The L.A. Times Book Prizes 2025 winners were announced on April 25.

Kelly Link’s The Book of Love won the Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction category.

The other finalists in the category were:

• Jedediah Berry, The Naming Song
• Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
• Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel
• Nghi Vo, The City in Glass

Two other works of genre interest won awards: in the Graphic Novel/Comics category, Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1; and in the nonfiction Science & Technology category, Rebecca Boyle’s Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are.

Here is the complete list of LA Times Book Prize winners.

Robert Kirsch Award

• Pico Iyer, Aflame: Learning From Silence

The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose

• Emily Witt, Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Innovator’s Award

• Amanda Gorman

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

• Jiaming Tang, Cinema Love: A Novel

Achievement in Audiobook Production, presented by Audible

• Dominic Hoffman (narrator), Linda Korn (producer); James: A Novel

Biography

• Laura Beers, Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century

Current Interest

• Jesse Katz, The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant L.A.

Fiction

• Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel

Graphic Novel/Comics

• Taiyo Matsumoto, Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1

History

• Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, From the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Mystery/Thriller

• Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Box: A Novel

Poetry

• Remica Bingham-Risher, Room Swept Home

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

• Kelly Link, The Book of Love

Science & Technology

• Rebecca Boyle, Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Young-Adult Literature

• Kim Johnson, The Color of a Lie