The shortlists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been revealed. The Book Prizes recognize 66 works in 13 categories. The sff category finalists are:

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

• Tananarive Due, The Reformatory: A Novel
• Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
• Victor LaValle, Lone Women: A Novel
• V. E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power
• E. Lily Yu, Jewel Box: Stories

The category judges are Maurice Broaddus, Craig Laurance Gidney, and Lucy A. Snyder.

This category was previously named the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction category, sponsored by the Ray Bradbury Foundation. I asked judge Lucy A. Snyder if she knew the reason for the change and she explained: “My understanding is that the Bradbury estate recently changed ownership, and the new owners decided they didn’t want to sponsor the award any longer. (Sponsorship cost in the range of $22,000 a year to cover costs of the awards, flying the winners out, etc.)”

The complete list of finalists follows the jump.

Achievement in Audiobook Production

• Maria Bamford, narrator, Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
• Sophia Bush, narrator, Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
• Helena de Groot, lead producer, Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
• Dion Graham, narrator, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
• Kerri Kolen, executive producer, Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
• Helen Laser, narrator, Yellowface
• Adam Lazarre-White, narrator, All the Sinners Bleed
• Elishia Merricks, producer, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
• Elishia Merricks, producer, All the Sinners Bleed
• Suzanne Franco Mitchell, director/producer, Yellowface

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

• Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel
• Sheena Patel, I’m a Fan: A Novel
• Shannon Sanders, Company: Stories
• James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild: A Novel
• Ghassan Zeineddine, Dearborn

Biography

• Leah Redmond Chang, Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
• Gregg Hecimovich, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
• Jonny Steinberg, Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
• Elizabeth R. Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
• David Waldstreicher, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose

Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Current Interest

• Bettina L. Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
• Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once A Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
• Zusha Elinson, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
• Cameron McWhirter, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
• Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes
• Raja Shehadeh, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

Fiction

• Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
• Yiyun Li, Wednesday’s Child: Stories
• Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North: A Novel
• Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel
• Justin Torres, Blackouts: A Novel

Graphic Novel/Comics

• Derek M. Ballard, Cartoonshow
• Matías Bergara, CODA
• Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
• Sammy Harkham, Blood of the Virgin
• Chantal Montellier, Social Fiction
• Simon Spurrier, CODA

History

• Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
• Joya Chatterji, Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
• Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
• Blair L.M. Kelley, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
• Nikki M. Taylor, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

Innovator’s Award

• Access Books

Mystery/Thriller

• Lou Berney, Dark Ride: A Thriller
• S. A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel
• Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows: A Novel
• Cheryl A. Head, Time’s Undoing: A Novel
• Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down: A Novel

Poetry

• K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
• Airea D. Matthews, Bread and Circus: Poems
• Maggie Millner, Couplets: A Love Story
• Jenny Molberg, The Court of No Record: Poems
• Simon Shieh, Master: Poems

Robert Kirsch Award

• Jane Smiley

Science & Technology

• Eugenia Cheng, Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
• Jeff Goodell, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
• Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
• Caspar Henderson, A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
• Zach Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
• Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

• Tananarive Due, The Reformatory: A Novel
• Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
• Victor LaValle, Lone Women: A Novel
• V. E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power
• E. Lily Yu, Jewel Box: Stories

Young Adult Literature

• Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
• Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa
• Kim Johnson, Invisible Son
• Amber McBride, Gone Wolf
• Sarah Myer, Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story