described<\/a> as \u201cless a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation.\u201d <\/p>\nIn addition to the achievement awards, the Book Prizes recognize titles in 13 categories: audiobooks, autobiographical prose (the Christopher Isherwood Prize), biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award), graphic novel\/comics, history, mystery\/thriller, poetry, science fiction, science and technology and young adult literature. Each category\u2019s finalists and winners are chosen by panels of writers specializing in that genre. <\/p>\n
For more information about the Book Prizes, including the complete list of finalists, visit latimes.com\/BookPrizes.<\/p>\n
Robert Kirsch Award<\/p>\n
Amy Tan<\/p>\n
Innovator\u2019s Award<\/p>\n
We Need Diverse Books<\/p>\n
The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose<\/p>\n
Adam Ross, \u201cPlayworld: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction<\/p>\n
Andy Anderegg, \u201cPlum\u201d<\/p>\n
Krystelle Bamford, \u201cIdle Grounds: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Addie E. Citchens, \u201cDominion: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Justin Haynes, \u201cIbis: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Saou Ichikawa translated by Polly Barton, \u201cHunchback: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Achievement in Audiobook Production, presented by Audible<\/p>\n
Molly Jong-Fast (narrator), Matie Argiropoulos (producer); \u201cHow to Lose Your Mother\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Mott, Ronald Peet, and JD Jackson (narrators), Diane McKiernan (producer); \u201cPeople Like Us: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
James Aaron Oh (narrator), Linda Korn (producer); \u201cThe Emperor of Gladness: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Imani Perry (narrator), Suzanne Mitchell (producer); \u201cBlack in Blues\u201d<\/p>\n
Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Steve West, and Jim Seybert (narrators), Kelly Gildea (producer); \u201cThe Correspondent: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Biography<\/p>\n
Joe Dunthorne, \u201cChildren of Radium: A Buried Inheritance\u201d<\/p>\n
Ekow Eshun, \u201cThe Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruth Franklin, \u201cThe Many Lives of Anne Frank\u201d<\/p>\n
Beth Macy, \u201cPaper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America\u201d<\/p>\n
Amanda Vaill, \u201cPride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution\u201d<\/p>\n
Current Interest<\/p>\n
Jeanne Carstensen, \u201cA Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis\u201d<\/p>\n
Stefan Fatsis, \u201cUnabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary\u201d<\/p>\n
Brian Goldstone, \u201cThere Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America\u201d<\/p>\n
Gardiner Harris, \u201cNo More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan Thomas, \u201cWhen It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World\u201d<\/p>\n
Fiction<\/p>\n
Tod Goldberg, \u201cOnly Way Out: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen Graham Jones, \u201cThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter\u201d<\/p>\n
Mia McKenzie, \u201cThese Heathens: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s Felipe Solano translated by Will Vanderhyden, \u201cGloria: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryan Washington, \u201cPalaver: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Graphic Novel\/Comics<\/p>\n
Eagle Valiant Brosi, \u201cBlack Cohosh\u201d<\/p>\n
Jaime Hernandez, \u201cLife Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael D. Kennedy, \u201cMilk White Steed\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee Lai, \u201cCannon\u201d<\/p>\n
Carol Tyler, \u201cThe Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief\u201d<\/p>\n
History<\/p>\n
Char Adams, \u201cBlack-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore\u201d<\/p>\n
Bench Ansfield, \u201cBorn in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City\u201d<\/p>\n
Jennifer Clapp, \u201cTitans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters\u201d<\/p>\n
Eli Erlick, \u201cBefore Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron G. Fountain Jr., \u201cHigh School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America\u201d<\/p>\n
Mystery\/Thriller<\/p>\n
Megan Abbott, \u201cEl Dorado Drive\u201d<\/p>\n
Ace Atkins, \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Lou Berney, \u201cCrooks: A Novel About Crime and Family\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Connelly, \u201cThe Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
S.A. Cosby, \u201cKing of Ashes: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Poetry<\/p>\n
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, \u201cThe New Economy\u201d<\/p>\n
Chet\u2019la Sebree, \u201cBlue Opening: Poems\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard Siken, \u201cI Do Know Some Things\u201d<\/p>\n
Devon Walker-Figueroa, \u201cLazarus Species: Poems\u201d<\/p>\n
Allison Benis White, \u201cA Magnificent Loneliness\u201d<\/p>\n
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction<\/p>\n
Stephen Graham Jones, \u201cThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan Kurella, \u201cThe Death of Mountains\u201d<\/p>\n
Nnedi Okorafor, \u201cDeath of the Author: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Oyebanji, \u201cEsperance\u201d<\/p>\n
Silvia Park, \u201cLuminous: A Novel\u201d<\/p>\n
Science & Technology<\/p>\n
Mariah Blake, \u201cThey Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter Brannen, \u201cThe Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World\u201d<\/p>\n
Karen Hao, \u201cEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura Poppick, \u201cStrata: Stories from Deep Time\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan Thomas, \u201cWhen It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World\u201d<\/p>\n
Young Adult Literature<\/p>\n
K. Ancrum, \u201cThe Corruption of Hollis Brown\u201d<\/p>\n
Idris Goodwin, \u201cKing of the Neuro Verse\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamie Jo Hoang, \u201cMy Mother, the Mermaid Chaser\u201d<\/p>\n
Trung Le Nguyen, \u201cAngelica and the Bear Prince\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah V. Sawyerr, \u201cTruth Is: A Novel in Verse\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday. Writer-curator Ekow Eshun is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[150666,150668,2701,150671,3190,150672,146,501,150669,150667,85,46,150670,140007,27782,20877,789,2711],"class_list":{"0":"post-297658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-a-novel","9":"tag-amy-tan","10":"tag-award","11":"tag-christopher-isherwood-prize","12":"tag-death","13":"tag-ekow-eshun","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-family","16":"tag-fiction-category","17":"tag-finalist","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-many-life","21":"tag-michael-connelly","22":"tag-narrator","23":"tag-producer","24":"tag-story","25":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}