Discover our Los Angeles Times Book Prize page, spotlighting this year’s nominees and past winners. Celebrate the exceptional storytelling from new and acclaimed voices recognized for their literary achievements over the years! 
 
Congratulations to Silvia Park's Luminous!

2026 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Winner!

Luminous

A Novel

This sweeping debut novel set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood.
 

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2026 Nominees

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Idle Grounds

A Novel

“A chilling exploration of privilege, memory, and the unsettling weight of inherited history.” —Oprah Daily

In this thrilling New England gothic set in the late 1980s, a group of young cousins wander deep into the woods on their family’s property, drawn in by uncanny visions and the disappearance of one of their own—finding that the farther they go, the stranger their surroundings become.

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Biography

Children of Radium

A Buried Inheritance

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker

In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes, this “profound…comic…[and] unconventional” (The New York Times) family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author’s great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis.

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Fiction and Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
 

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Young Adult Literature

King of the Neuro Verse

An “artful and introspective” (BCCB, starred review) novel in verse “celebration of neurodiversity wrapped in bars so tight they could stop traffic” (Shelf Awareness) about a Black teen with ADHD who finds self-expression and first love during one epic summer school season, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and On the Come Up.
 

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2025 Winner in History

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

An American History

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY

“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba.

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