Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology

Eugenia Cheng

Caspar Henderson

Zach Weinersmith and Kelly Weinersmith

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

Jaime Green

Sabrina Imbler

Ed Yong

James Vincent

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

Jessica Hernandez

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

Juli Berwald

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Scott Weidensaul

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Katharine Hayhoe

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Emma Marris

Sara Seager

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

Ainissa Ramirez

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

Maria Popova

Katherine Eban

Caroline Criado-Perez

Adam Higginbotham

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Angela Saini

Beth Macy

Eliza Griswold

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Rose George

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

Marcia Bjornerud

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

Mona Hanna-Attisha

Robert Sapolsky

Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin

Cornelia Dean

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker

Luke Dittrich

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach

Ed Yong

Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

Bruce Watson

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Sonia Shah

Andrea Wulf

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

Beth Shapiro

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

John Markoff

Rust: The Longest War

Jonathan Waldman

The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

David J. Morris

Elizabeth Kolbert

Michael Benson

Christian Rudder

MD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues

Martin J. Blaser

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

Alan Weisman

Virginia Morell

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Annalee Newitz

Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect

Matthew D. Lieberman

Florence Williams

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t

Nate Silver

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Jonathan Gottschall

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

George Dyson

Sylvia Nasar

Joel Achenbach

Holly Tucker

James Gleick

Mara Hvistendahl

Oren Harman

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

Lauren Redniss

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Graham Farmelo

Richard Wrangham

Bill Streever

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

The Day We Found the Universe

Marcia Bartusiak

Leonard Susskind

Microcosm: E.Coli and the New Science of Life

Carl Zimmer

Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul

Kenneth R. Miller

What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life

Avery Gilbert

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Martin J. S. Rudwick

Douglas Hofstadter

James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould

Gino Segrè

On Deep History and the Brain

Daniel Lord Smail

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

Christine Kenneally

Eric R. Kandel

The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

Edward O. Wilson

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

Ann Gibbons

The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

Joyce Chaplin

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

Diana Preston

Brad Matsen

Sean B. Carroll

Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance

Mariana Gosnell

The Republican War on Science

Chris Mooney

Charles Wohlforth

His Brother’s Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine

Jonathan Weiner

On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon

Alan Tennant

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

Lauren Slater

The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine

Ann Parson

Philip J. Hilts

Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension

Stephen S. Hall

The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

David Baron

The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

Chandler Burr

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

Paul Hoffman

Brenda Maddox

Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

Deborah Blum

Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale

Judith Hooper

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

Richard Preston

Richard Hamblyn

David Hancocks

In Code: A Mathematical Journey

Sarah Flannery and David Flannery

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

Bryan Sykes

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Oliver Sacks

James Le Fanu, M.D.

Karl Sabbagh

David Bodanis

Dennis Overbye

Matt Ridley

Dava Sobel

Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

Alison Jolly

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-Birds

Bernd Heinrich

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Simon Singh

The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS

Edward Hooper

Douglas Starr

Mendel’s Dwarf

Simon Mawer

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

Pat Shipman

The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character

Daniel J. Kevles

Steven Pinker

Richard Rhodes

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications

David Deutsch

The Trouble With Testosterone And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament

Robert M. Sapolsky

Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet

David Harry Grinspoon

Carl Sagan

Amir D. Aczel

George Johnson

Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

James Howard Kunstler

The Dying of the Trees

Charles E. Little

The Forgotten Pollinators

Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan

The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Edward O. Wilson

Oliver Sacks

Antonio R. Damasio

The Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the Milky Way

Ken Croswell

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are -- The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Robert Wright

Jonathan Weiner

Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA

Robert Pollack

The End of Evolution

Peter Ward

Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science

Alan Cromer

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

Robert M. Sapolsky

Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger

Daniel Crevier

Gary Taubes

James Gleick

Edward O. Wilson

Jared Diamond

Steven Levy

John Gribbin

Daniel C. Dennett

The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-Handedness

Stanley Coren

Grigori Medvedev

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

Dennis Overbye

The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence

William H. Calvin

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Robert Kanigel

Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas

Sy Montgomery

Jane S. Smith

Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge

Robert Scott Root-Bernstein

Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization

Christopher Manes

Sonoran Desert Summer

John Alcock

The Control of Nature

John McPhee

Frans de Waal

Is Science Necessary?: Essays on Science and Scientists

Max F. Perutz

Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science

David L. Hull

The Five Senses

F. Gonzalez-Crussi

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

Francis Crick