Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
4 books won both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes between 2013 and 2023, most recently By Hands Now Known (2023/2022). 24 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Hurston/Wright Legacy Award · Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
Won both
| Book | Author | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award | Los Angeles Times Book Prizes |
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| By Hands Now Known | Margaret A. Burnham |
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| Heads of the Colored People | Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
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| Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine |
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| We Need New Names | NoViolet Bulawayo |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award | Los Angeles Times Book Prizes |
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| Black Bell | Alison C. Rollins |
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| James | Percival Everett |
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| Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde | Alexis Pauline Gumbs |
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| The Black Utopians | Aaron Robertson |
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| Bread & Circus | Airea Dee Matthews |
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| Time’s Undoing | Cheryl A. Head |
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| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | James Hannaham |
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| The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another | Ainissa Ramirez |
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| American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin | Terrance Hayes |
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| Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon |
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| Washington Black | Esi Edugyan |
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| In the Language of My Captor | Shane McCrae |
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| Incendiary Art | Patricia Smith |
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| Semiautomatic | Evie Shockley |
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| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
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| Swing Time | Zadie Smith |
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| Delicious Foods | James Hannaham |
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| The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma |
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| Voyage of the Sable Venus | Robin Coste Lewis |
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| My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir | Mark Whitaker |
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| Black Water Rising | Attica Locke |
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| Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching | Paula J. Giddings |
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| Say You’re One of Them | Uwem Akpan |
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| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
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