Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1980 Harrison Salisbury Without Fear or Favor Winner [1]
1981 Jacobo Timerman Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number Winner [1]
1982 Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth Winner [1]
1983 Walker Percy Lost in the Cosmos Winner [1]
1984 Jane Jacobs Cities and the Wealth of Nations Winner [1]
1985 Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life Winner [1]
1986 Joseph Lelyveld Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White Winner [1]
1987 Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker Winner [1]
1988 William Greider Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country Winner [1]
1989 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 Winner [1]
1990 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century Winner [1]
Vaclav Havel and Paul Wilson Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala Finalist [2]
Rian Malan My Traitor’s Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
Rick Atkinson The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966
Kevin Phillips The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
1991 E. J. Dionne, Jr. Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process Winner [1]
Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America Finalist [3]
Daniel Yergin The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
Nicholas Lemann The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Alan Ehrenhalt The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office
1992 Francis Fukuyama The End of History and the Last Man Winner [1]
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics Finalist [4]
James Davison Hunter Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
James B. Stewart Den of Thieves
Pico Iyer The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
1993 Peter Skerry Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority Winner [1]
Doris May Lessing African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe Finalist [5]
Randy Shilts Conduct Unbecoming
Paul Kennedy Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
David Brock The Real Anita Hill
1994 Henry Kissinger Diplomacy Winner [1]
Harry V. Jaffa Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question Finalist [6]
Brent Staples Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
James Q. Wilson The Moral Sense
Katie Roiphe The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism
1995 Gregory Howard Williams Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Winner [1]
Michael J. Piore Beyond Individualism: How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge American Political and Finalist [7]
Nancy Abelmann and John Lie Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps
Jeffrey Abramson We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy
1996 Peter Maass Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War Winner [1]
Jonathan Harr A Civil Action Finalist [8]
Fox Butterfield All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Richard Kluger Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
John Hockenberry Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
David Quammen The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Evan Thomas The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
Marc Parent Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Winner [1]
Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Finalist [9]
Bernard Lefkowitz Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
Randall Kennedy Race, Crime, and the Law
Daniel Harris The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Winner [1]
Russ Rymer American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory Finalist [10]
Cynthia Gorney Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars
William Finnegan Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
Cristina Rathbone On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School
1999 Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer) Sidewalk Winner [1]
Leila Ahmed A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey Finalist [11]
Richard A. Posner An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Mark Bowden Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Joshua Hammer Chosen By God: A Brother’s Journey
2000 Frances FitzGerald Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War Winner [1]
Patrick Tierney Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon Finalist [12]
S.L. Price Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports
Ian Buruma The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West
Sherwin B. Nuland The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body
2001 Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Winner [13]
Stanley Cohen States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering Finalist [14]
Ann Crittenden The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
John W. Dean The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
Ron Powers Tom and Huck Don’t Live Here Anymore
2002 Judith Levine Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex Winner [1]
Timothy Ferris Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space, and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril Finalist [15]
Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (editors) The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
Kevin Phillips Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Samantha Power "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
2003 Ross Terrill The New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United States Winner [1]
Carlo Rotella Cut Time: An Education at the Fights Finalist [16]
Anthony Swofford Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Jon Krakauer Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Gerald Posner Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11
2004 Evan Wright Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War Winner [1]
Edward Conlon Blue Blood Finalist [17]
Michael Dirda Bound to Please
Karen Armstrong The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Ann Patchett Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
2005 Anthony Shadid Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War Winner [1]
Kurt Eichenwald Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story Finalist [18]
Steve Bogira Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
John Updike Still Looking: Essays on American Art
Jonathan Harr The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
2006 Ian Buruma Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Winner [1]
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone Finalist [19]
Terri Jentz Strange Piece of Paradise
Alicia Drake The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
Douglas Brinkley The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
2007 Elizabeth D. Samet Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point Winner [1]
Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Finalist [20]
Tom Bissell The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
Ronald Brownstein The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
2008 Barton Gellman Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency Winner [1]
Jill Bolte Taylor My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey Finalist [21]
Steve Coll The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Jane Mayer The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Dexter Filkins The Forever War
2009 Dave Eggers Zeitoun Winner [1]
Dave Cullen Columbine Finalist [22]
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Tracy Kidder Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
T.R. Reid The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
2010 Michael Lewis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Winner [23]
Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis Finalist [24]
Patti Smith Just Kids
Jonathan Alter The Promise: President Obama, Year One
Sebastian Junger War
2011 Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow Winner [1]
Ioan Grillo El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency Finalist [25]
Alex Bellos Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Anatol Lieven Pakistan: A Hard Country
Seth Mnookin The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
2012 Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum Winner [1]
Jim Sterba Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds Finalist [26]
Karen Elliott House On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future
Steve Coll Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Jake Tapper The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
2013 Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Winner [1]
Charlie LeDuff Detroit: An American Autopsy Finalist [27]
Lawrence Wright Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Barry Siegel Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
David Finkel Thank You for Your Service
2014 Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Winner [1]
Atul Gawande Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Finalist [28]
Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Matt Taibbi The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Héctor Tobar Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
2015 Sarah Chayes Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Winner [1]
Joe Domanick Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing Finalist [29]
Sandy Tolan Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sam Quinones Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Stephen Witt How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century
2016 Svetlana Alexievich with Bela Shayevich (trans.) Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Winner [1]
Robert F. Worth A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS Finalist [30]
Ben Rawlence City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Jane Mayer Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
2017 Nancy MacLean Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America Winner [1]
James Forman Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Finalist [31]
Rick Wartzman The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Lauren Markham The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
Ta-Nehisi Coates We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
2018 Francisco Cantu The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border Winner [1]
2019 Emily Bazelon Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration Winner [32][33][34]
Mark Arax The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California Finalist [32][33]
Ronan Farrow Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Dina Nayeri The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
2020 Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Winner [35]
Brittany K. Barnett A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom Finalist [36]
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The Undocumented Americans
Christine Montross Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration
Jacob Soboroff Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
2021 Adam Schiff Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could Winner [37]
Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Finalist [38]
Heather McGhee The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Reuben Jonathan Miller Halfway Home: Race, Punihsment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Evan Osnos Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
2022 Dahlia Lithwick Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America Winner [39]
Anand Giridharadas The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy Finalist [39]
Sarah Kendzior They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
Luke Mogelson The Storm is Here: An American Crucible
Dorothy Roberts Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

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