by Kate GrenvilleFiction1995
Trinity Fields by Bradford MorrowFiction1995
Open Secrets by Alice MunroFiction1995
Felicia's Journey by William TrevorFiction1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John EgertonHistory1995
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory by Ian HackingHistory1995
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by David HollowayHistory1995
Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe by Robert JensenHistory1995
Song by Brigit Pegeen KellyPoetry1995
Split Horizon by Thomas LuxPoetry1995
City of salt by Gregory OrrPoetry1995
Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems by Gary SotoPoetry1995
The Alchemy of the Heavens by Ken CroswellScience & Technology1995
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio DamasioScience & Technology1995
An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver SacksScience & Technology1995
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert WrightScience & Technology1995
The Indian Chronicles by José BarreiroArt Seidenbaum Award1994
Essays in Love by Alain de BottonArt Seidenbaum Award1994
In Search of Bernabe by Graciela LimonArt Seidenbaum Award1994
Rodin: The Shape of Genius by Ruth ButlerBiography1994
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge by Gerald GuntherBiography1994
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. HedrickBiography1994
An Evil Cradling by Brian KeenanBiography1994
Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution by Harry V. JaffaCurrent Interest1994
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism by Katie RoipheCurrent Interest1994
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent StaplesCurrent Interest1994
The Moral Sense by James Q. WilsonCurrent Interest1994
While England Sleeps by David LeavittFiction1994
The Holder of the World by Bharati MukherjeeFiction1994
The Soloist by Mark SalzmanFiction1994
The Rifles by William T. VollmannFiction1994
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland BarberHistory1994
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John BoswellHistory1994
Antisemitism in America by Leonard DinnersteinHistory1994
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by George J. SanchezHistory1994
The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems by William EversonPoetry1994
Materialism by Jorie GrahamPoetry1994
Lost Country by Dan HowellPoetry1994
Bag 'O' Diamonds: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series) by Susan WheelerPoetry1994
Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science by Alan CromerScience & Technology1994
Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA by Robert PollackScience & Technology1994
Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. SapolskyScience & Technology1994
The End of Evolution by Peter WardScience & Technology1994
Come to Me: Stories by Amy BloomArt Seidenbaum Award1993
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelArt Seidenbaum Award1993
Mourning Doves: Stories by Judy TroyArt Seidenbaum Award1993
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserBiography1993
Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. KunhardtBiography1993
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb by William LanouetteBiography1993
The Real Anita Hill by David BrockCurrent Interest1993
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century by Paul KennedyCurrent Interest1993
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris LessingCurrent Interest1993
Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy ShiltsCurrent Interest1993
For Love by Sue MillerFiction1993
Rameau's Niece by Cathleen SchineFiction1993
Collected Stories by William TrevorFiction1993
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity by James C. CobbHistory1993
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 by Jane Hamilton-MerrittHistory1993
Rising in the West: the true story of an "Okie" family in search of the American dream by Dan MorganHistory1993
The Immobile Empire by Alain PeyrefitteHistory1993
Afterworld (Phoenix Poets Series) by Christine GarrenPoetry1993
Legends from Camp by Lawson Fusao InadaPoetry1993
Hotel Insomnia by Charles SimicPoetry1993
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence by Daniel CrevierScience & Technology1993
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion by Gary TaubesScience & Technology1993
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. WilsonScience & Technology1993
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa1993
1959 by Thulani DavisArt Seidenbaum Award1992
She's Come Undone by Wally LambArt Seidenbaum Award1992
After Moondog by Jane ShapiroArt Seidenbaum Award1992
Marine Life by Linda SvendsenArt Seidenbaum Award1992
A Prophet with Honor : The Billy Graham Story by William MartinBiography1992
Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edwin Haviland MillerBiography1992
Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin by Deena RosenbergBiography1992
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance by Kenneth SilvermanBiography1992
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne EdsallCurrent Interest1992
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis FukuyamaCurrent Interest1992
Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America by James Davison HunterCurrent Interest1992
Den of Thieves by James B. StewartCurrent Interest1992
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall KenanFiction1992
