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This week, the L.A. Times has announced their 46th annual Book Prizes. Among the honorees and finalists are a wide range of authors, literary advocates, and books across an array of genres. Winners will be announced Friday, April 17 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, right before the 31st annual a prologue to the 31st annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which runs April 18-19.

Among the announced winners are Amy Tan, who will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. We Need Diverse Books will take home the Innovator’s Award, which honors efforts that help bring storytelling into the future. The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose will be awarded to Adam Ross for his book Playworld.

The L.A. Times Book Prizes have 61 finalists competing across 13 different categories. Here’s a look at some of the categories and their finalists.

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalists:

• Plum by Andy Anderegg
• Ibis: A Novel by Justin Haynes
• Idle Grounds: A Novel by Krystelle Bamford
• Hunchback: A Novel by Saou Ichikawa translated by Polly Barton
• Dominion: A Novel by Addie E. Citchens

Achievement in Audiobook Production, Presented by Audible

• How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast (Narrator), Matie Argiropoulos (Producer)
• Black in Blues by Imani Perry (Narrator), Suzanne Mitchell (Producer)
• People Like Us by Jason Mott, Ronald Peet, and JD Jackson (Narrators), Diane McKiernan (Producer)
• The Correspondent by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Steve West, and Jim Seybert (Narrators), Kelly Gildea (Producer)
• The Emperor of Gladness by James Aaron Oh (Narrator), Linda Korn (Producer)

Fiction

• Only Way Out by Tod Goldberg
• Gloria by Andrés Felipe Solano, translated by Will Vanderhyden
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• Palaver by Bryan Washington
• These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

Graphic Novel/Comics

• Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi
• Cannon by Lee Lai
• Life and Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection by Jaime Hernandez
• The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief by Carol Tyler
• Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy

History

• Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams
• Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 by Eli Erlick
• Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield
• High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America by Aaron G. Fountain Jr.
• Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters by Jennifer Clapp

Young Adult Literature

• The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
• Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen
• King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin
• Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr
• My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser by Jamie Jo Hoang

You can learn more about the L.A. Times Book Prizes, including the full slate of finalists, on their website.

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