Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest

Roxanna Asgarian

Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

Christina Sharpe

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

Raja Shehadeh

Dahlia Lithwick

The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

Anand Giridharadas

The Storm is Here: An American Crucible

Luke Mogelson

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Sarah Kendzior

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

Adam Schiff

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Andrea Elliott

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos

Isabel Wilkerson

Brittany K. Barnett

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

Christine Montross

Emily Bazelon

Ronan Farrow

Rachel Louise Snyder

The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California

Mark Arax

Dina Nayeri

Francisco Cantú

Nancy MacLean

James Forman Jr.

The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America

Rick Wartzman

Lauren Markham

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Svetlana Alexievich

Robert F. Worth

Ben Rawlence

Jane Mayer

Matthew Desmond

Sarah Chayes

Joe Domanick

Sandy Tolan

Sam Quinones

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century

Stephen Witt

Jeff Hobbs

Atul Gawande

Héctor Tobar

Bryan Stevenson

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Matt Taibbi

Sheri Fink

Charlie LeDuff

Lawrence Wright

Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom

Barry Siegel

David Finkel

Katherine Boo

Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds

Jim Sterba

On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future

Karen Elliott House

Steve Coll

The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

Jake Tapper

Daniel Kahneman

Ioan Grillo

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

Alex Bellos

Pakistan: A Hard Country

Anatol Lieven

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

Seth Mnookin

Michael Lewis

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera

Patti Smith

The Promise: President Obama, Year One

Jonathan Alter

War

Sebastian Junger

Dave Eggers

Dave Cullen

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

Tracy Kidder

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

T.R. Reid

Barton Gellman

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor

Steve Coll

Jane Mayer

Dexter Filkins

Elizabeth D. Samet

Ishmael Beah

The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

Tom Bissell

The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Ronald Brownstein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

Ian Buruma

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Strange Piece of Paradise

Terri Jentz

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

Alicia Drake

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Douglas Brinkley

Anthony Shadid

Kurt Eichenwald

Steve Bogira

Still Looking: Essays on American Art

John Updike

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

Jonathan Harr

Evan Wright

Edward Conlon

Michael Dirda

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Karen Armstrong

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Ann Patchett

Ross Terrill

Carlo Rotella

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Anthony Swofford

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer

Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11

Gerald Posner

Judith Levine

Samantha Power

Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space, and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril

Timothy Ferris

The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention

Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (editors)

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

Kevin Phillips

Barbara Ehrenreich

States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering

Stanley Cohen

The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued

Ann Crittenden

The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court

John W. Dean

Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore

Ron Powers

Frances FitzGerald

Patrick Tierney

Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports

S.L. Price

The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West

Ian Buruma

The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body

Sherwin B. Nuland

Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer)

Leila Ahmed

Richard A. Posner

Mark Bowden

Joshua Hammer

Philip Gourevitch

Russ Rymer

Cynthia Gorney

William Finnegan

On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School

Cristina Rathbone

Anne Fadiman

Jon Krakauer

Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb

Bernard Lefkowitz

Race, Crime, and the Law

Randall Kennedy

The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture

Daniel Harris

Peter Maass

Jonathan Harr

Fox Butterfield

Richard Kluger

Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence

John Hockenberry

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

David Quammen

The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA

Evan Thomas

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk

Marc Parent

Gregory Howard Williams

Michael J. Piore

Nancy Abelmann and John Lie

Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps

Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur

We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy

Jeffrey Abramson

Henry Kissinger

Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question

Harry V. Jaffa

Brent Staples

The Moral Sense

James Q. Wilson

The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus

Katie Roiphe

Peter Skerry

Doris May Lessing

Randy Shilts

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

Paul Kennedy

The Real Anita Hill

David Brock

Francis Fukuyama

Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall

James Davison Hunter

James B. Stewart

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

Pico Iyer

E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Shelby Steele

Daniel Yergin

Nicholas Lemann

The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office

Alan Ehrenhalt

O. B. Hardison, Jr.

Václav Havel and Paul Wilson

My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

Rian Malan

The Blind Watchmaker

Kevin Phillips

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

Rick Atkinson

Taylor Branch

William Greider

Richard Dawkins

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White

Joseph Lelyveld

Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton

Jane Jacobs

Walker Percy

Jonathan Schell

Jacobo Timerman

Harrison Salisbury