Congratulations to the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners!

By Coll Rowe | May 15 2025 | Literature

The Los Angeles Times announced winners of its Book Prizes across 13 categories. The Times’ Book Prizes recognize outstanding literary achievements and celebrate the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.

Congratulations to the Penguin Random House authors who are among the winners:

 

Robert Kirsch Award: Aflame by Pico Iyer

Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: Health and Safety by Emily Witt

Innovator’s Award: Amanda Gorman

Achievement in Audiobook Production: Dominic Hoffman (narrator) and Linda Korn (producer), James by Percival Everett

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

Current Interest: The Rent Collectors by Jesse Katz

History: Ruin Their Crops on the Ground  by Andrea Freeman

Mystery/Thriller: The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction: The Book of Love by Kelly Link

Science & Technology: Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle

Young Adult Literature: The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson

 

Find the full list of Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners here.

Learning from Silence
9780593420287

From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat.

$30.00 US
Jan 14, 2025
Hardcover
240 Pages
Riverhead Books

A Breakdown
9780593317648

From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City

$27.00 US
Sep 17, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Pantheon

A Novel
9780593821251
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
Mar 19, 2024
Audiobook Download
Random House Audio

A Novel
9780593474334
Moving from rural post-socialist China to present-day NYC Chinatown, Cinema Love is an immigrant story, a queer love story, and a tender examination of the legacies of caregiving and assimilation in Chinese America.
$28.00 US
May 07, 2024
Hardcover
304 Pages
Dutton

Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
9781662601736
Tattoos on the Heart meets Ghettoside in this gripping true story about a botched gang murder set in the invisible economy of LA’s immigrant street vendors.
$28.00 US
Jul 16, 2024
Hardcover
320 Pages
Astra House

The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
9780593944868

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era.

Jul 16, 2024
Audiobook Download
Random House Audio

A Novel
9780593595329
The world’s greatest puzzle master sets out to solve the most dangerous enigma of his life—or die trying—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Puzzle Master, hailed as “thrilling” by David Baldacci.
$30.00 US
Oct 08, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
Random House

A Novel
9780812986501

In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.

$20.00 US
Feb 11, 2025
Paperback
640 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks

How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
9780593129746

Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes readers on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution.

$20.00 US
Jun 03, 2025
Paperback
336 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks

9780593118832

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught between two worlds, a teen boy puts his family at risk as he uncovers racist secrets about his suburb.

$12.99 US
Jun 03, 2025
Paperback
352 Pages
Random House Books for Young Readers