Daughters by Paule MarshallFiction1992
Time and Tide by Edna O'BrienFiction1992
A Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyFiction1992
The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics by Greg MitchellHistory1992
Frontiers : the epic of South Africa's creation and the tragedy of the Xhosa people by Noel MostertHistory1992
Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China by Robert P. NewmanHistory1992
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People by Ramon Eduardo RuizHistory1992
The Wild Iris by Louise GlückPoetry1992
The Father by Sharon OldsPoetry1992
Bread Without Sugar: Poems by Gerald SternPoetry1992
Wartime Lies by Louis BegleyArt Seidenbaum Award1991
Ten Seconds by Louis EdwardsArt Seidenbaum Award1991
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney OttoArt Seidenbaum Award1991
Lives of the Saints by Nino RicciArt Seidenbaum Award1991
O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance by Benita EislerBiography1991
Road Song by Natalie KuszBiography1991
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor by Willard Sterne RandallBiography1991
A Life of Picasso, Volume 1: 1881-1906 by John RichardsonBiography1991
The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office by Alan EhrenhaltCurrent Interest1991
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas LemannCurrent Interest1991
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America by Shelby SteeleCurrent Interest1991
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel YerginCurrent Interest1991
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosFiction1991
Age of Iron by J. M. CoetzeeFiction1991
A Woman's Story by Annie ErnauxFiction1991
The Acacia by Claude SimonFiction1991
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era by Kevin BrownlowHistory1991
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 by Philip A. KuhnHistory1991
Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. TuckerHistory1991
Sudden Dreams by George EvansPoetry1991
Region of Unlikeness (American Poetry Series) by Jorie GrahamPoetry1991
Star Ledger (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Lynda HullPoetry1991
The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 by Charles WrightPoetry1991
The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence by William CalvinScience & Technology1991
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert KanigelScience & Technology1991
Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas by Sy MontgomeryScience & Technology1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis OverbyeScience & Technology1991
Reaching Tin River by Thea AstleyFiction1990
The Plains of Passage by Jean M. AuelFiction1990
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice MunroFiction1990
Mother's Girl by Elaine FeinsteinFiction1989
The City of Marvels by Eduardo MendozaFiction1989
Midnight Sweets by Bette PesetskyFiction1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanFiction1989
Showdown by Jorge AmadoFiction1988
Libra by Don DeLilloFiction1988
The Fifth Child by Doris LessingFiction1988
Moon Tiger by Penelope LivelyFiction1988
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel AllendeFiction1987
That Night by Alice McDermottFiction1987
You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol OatesFiction1987
A Summons to Memphis by Peter TaylorFiction1987
The Old Gringo by Carlos FuentesFiction1986
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison KeillorFiction1986
A Perfect Spy by John le CarréFiction1986
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram SethFiction1986
The Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerFiction1986
Empire of the Sun by J. G. BallardFiction1985
Slow Dancing by Elizabeth BenedictFiction1985
Hotel du Lac by Anita BrooknerFiction1985
Annie John by Jamaica KincaidFiction1985
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul BellowFiction1984
Democracy by Joan DidionFiction1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet DoerrFiction1984
The Witches of Eastwick by John UpdikeFiction1984
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFiction1983
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia MarquezFiction1983
The Little Drummer Girl by John le CarréFiction1983
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris MurdochFiction1983
Sixty Stories by Donald BarthelmeFiction1982
The Dean's December by Saul BellowFiction1982
The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis SingerFiction1982
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne TylerFiction1982
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth BowenFiction1981
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray BradburyFiction1981
Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark HelprinFiction1981
Zuckerman Unbound by Philip RothFiction1981
Dad by William WhartonFiction1981
Darkness Visible by William GoldingFiction1980
Smiley's People by John le CarréFiction1980
Bellefleur by Joyce Carol OatesFiction1980
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleFiction1980

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The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. (English, Member-written)
This year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored outstanding literary achievement in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Each winner receives a $1,000 cash award. (English, Member-written)

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