Finalists for LA Times Book Prizes

rediff.com US edition: Manil Suri among finalists for LA Times Book Prizes

Biography
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand.
John Adams by David McCullough.
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris.
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman.

Current Interest
States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering by Stanley Cohen.
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden.
The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court by John W Dean.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America by Ron Powers.


Fiction
The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen.
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro.
Why Did I Ever: A Novel by Mary Robison.
John Henry Days: A Novel by Colson Whitehead.

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain.
Crawling at Night: A Novel by Nani Power.
The Dark Room (A Novel) by Rachel Seiffert.
The Right Hand of Sleep: A Novel by John Wray.


History
The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G E Bentley Jr.
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson.
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand.
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein.
Venice, Lion City: The Religion of Empire by Garry Wills.


Mystery/Thriller
Open Season: A Joe Pickett Novel by C J Box.
Little America: A Novel by Henry Bromell.
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne.
Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Storyville Mystery by David Fulmer
Silent Joe: A Novel by T Jefferson Parker.


Poetry
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
Felt: Poems by Alice Fulton.
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück.
Landscape With Chainsaw: Poems by James Lasdun.
Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001 by Pattiann Rogers.


Science and Technology
In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery with David Flannery.
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn.
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future by David Hancocks.
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks.
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes.

Young Adult Fiction
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Damage by A M Jenkins.
Girlhearts by Norma Fox Mazer.
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo.
The Land by Mildred D Taylor.