Finalists for 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

February 22, 2018 | News about
• Ivy Pochoda
, and
• Stephen Alford

Ivy Pochoda and Stephen Alford are finalists for 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes!

See all the nominations here.

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Michael Connelly, “The Late Show”

Paul LaFarge, “The Night Ocean”

Attica Locke, “Bluebird, Bluebird”

Joyce Carol Oates, “A Book of American Martyrs”

Ivy Pochoda, “Wonder Valley”

HISTORY

Stephen Alford, “London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s City”

Mark Bowden, “Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam”

Dan Egan, “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes”

Frances FitzGerald, “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America”

Richard Rothstein, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America”