Finalists for the 34th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced last week. The awards ceremony will take place on April 11 at the Brovard Auditorium on the campus of USC. The the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is being held on the USC campus on April 12 & 13, 2014.

There are 50 finalists in 10 categories:

Biography

• Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
• Wilson by A. Scott Berg
• The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler
• Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
• American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah Solomon

Current Interest

• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
• Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
• Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
• Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom by Barry Siegel
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Fiction

• Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
• The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Spectacles: Stories by Susan Steinberg
• The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson
• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
• I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro
• The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford

Graphic Novels/Comics

• Incidents in the Night: Volume 1 by David B.
• Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories by Ben Katchor
• Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust
• The End by Anders Nilsen
• The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by Joe Sacco

History

• FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
• The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772 - 1832 by Alan Taylor

Mystery/Thriller

• Hour of the Red God by Richard Crompton
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
• Sycamore Row by John Grisham
• The Rage by Gene Kerrigan
• The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach

Poetry

• The Inside of an Apple by Joshua Beckman
• Hello, the Roses by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
• Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
• On Ghosts by Elizabeth Robinson
• Debts & Lessons by Lynn Xu

Science & Technology

• Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman
• Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott O. Liliendfeld
• Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell
• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz
• Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman

Young Adult Literature

• Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings by Joyce Sidman
• Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
• Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang

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