The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced finalists in several categories. Winners will be announced on April 17, and you can find the full list of nominees here.
In addition, Amy Tan will be given the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The Innovator’s Award will go to We Need Diverse Books. Adam Ross’s Playworld won the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose.
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Plum by Andy Anderegg
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
Ibis by Justin Haynes
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated by Polly Barton
Biography
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun
The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill
Current Interest
A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis by Jeanne Carstensen
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary by Stefan Fatsis
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Fiction
Only Way Out by Tod Goldberg
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
Gloria by Andrés Felipe Solano, translated by Will Vanderhyden
Palaver by Bryan Washington
History
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams (available to sample in our Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter anthology)
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield
Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters by Jennifer Clapp
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 by Eli Erlick
High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America by Aaron G. Fountain Jr.
Young Adult Literature
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin
My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser by Jamie Jo Hoang
Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen
Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr
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