By Kristen on Mar 16, 2009 in Book Club Favorites
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Check out this long, lovely list of the Los Angeles Times 2008 Book Prize Finalists!
Biography
H.W. Brands, A Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ernest Freeberg, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jackie Wullschlager, Chagall: A Biography
Current Interest
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
Fiction
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Richard Price, Lush Life
Marilynne Robinson, Home
Joan Silber, The Size of the World
Marisa Silver, The God of War
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Uwem Akpan, Say You’re One of Them
Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf
Sadie Jones, The Outcast
Roma Tearne, Mosquito
David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
History
Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
Mystery/Thriller
Colin Harrison, The Finder
Michael Koryta, Envy the Night
Simon Lewis, Bad Traffic: An Inspector Jian Novel
Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming
Tom Rob Smith, Child 44
Poetry
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
Jorie Graham, Sea Change: Poems
Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
Cole Swensen, Ours
Connie Voisine, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
Science & Technology
Avery Gilbert, What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
Kenneth R. Miller, Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul
Martin J.S. Rudwick, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Carl Zimmer, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Young Adult Literature
Candace Fleming, The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Oscar Hijuelos, Dark Dude
Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole
Terry Pratchett, Nation
I’ve only read Edgar Sawtelle so far… How ’bout you?
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