Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles Times | FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: April 30th - May 1, 2011 USC Campus

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2012 Honorees

• H.W. Brands / The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace (Doubleday)
• Robert Caro / The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf)
• Alice Kessler-Harris / A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (Bloomsbury Press)
• David Nasaw / The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (Penguin Press)
• R.J. Smith / The One: The Life and Music of James Brown (Gotham Books)

• Katherine Boo / Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)
• Steve Coll / Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Penguin Press)
• Karen Elliott House / On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines – and Future (Knopf)
• Jim Sterba / Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds (Crown)
• Jake Tapper / The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Little, Brown and Company)

• Jami Attenberg / The Middlesteins: A Novel (Grand Central Publishing)
• Michael Chabon / Telegraph Avenue (HarperCollins Publishers / Harper)
• Ben Fountain / Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (HarperCollins Publishers / Ecco)
• Lauren Groff / Arcadia (Voice/Hyperion)
• Lydia Millet / Magnificence (W.W. Norton & Company)

• Alison Bechdel / Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Leela Corman / Unterzakhn (Schocken)
• Sammy Harkham / Everything Together: Collected Stories (PictureBox)
• Spain Rodriguez / Cruisin’ With the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote (Fantagraphics)
• Chris Ware / Building Stories (Pantheon)

• John Barry / Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (Viking)
• George Black / Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone (St. Martin’s Press)
• Fergus M. Bordewich / America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union (Simon & Schuster)
• Amy S. Greenberg / A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (Knopf)
• Geoffrey Kabaservice / Rule & Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Oxford University Press)

• Tana French / Broken Harbor (Viking)
• Nick Harkaway / Angelmaker (Knopf)
• Fuminori Nakamura / The Thief (Soho Crime)
• Chris Pavone / The Expats (Crown)
• Ariel S. Winter / The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime)

• Louise Glück / Poems 1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Rowan Ricardo Phillips / The Ground: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• D. A. Powell / Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems (Graywolf Press)
• Bin Ramke / Aerial (Omnidawn)
• Cole Swensen / Gravesend (New California Poetry) (University of California Press)

• Susan Cain / Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Crown)
• George Dyson / Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Pantheon)
• Jonathan Gottschall / The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Nate Silver / The Signal and the Noise: Why so Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t (Penguin Press)
• Florence Williams / Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (W.W. Norton & Company)

• David Abrams / Fobbit (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, Inc.)
• Kevin P. Keating / The Natural Order of Things (Aqueous Books)
• Lydia Netzer / Shine Shine Shine (St. Martin’s Press)
• Maggie Shipstead / Seating Arrangements (Knopf)
• Robin Sloan / Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• Paolo Bacigalupi / The Drowned Cities (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers)
• A.S. King / Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers)
• Martine Leavitt / My Book of Life by Angel (Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers)
• Matthew Quick / Boy 21 (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers)
• Elizabeth Wein / Code Name Verity (Disney-Hyperion)