Awards search:LA Times Book Prize

Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63

by Taylor Branch
Paperback, 1989
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Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer
Paperback, 2003
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis
Paperback, 2002
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A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley
Paperback, 2004
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Atonement

by Ian McEwan
Paperback, 2003
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand
Paperback, 2002
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The Accidental Tourist

by Anne Tyler
Paperback, 2002
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon
Paperback, 2004
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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy
Hardcover, 1997
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The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri
Paperback, 2004
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Waiting

by Ha Jin
Paperback, 2000
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Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow
Paperback, 2005
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1999
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A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry
Paperback, 1997
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Son Of The Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn

by Evan S. Connell
Paperback, 2005
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The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan
Paperback, 2006
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Der Vorleser

by Bernhard Schlink
Paperback, 1999
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera
Paperback, 2005
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt
Paperback, 1999
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

by Anne Fadiman
Paperback, 2012
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White Teeth

by Zadie Smith
Paperback, 2000
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Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Paperback, 2005
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon
Paperback, 2000
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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen
Paperback, 2010
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Empire of the Sun

by J. G. Ballard
Paperback, 2005
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

by Philip Gourevitch
Paperback, 1999
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Brick Lane

by Monica Ali
Paperback, 2003
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Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

by Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback, 2005
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Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally
Paperback, 1994
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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 2003
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 1996
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The Debt to Pleasure

by John Lanchester
Paperback, 2015
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The Master

by Colm Tóibín
Paperback, 2005
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Master Of The Senate

by Robert A. Caro
Paperback, 2003
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Means of Ascent

by Robert A. Caro
Paperback, 1991
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Diplomacy

by Henry Kissinger
Paperback, 1995
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Hell to Pay

by George Pelecanos
Paperback, 2003
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John Adams

by David McCullough
Paperback, 2002
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

by H. W. Brands
Paperback, 2002
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Portable Professor

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

by Louis Menand
Paperback, 2002
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Samuel Pepys

by Claire Tomalin
Paperback, 2012
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The Lady In The Lake

by Raymond Chandler
CD audiobook, 2011
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Philip Marlowe (4)

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Paperback, 1996
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Gilead

by Marilynne Robinson
Paperback, 2006
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The Human Stain

by Philip Roth
Paperback, 2001
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A Perfect Spy

by John Le Carré
CD audiobook, 2014-08-01
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A Perfect Spy

by John Le Carré
CD audiobook, 2012
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A Perfect Spy

by John Le Carré
CD audiobook, 2007-10-04
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De amor y de sombra

by Isabel Allende
Paperback, 1989
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