2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners & Finalists
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Biography
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Winner
- Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (Random House)
Runners Up
- Miranda Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Knopf)
- Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (Random House)
- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir (TWELVE/Hachette Book Group)
- Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Random House)
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Current Interest
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Winner
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company)
Runners Up
- Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon & Schuster)
- Sebastian Junger, War (TWELVE/Hachette Book Group)
- Joe Nocera & Bethany McLean, All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Portfolio/Penguin Group)
- Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco/HarperCollins)
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Fiction
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Winner
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
Runners Up
- Rick Bass, Nashville Chrome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Richard Bausch, Something is Out There: Stories (Knopf)
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Frederick Reiken, Day for Night (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
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Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
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Winner
- Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Runners Up
- Leslie Jamison, The Gin Closet (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
- Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You (Counterpoint)
- Christine Sneed, Portraits of a Few People I’ve Made Cry: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press)
- Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters (St. Martin’s Press)
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Graphic Novel
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Winner
- Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books)
Runners Up
- Dash Shaw, Bodyworld (Pantheon)
- Karl Stevens, The Lodger (KSA Publishing)
- C. Tyler, You’ll Never Know, Book Two: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics)
- Jim Woodring, Weathercraft (Fantagraphics)
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History
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Winner
- Thomas Powers,The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
Runners Up
- Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (The Penguin Press)
- John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq (W. W. Norton & Company and The New Press)
- Susan Dunn, Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought To Change the Democratic Party (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- Steven Solomon,Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (HarperCollins)
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Mystery / Thriller
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Winner
- Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)
Runners Up
- Tana French, Faithful Place (Viking)
- Laura Lippman, I’d Know You Anywhere (William Morrow)
- Stuart Neville, Collusion (SoHo Press)
- Kelli Stanley, City of Dragons (Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book)
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Poetry
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Winner
- Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company)
Runners Up
- Henri Cole, Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Yehoshua November, God’s Optimism (Main Street Rag)
- Craig Santos Perez, From Unincorporated Territory {Saina}, (Omnidawn)
- Ed Roberson, To See the Earth Before the End of the World, (Wesleyan University Press)
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Science & Technology
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Winner
- Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company)
Runners Up
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner)
- Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury USA)
- Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books/HarperCollins)
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown)
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Young Adult Literature
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Winner
- Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
Runners Up
- Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science (Clarion Books)
- Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)
- Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Disney/Hyperion Books for Children)
- Rick Yancey, The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist) (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
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2010 Robert Kirsch Award
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Winner
- Beverly Cleary (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
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2010 Innovator’s Award
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