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36th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2015
(Seit 1980 zeichnet die Los Angeles Times die besten Bücher des vergangenen Jahres aus. Auf der Gala am 9. April 2016 auf dem Gelände der Universität von Südkalfornien (USC) werden die Sieger der jeweiligen Kategorie bekanntgegeben.
Hier die Shortlist und die Sieger der Sonderkategorien.)

2015 Innovator's Award Winner:
James Patterson

2015 Robert Kirsch Award Winner:
Juan Felipe Herrera

Beste Biographie:

• Terry Alford: Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Oxford University Press)
• Hayden Herrera: Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs: Jonas Salk: A Life (Oxford University Press)
• Patrick McGilligan: Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (HarperCollins)
• John Norris: Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism (Viking)

Current Interest (Bestes aktuelles Buch - Zeitgeschichte und Zeitgeschehen):

• Sarah Chayes: Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security (W. W. Norton and Company)
• Joe Domanick: Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (Simon & Schuster)
• Sam Quinones: Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury Press)
• Sandy Tolan: Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land (Bloomsbury USA)
• Stephen Witt: How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy (Viking)

Fiction (Bestes belletristisches Buch):

• Anne Enright: The Green Road (W. W. Norton and Company)
• James Hannaham: Delicious Foods (Little, Brown and Company)
• Adam Johnson: Fortune Smiles (Random House)
• Valeria Luiselli: The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House Press)
• Helen Phillips: Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt and Co.)

Graphic Novel/Comics (Bester Comic):

• Sam Alden: New Construction: Two More Stories (Uncivlized Books)
• Julian Hanshaw: Tim Ginger (Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing)
• Riad Sattouf: Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir (Metropolitan Books)
• Maggie Thrash: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir (Candlewick)
• Carol Tyler: Soldier's Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter's Memoir (You'll Never Know) (Fantagraphics)

History (Bestes historisches Buch):

• Mary Beard: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Liveright / W. W. Norton and Company)
• Jonathan M. Bryant: Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope (Liveright / W. W. Norton and Company)
• Dan Ephron: Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel (W. W. Norton and Company)
• David Maraniss: Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (Simon & Schuster)
• Mark Molesky: This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason (Alfred A. Knopf)

Mystery / Thriller:

• Lou Berney: The Long and Faraway Gone (William Morrow)
• Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer (Grove Press)
• Brian Panowich: Bull Mountain (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Richard Price: The Whites (Henry Holt & Company)
• Don Winslow: The Cartel (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry (Bester Lyrikband):

• Rick Barot: Chord (Sarabande Books)
• Jorie Graham: From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco / HarperCollins)
• Robin Coste Lewis: Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Fiona Sze-Lorrain: The Ruined Elegance (Princeton University Press)
• Jean Valentine: Shirt in Heaven (Copper Canyon Press)

Science & Technology (Bestes wissenschaftliches Buch):

• John Markoff: Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots (Ecco / HarperCollins)
• David J. Morris: The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Eamon Dolan / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Princeton University Press)
• Jonathan Waldman: Rust: The Longest War (Simon & Schuster)
• Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Alfred A. Knopf)

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Bestes Debüt):

• Sarah Gerard: Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio)
• Ben Metcalf: Against the Country (Random House)
• Sara Novic: Girl at War (Random House)
• Chigozie Obioma: The Fishermen (Little, Brown and Company)
• Andrew Roe: The Miracle Girl (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Bestes Buch für junge Erwachsene:

• Don Brown: Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
• Marilyn Nelson: My Seneca Village (namelos)
• Jason Reynolds: The Boy in the Black Suit (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• Laura Amy Schlitz: The Hired Girl (Candlewick)
• Steve Sheinkin: Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Roaring Brook Press)