Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles Times | FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: April 30th - May 1, 2011 USC Campus

Winner

• John A. Farrell , Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned (Doubleday)

Runners Up

• Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking)
• Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House)
• Alexandra Styron, Reading My Father: A Memoir (Scribner)
• Mark Whitaker, My Long Trip Home (Simon & Schuster)

Winner

• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Runners Up

• David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Ioan Grillo, El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (Bloomsbury Press)
• Anatol Lieven, Pakistan: A Hard Country (PublicAffairs)
• Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear (Simon & Schuster)

Winner

• Alex Shakar, Luminarium (SoHo Press)

Runners Up

• Joseph O’Connor, Ghost Light (Frances Coady Book/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table (Knopf)
• Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Knopf)
• Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Lookout Books/University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Winner

• Ismet Prcic, Shards (Grove Press, Black Cat)

Runners Up

• Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown & Company)
• Eleanor Henderson, Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco/HarperCollins)
• Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press)
• James Wallenstein, The Arriviste (Milkweed Editions)

Winner

• Carla Speed McNeil, Finder: Voice (Dark Horse)

Runners Up

• Joseph Lambert, I Will Bite You! And Other Stories (Secret Acres)
• Dave McKean, Celluloid (Fantagraphics)
• Jim Woodring, Congress of the Animals (Fantagraphics)
• Yuichi Yokoyama, Garden (PictureBox)

Winner

• Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (W.W. Norton & Company)

Runners Up

• Javier Cercas, The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination (Bloomsbury Press)
• Adam Goodheart, 1861: The Civil War Awakening (Knopf)
• Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Rachel Polonsky, Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Winner

• Stephen King, 11/22/1963 (Scribner)

Runners Up

• Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
• Eoin Colfer, Plugged (Overlook Press)
• A.D. Miller, Snowdrops: A Novel (Doubleday)
• Denise Mina, The End of Wasp Season (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)

Winner

• Carl Phillips, Double Shadow: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Runners Up

• Jim Harrison, Songs of Unreason (Copper Canyon Press)
• Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline (Nightboat Books)
• Linda Norton, The Public Gardens (Pressed Wafer)
• Bruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press)

Winner

• Sylvia Nasar, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (Simon & Schuster)

Runners Up

• Joel Achenbach, A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher (Simon & Schuster)
• James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (Pantheon)
• Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (PublicAffairs)
• Holly Tucker, Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (W.W. Norton & Company)

Winner

• Pete Hautman, The Big Crunch (Scholastic Press)

Runners Up

• Libba Bray, Beauty Queens (Scholastic Press)
• Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd (Candlewick Press)
• Mal Peet, Life: An Exploded Diagram (Candlewick Press)
• Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races (Scholastic Press)

Winner

• Rudolfo Anaya

Winner

• Figment