The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, announced during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, are:
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang (Lenny/Random House)
Biography: Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls (University of Chicago Press)
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered by Benjamin Taylor (Penguin Books)
Current Interest: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean (Viking)
Fiction: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead Books)
Graphic Novel/Comics: Present by Leslie Stein (Drawn and Quarterly)
History: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (Norton)
Mystery/Thriller: A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
Poetry: Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)
Science & Technology: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin)
Young Adult Literature: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
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The winners of the 2018 Green Earth Book Award, sponsored by the Nature Generation and honoring "books that best convey the environmental stewardship message and inspire youth to grow a deeper appreciation, respect, and responsibility for their natural environment," have been announced. Winning authors and illustrators receive $1,500. To see the organization's recommended reading list, click here.
Picture Book:
Winner: Creekfinding: A True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Claudia McGehee (University of Minnesota Press)
Honor Winner: Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Jessica Lanan (Sleeping Bear Press)
Children's Nonfiction:
Winner: Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem by Patricia Newman (Millbrook Press)
Honor Winners:
The Hidden Life of a Toad by Doug Wechsler (Charlesbridge)
This Book Stinks! Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash by Sarah Wassner Flynn (National Geographic Kids)
Children's Fiction:
Winner: Forest World by Margarita Engle (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Honor Winner: The Last Panther by Todd Mitchell (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Young Adult Nonfiction:
Winner: Trashing the Planet: Examining Our Global Garbage Glut by Stuart A. Kallen (Twenty-First Century Books)
Honor Winner: Geoengineering Earth's Climate: Resetting the Thermostat by Jennifer Swanson (Twenty-First Century Books)