Awards search:LA Times Book Prize

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco
Paperback, 1983
Tags
fiction, translated, ftppl, tpb
Call number
853/.914 19

A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley
Paperback, 2003
Tags
fiction, ftppl, tpb
Call number
813/.54 20

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon
Paperback, 2004
Tags
fiction, mystery, protagonist on the spectrum, tpb
Call number
813

Salt : a world history

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, food, food history, salt, tpb, can't find our copy
Call number
553.63209

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan
Paperback, 1990
Tags
fiction, family saga, chinese, chinese american, mmpb
Call number
813.54

Galileo's Daughter: A historical memoir of science, faith, and love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, biography, galileo, tpb
Call number
520.92 B 21

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon
Paperback, 2001
Tags
fiction, golems, comic books, superheroes, wwii, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Call number
813.54

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark

by Carl Sagan
Paperback, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, science, rationality, tpb
Call number
001.9 20

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a chemical boyhood

by Oliver W. Sacks
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
memoir, chemistry, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
540.92

The Code Book: The evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography

by Simon Singh
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, cryptography, hb
Call number
652.809 21

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, history, europe, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
940 20

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
153 21

In the Heart of the Sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, whaling, disasters, moby dick, tpb
Call number
910.916

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri
Paperback, 1982
Tags
poetry, epic poetry, translated, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
The Divine Comedy (1)
Call number
851.1

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven paradoxical tales

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, neurology, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
616.8 20

Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, human biology, tpb
Call number
599.93/5 21

Lake Wobegon Days

by Garrison Keillor
Paperback, 1986
Tags
fiction, humor, ftppl, mmpb
Series
Lake Wobegon (1)
Call number
813/.54 19

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

by John Boswell
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, lgbtq, history, european history, europe, hb, ftppl
Call number
306.76/6/094 20

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, biology, tpb
Call number
573.2 20

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and adventures with wolf-birds

by Bernd Heinrich
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, birds, animal behavior, animal intelligence, corvids, ravens, tpb
Call number
598.864

The Beak of the Finch: A story of evolution in our time

by Jonathan Weiner
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, birds, galapagos, darwin's finches, pulitzer prize, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
598.8830438

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom

by Sean B. Carroll
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
biology, evolution, genetics, evo devo, hb
Call number
571.85

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the evolution of bird flight

by Pat Shipman
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, biology, paleontology, evolution, birds, archaeopteryx, hb
Call number
568.22

The Blind Watchmaker

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
576.82

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1991
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, mmpb
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Call number
813.54 21

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1991
Tags
graphic novel, history, biography, wwii, holocaust, tpb
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Call number
741.5/973 21

The First Word: The search for the origins of language

by Christine Kenneally
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, origin of language, tpb
Call number
400

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
fantasy, ya, hugo winner, hb
Call number
823.914

Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life

by Carl Zimmer
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, biology, microbiology, e. coli, bacteria, hb
Call number
579.342

Nation

by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
fantasy, survival, coming of age, islands, hb
Call number
823.914

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

by Richard Holmes
Paperback, 2010
Tags
history, history of science, biography, tpb
Call number
509.4109033

Naming Nature: The clash between instinct and science

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biology, taxonomy, history of science, tpb
Call number
570.14

Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, tpb, new orleans, hurricane katrina, ftpml
Call number
305.892/7076335

Cold: Adventures in the world's frozen places

by Bill Streever
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, natural history, cold, arctic, antarctica, hb
Call number
910.911

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, biography, medicine, hb, ftpml
Call number
616.02774092

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan
Paperback, 2011
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, tpb, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Series
Goon Squad (1)
Call number
813.54

Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

by Susan Cain
Ebook, 2012
Tags
unread, nonfiction, sociology, introverts, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
155.2/32

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love & fallout

by Lauren Redniss
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
graphic novel, biography, marie curie, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
540.922

The Information: A history, a theory, a flood

by James Gleick
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, information, information theory, popular-level, tpb
Call number
020.9

Is That a Fish in your Ear? : The amazing adventure of translation

by David Bellos
Paperback, 2012
Tags
translation, linguistics, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
418.02

Are you my Mother? : A comic drama

by Alison Bechdel
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
graphic novel, memoir, hb
Call number
741.5/973B

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore

by Robin Sloan
Paperback, 2012
Tags
fiction, secret society, tpb
Series
Mr. Penumbra (1)
Call number
813/.6

The Signal and the Noise: Why so many predictions fail -- but some don't

by Nate Silver
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, statistics, bayes theorem, big data, prediction, politics, baseball, hb
Call number
519.542

We Need New Names

by NoViolet Bulawayo
Paperback, 2014
Tags
fiction, zimbabwe, immigration, tpb
Call number
823/.92

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paperback, 2013
Tags
religion, scientology, history, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
299.936

The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, extinction, mass extinction, arc, pulitzer, pulitzer prize
Call number
576.84

Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
criminal justice, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
353.4

Rust: The longest war

by Jonathan Waldman
Paperback, 2015
Tags
microhistory, engineering, chemistry, rust, corrosion, tpb
Call number
620.11223

SPQR: A history of ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history, ancient history, ancient rome, hb
Call number
937

March: Book 3

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2016
Tags
graphic novel, american history, civil rights movement, african american history, tpb
Series
March (3)
Call number
973.92092
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