Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A Magnificent Loneliness

Angelica and the Bear Prince By Nguyen, Trung Le

Born in Flames The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City By Ansfield, Bench

El Dorado Drive A Novel By Abbott, Megan

Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI By Hao, Karen

Ibis

Life Drawing By Hernandez, Jaime

Palaver A Novel By Washington, Bryan

There Is No Place for Us Working and Homeless in America By Goldstone, Brian

The Strangers Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them By Eshun, Ekow