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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2013

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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2013

The 34th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on Friday, April 11, 2014, in a public ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The best books of 2013 were recognized in 10 categories, along with the winners of Innovator’s and Robert Kirsch awards.

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2013 Winners

 

Innovator's Award
John Green

Kirsch Award
Susan Straight

Biography
BOLIVAR: AMERICAN LIBERATOR by Marie Arana (Simon & Schuster)

Current Interest
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink (Crown)

Fiction
A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)

Graphic Novel/Comics
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE by Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics)

History
THE SLEEPWALKERS: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (HarperCollins)

Mystery/Thriller
THE CUCKOO'S CALLING by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown & Company)

Poetry
COLLECTED POEMS by Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press)

Science & Technology
COUNTDOWN: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman (Little, Brown & Company)

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
WE NEED NEW NAMES by NoViolet Bulawayo (Reagan Arthur Books)

Young Adult Literature
BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang (First Second/Macmillan)
 



2013 Finalists

 

Innovator's Award
John Green

Kirsch Award
Susan Straight

Biography

  • BOLIVAR: AMERICAN LIBERATOR by Marie Arana (Simon & Schuster)
  • WILSON by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
  • THE RED MAN'S BONES: George Catlin, Artist and Showman, by Benita Eisler (W. W. Norton and Company)
  • COUNTRY GIRL: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien (Little, Brown & Company)
  • AMERICAN MIRROR: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, by Deborah Solomon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Current Interest

  • FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink (Crown)
  • THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE by David Finkel (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • DETROIT: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff (The Penguin Press)
  • MANIFEST INJUSTICE: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom, by Barry Siegel (Henry Holt and Company)
  • GOING CLEAR: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)

Fiction

  • PERCIVAL EVERETT BY VIRGIL RUSSELL by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
  • THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS by Claire Messud (Knopf)
  • A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
  • SPECTACLE: Stories by Susan Steinberg (Graywolf Press)
  • THE MAID'S VERSION by Daniel Woodrell (Little, Brown & Company)

Graphic Novel/Comics

  • INCIDENTS IN THE NIGHT: Volume 1 by David B. (Uncivilized Books)
  • HAND-DRYING IN AMERICA: And Other Stories, by Ben Katchor (Pantheon)
  • TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE by Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics)
  • THE END by Anders Nilsen (Fantagraphics)
  • THE GREAT WAR: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by Joe Sacco (W. W. Norton and Company)

History

  • FDR AND THE JEWS by Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman (Belknap Press of Harvard University)
  • THE SLEEPWALKERS: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (HarperCollins)
  • THE SEARCHERS: The Making of an American Legend, by Glenn Frankel (Bloomsbury USA)
  • THE BULLY PULPIT: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
  • THE INTERNAL ENEMY: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W. W. Norton and Company)

Mystery/Thriller

  • HOUR OF THE RED GOD by Richard Crompton (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • SYCAMORE ROW by John Grisham (Doubleday Books)
  • THE RAGE by Gene Kerrigan (Europa Editions)
  • THE CUCKOO'S CALLING by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown & Company)
  • The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach (Viking)

Poetry

  • THE INSIDE OF AN APPLE by Joshua Beckman (Wave Books)
  • HELLO, THE ROSES by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions)
  • COLLECTED POEMS by Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press)
  • ON GHOSTS by Elizabeth Robinson (Solid Objects)
  • DEBTS & LESSONS by Lynn Xu (Omnidawn)

Science & Technology

  • SOCIAL: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect, BY Matthew D. Lieberman (Crown)
  • BRAINWASHED: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld (Basic Books)
  • ANIMAL WISE: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell (Crown)
  • SCATTER, ADAPT, AND REMEMBER: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, by Annalee Newitz (Doubleday Books)
  • COUNTDOWN: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman (Little, Brown & Company)

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

  • WE NEED NEW NAMES by NoViolet Bulawayo (Reagan Arthur Books)
  • MIRA CORPORA by Jeff Jackson (Two Dollar Radio)
  • THE NIGHT GUEST by Fiona McFarlane (Faber & Faber)
  • I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE by Jamie Quatro (Grove Press)
  • THE PERIPATETIC COFFIN AND OTHER STORIES by Ethan Rutherford (Ecco/HarperCollins)

Young Adult Literature

  • MORTAL FIRE by Elizabeth Knox (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  • WHAT THE HEART KNOWS: Chants, Charms & Blessings, by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
  • LOCKWOOD & CO: THE SCREAMING STAIRCASE by Jonathan Stroud (Disney-Hyperion)
  • BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang (First Second/Macmillan)