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The finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today. The awards recognize outstanding literary achievements across 13 categories, ranging from mystery and sci-fi to biography and graphic novels. Winners will be revealed on April 17.
Major Individual Honorees
- Robert Kirsch Award (Lifetime Achievement): Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club author is being honored for her body of work exploring multicultural identity and the immigrant experience.
- Innovator’s Award: We Need Diverse Books. Recognized for their massive impact on the industry; since 2014, children’s books by authors of color in the U.S. have risen from 8% to 47%.
- The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: Adam Ross for his novel Playworld.
2026 CATEGORY FINALISTS
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
- Andy Anderegg, Plum
- Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds: A Novel
- Addie E. Citchens, Dominion: A Novel
- Justin Haynes, Ibis: A Novel
- Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton), Hunchback: A Novel
Fiction
- Tod Goldberg, Only Way Out: A Novel
- Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- Mia McKenzie, These Heathens: A Novel
- Andrés Felipe Solano (trans. Will Vanderhyden), Gloria: A Novel
- Bryan Washington, Palaver: A Novel
Mystery/Thriller
- Megan Abbott, El Dorado Drive
- Ace Atkins, Everybody Wants to Rule the World: A Novel
- Lou Berney, Crooks: A Novel About Crime and Family
- Michael Connelly, The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel
- S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes: A Novel
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
- Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- Jordan Kurella, The Death of Mountains
- Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author: A Novel
- Adam Oyebanji, Esperance
- Silvia Park, Luminous: A Novel
Biography
- Joe Dunthorne, Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
- Ekow Eshun, The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
- Ruth Franklin, The Many Lives of Anne Frank
- Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
- Amanda Vaill, Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
History
- Char Adams, Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
- Bench Ansfield, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
- Jennifer Clapp, Titans of Industrial Agriculture
- Eli Erlick, Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950
- Aaron G. Fountain Jr., High School Students Unite!
Science & Technology
- Mariah Blake, They Poisoned the World
- Peter Brannen, The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
- Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time
- Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns
Graphic Novel/Comics
- Eagle Valiant Brosi, Black Cohosh
- Jaime Hernandez, Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection
- Michael D. Kennedy, Milk White Steed
- Lee Lai, Cannon
- Carol Tyler, The Ephemerata
Poetry
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi, The New Economy
- Chet’la Sebree, Blue Opening: Poems
- Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things
- Devon Walker-Figueroa, Lazarus Species: Poems
- Allison Benis White, A Magnificent Loneliness
Young Adult Literature
- K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown
- Idris Goodwin, King of the Neuro Verse
- Jamie Jo Hoang, My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser
- Trung Le Nguyen, Angelica and the Bear Prince
- Hannah V. Sawyerr, Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
Achievement in Audiobook Production
- How to Lose Your Mother (Molly Jong-Fast, Matie Argiropoulos)
- People Like Us: A Novel (Jason Mott, Ronald Peet, JD Jackson, Diane McKiernan)
- The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel (James Aaron Oh, Linda Korn)
- Black in Blues (Imani Perry, Suzanne Mitchell)
- The Correspondent: A Novel (Ensemble cast, Kelly Gildea)
What do y'all think of the lists? Any snubs you've noticed or favorites you're rooting for?
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