The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
| 1989 | Peacemaking Among Primates | Winner | [1] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery | Finalist | [2] | ||
| Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science | ||||
| Is Science Necessary?: Essays on Science and Scientists | ||||
| 1990 | Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine | Winner | [3] | |
| Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge | Finalist | |||
| Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization | ||||
| Sonoran Desert Summer | ||||
| 1991 | Winner | [4] | ||
| Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe | Finalist | |||
| Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas | ||||
| 1992 | Winner | [5] | ||
| Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology | Finalist | |||
| Blinded By The Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark Matter | ||||
| Consciousness Explained | ||||
| 1993 | and Paul Freiberger | Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World | Winner | [6] |
| AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence | Finalist | |||
| Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion | ||||
| Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | ||||
| 1994 | Winner | [7] | ||
| Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA | Finalist | |||
| Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science | ||||
| Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers | ||||
| 1995 | Naturalist | Winner | [8] | |
| An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales | Finalist | |||
| Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain | ||||
| 1996 | Winner | [9] | ||
| Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem | Finalist | |||
| Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order | ||||
| Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century | ||||
| and Gary Paul Nabhan | ||||
| 1997 | How the Mind Works | Winner | [10] | |
| Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague | Finalist | |||
| Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet | ||||
| 1998 | Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce | Winner | [11] | |
| Mendel’s Dwarf | Finalist | [12] | ||
| and Sandra Blakeslee | Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind | |||
| Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight | ||||
| 1999 | Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love | Winner | ||
| Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution | Finalist | [13] | ||
| Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-Birds | ||||
| 2000 | , M.D. | Winner | ||
| Finalist | [14] | |||
| E = mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation | ||||
| Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance | ||||
| Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters | ||||
| 2001 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | [15] | |||
| and David Flannery | In Code: A Mathematical Journey | |||
| Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood | ||||
| 2002 | Winner | |||
| Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection | Finalist | [16] | ||
| Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale | ||||
| Salt: A World History | ||||
| 2003 | Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation | Winner | [17] | |
| Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension | Finalist | |||
| Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight | ||||
| 2004 | Winner | [18] | ||
| His Brother’s Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine | Finalist | |||
| On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon | ||||
| Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century | ||||
| 2005 | Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima | Winner | [19] | |
| Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss | Finalist | [20] | ||
| Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo | ||||
| Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance | ||||
| 2006 | In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind | Winner | [21] [22] | |
| Finalist | [23] | |||
| This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession | ||||
| 2007 | I Am a Strange Loop | Winner | [24] | |
| and Carol Grant Gould | Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence | Finalist | ||
| Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics | ||||
| On Deep History and the Brain | ||||
| 2008 | Winner | [25] [26] | ||
| Microcosm: E.Coli and the New Science of Life | Finalist | [27] | ||
| Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul | ||||
| What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life | ||||
| Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform | ||||
| 2009 | Winner | [28] | ||
| Finalist | [29] | |||
| Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places | ||||
| Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science | ||||
| 2010 | Winner | [30] | ||
| and Erik M. Conway | Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Finalist | [31] | |
| Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout | ||||
| 2011 | Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius | Winner | [32] | |
| Finalist | [33] | |||
| Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution | ||||
| Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men | ||||
| 2012 | Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History | Winner | [34] [35] | |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking | Finalist | [36] | ||
| Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe | ||||
| 2013 | Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? | Winner | [37] | |
| Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures | Finalist | [38] | ||
| and Scott O. Lilienfeld | Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience | |||
| Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction | ||||
| Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect | ||||
| 2014 | Winner | [39] [40] | ||
| Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time | Finalist | [41] | ||
| Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) | ||||
| MD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues | ||||
| This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate | ||||
| 2015 | Winner | [42] | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots | ||||
| Rust: The Longest War | ||||
| 2016 | Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets | Winner | [43] | |
| Finalist | [44] | |||
| I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life | ||||
| Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age | ||||
| Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond | ||||
| 2017 | Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Winner | [45] | |
| and Samuel H. Sternberg | Finalist | [46] | ||
| Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin | ||||
| 2018 | Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America | Winner | [47] | |
| Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America | Finalist | [48] | ||
| Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood | ||||
| Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World | ||||
| What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City | ||||
| 2019 | Figuring | Winner | [49] [50] | |
| Bottle of Lies: the Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom | Finalist | [51] | ||
| Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster | ||||
| 2020 | Winner | [52] | ||
| Finalist | [53] | |||
| Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life | ||||
| 2021 | Dr. | Winner | [54] | |
| Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World | Finalist | [55] | ||
| Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World | ||||
| God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning | ||||
| 2022 | How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Winner | [56] | |
| Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science | Finalist | |||
| Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs | ||||
| Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement From Cubits to Quantum Constants | ||||
| 2023 | Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths | Winner | [57] | |
| Finalist | [58] | |||