The Los Angeles Times announced finalists in 10 categories for their annual book prizes, to be awarded April 9. James Patterson will receive their Innovators Award “for his work to inspire a lifelong love of reading in children and his support of independent bookstores nationwide.” Among the nominees are: Fiction Anne Enright, The Green Road (Norton) James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (Little, Brown) Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles (Random House) Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House Press) Helen Phillips, Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt) First Fiction Sarah Gerard, Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio) Ben Metcalf, Against the Country (Random House) […]