The winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize were announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles last night. Jennifer Egan won the fiction award for A Visit From the Goon Squad and Peter Bognanni won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for his novel, The House of Tomorrow.
We’ve listed all the winners below–complete with links to free samples of all the books.

Here’s more from the release: “In an evening of firsts, Beverly Cleary was the first children’s author to win the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, and Powell’s Books was the first bookstore ever honored, receiving the Innovator’s Award, which spotlights cutting-edge business models, technology or applications of narrative art. Cleary was cited as ‘a revolutionary figure’ for the impact of her first novel, Henry Huggins. Published in 1950, it displayed a “clear-cut, but radical agenda: to write directly and movingly for kids.”

2010 Book Prize Winners
* Biography: Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (Random House)
* Current Interest: Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company)
* Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
* Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
* Graphic Novel: Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (PDF link) (Adhouse Books)
* History: Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
* Mystery-Thriller: Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)
* Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company)
* Science & Technology: Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company)
* Young Adult Literature: Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
* Robert Kirsch Award: Beverly Cleary
* Innovator’s Award: Powell’s Books