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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2016

The 37th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on Friday, April 21, 2017 in a public ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The best books of 2016 were recognized in 11 categories, along with the winners of the Innovator’s and Robert Kirsch awards.

Week of March 13, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of March 13th include JANE STEELE, Lyndsay Faye's reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, which has been nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel; RIGHTFUL HERITAGE, historian Douglas Brinkley's chronicle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's essential yet under-sung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and premier protector of America’s public lands; TWO IF BY SEA by Jacquelyn Mitchard, an epic story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift; and MAGGIE SMITH, Michael Coveney's biography of Dame Maggie Smith, whose stage and screen career spans six decades.