Previous Winners
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners, 1980-Present
Listed by Year
| 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | |
| 1981 | 1986 | 1991 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | |
| 1982 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2002 | 2007 | 2012 | |
| 1983 | 1988 | 1993 | 1998 | 2003 | 2008 | ||
| 1984 | 1989 | 1994 | 1999 | 2004 | 2009 |
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2012 Book Prize Winners
Biography ›
Winner: Robert A. Caro / The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf)
Current Interest ›
Winner: Katherine Boo / Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)
Fiction ›
Winner: Ben Fountain / Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (HarperCollins Publishers / Ecco)
Graphic Novel/Comics ›
Winner: Sammy Harkham / Everything Together: Collected Stories (PictureBox)
History ›
Winner: Fergus M. Bordewich / America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union (Simon & Schuster)
Innovator’s Award ›
Winner: Margaret Atwood
Kirsch Award ›
Winner: Kevin Starr
Mystery/Thriller ›
Winner: Tana French / Broken Harbor (Viking)
Poetry ›
Winner: Louise Glück / Poems 1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Science & Technology ›
Winner: Florence Williams / Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (W.W. Norton & Company)
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction ›
Winner: Maggie Shipstead / Seating Arrangements (Knopf)
Young Adult Literature ›
Winner: A.S. King / Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers)
