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Annual literary prize
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction , 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.
Recipients
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners and finalists
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
1980
Walker Percy
The Second Coming
Winner
[ 1]
Joyce Carol Oates
Bellefleur
Finalist
[ 1]
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
William Golding
Darkness Visible
John le Carré
Smiley’s People
1981
D. M. Thomas
The White Hotel
Winner
[ 2]
William Wharton
Dad
Finalist
[ 2]
Elizabeth Bowen
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Mark Helprin
Ellis Island and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Philip Roth
Zuckerman Unbound
1982
Robert Stone
A Flag for Sunrise
Winner
[ 3]
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories
Finalist
[ 3]
Saul Bellow
The Dean's December
Anne Tyler
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Donald Barthelme
Sixty Stories
1983
Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark
Winner
[ 4]
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Finalist
[ 4]
John le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
Iris Murdoch
The Philosopher's Pupil
1984
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Winner
[ 5]
Joan Didion
Democracy
Finalist
[ 5]
Saul Bellow
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
Harriet Doerr
Stones for Ibarra
John Updike
The Witches of Eastwick
1985
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Winner
[ 6]
Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John
Finalist
[ 6]
J.G. Ballard
Empire of the Sun
Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac
Elizabeth Benedict
Slow Dancing
1986
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Winner
[ 7]
Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist
Finalist
[ 7]
Vikram Seth
The Golden Gate
Garrison Keillor
Lake Wobegon Days
Carlos Fuentes
The Old Gringo
John le Carré
A Perfect Spy
1987
James Welch
Fools Crow
Winner
[ 8]
Isabel Allende
Of Love and Shadows
Finalist
[ 8]
Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis
Alice McDermott
That Night
Joyce Carol Oates
You Must Remember This
1988
Gabriel García Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Winner
[ 9]
Doris May Lessing
The Fifth Child
Finalist
[ 9]
Don DeLillo
Libra
Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
Jorge Amado
Showdown
1989
Fay Weldon
The Heart of the Country
Winner
[ 10]
Eduardo Mendoza and Bernard Molloy
The City of Marvels
Finalist
[ 10]
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
Bette Pesetsky
Midnight Sweets
Elaine Feinstein
Mother’s Girl
1990
Edna O'Brien
Lantern Slides
Winner
[ 11]
Anyi Wang and Martha Avery
Baotown
Finalist
[ 11]
Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth
Jane Smiley
Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas
Thea Astley
Reaching Tin River
1991
Allan Gurganus
White People
Winner
[ 12]
Claude Simon
The Acacia
Finalist
[ 12]
J.M. Coetzee
Age of Iron
Annie Ernaux
A Woman’s Story
Sandra Cisneros
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
1992
Art Spiegelman
Maus II, A Survivor's Tale : And Here My Troubles Began
Winner
[ 13]
Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres
Finalist
[ 13]
Paule Marshall
Daughters
Randall Kenan
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead: Stories
Edna O’Brien
Time and Tide
1993
Barbara Kingsolver
Pigs in Heaven
Winner
[ 14]
Sue Miller
For Love
Finalist
[ 14]
Cathleen Schine
Rameau’s Niece
Helen Norris
The Burning Glass: Stories
William Trevor
William Trevor: The Collected Stories
1994
David Malouf
Remembering Babylon
Winner
[ 15]
Bharati Mukherjee
Holder of the World
Finalist
[ 15]
William T. Vollmann
The Rifles : Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequence
Mark Salzman
The Soloist
David Leavitt
While England Sleeps
1995
William Boyd
The Blue Afternoon
Winner
[ 16]
Kate Grenville
Albion’s Story
Finalist
[ 16]
William Trevor
Felicia’s Journey
Alice Munro
Open Secrets: Stories
Bradford Morrow
Trinity Fields
1996
Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
Winner
[ 17]
Louis Begley
About Schmidt
Finalist
[ 17]
Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for Himself
A.B. Yehoshua
Open Heart
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Santa Evita
Andrea Barrett
Ship Fever and Other Stories
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
R.C. Binstock
Tree of Heaven
1997
James Carlos Blake
In the Rogue Blood
Winner
[ 18]
Louis B. Jones
California’s Over
Finalist
[ 18]
Seamus Deane
Reading in the Dark
Francisco Goldman
The Ordinary Seaman
Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway
The Reader
1998
W. G. Sebald with Michael Hulse (trans.)
The Rings of Saturn
Winner
[ 19]
William Trevor
Death in Summer
Finalist
[ 19]
Susan Minot
Evening
Richard Price
Freedomland
Philip Roth
I Married a Communist
1999
Amit Chaudhuri
Freedom Song: Three Novels
Winner
[ 20]
Annie Proulx
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Finalist
[ 20]
Andre Dubus III
House of Sand and Fog
Kent Haruf
Plainsong
Ha Jin
Waiting
2000
David Means
Assorted Fire Events
Winner
[ 21]
Peter Ho Davies
Equal Love
Finalist
[ 21]
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
Joy Williams
The Quick and the Dead
2001
Mary Robison
Why Did I Ever
Winner
[ 22]
Abdulrazak Gurnah
By the Sea
Finalist
[ 22]
Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Colson Whitehead
John Henry Days
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2002
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Winner
[ 23]
Peter Cameron
The City of Your Final Destination
Finalist
[ 23]
Kate Jennings
Moral Hazard
Aleksandar Hemon
Nowhere Man
Joanna Scott
Tourmaline
2003
Pete Dexter
Train
Winner
[ 24]
Michelle Huneven
Jamesland
Finalist
[ 24]
Tobias Wolff
Old School
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake
Sherman Alexie
Ten Little Indians
2004
Colm Tóibín
The Master
Winner
[ 25]
Russell Banks
The Darling
Finalist
[ 25]
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Chris Abani
GraceLand
Joy Williams
Honored Guest: Stories
2005
Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman (trans.)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Winner
[ 26]
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Finalist
[ 26]
Nick Hornby
A Long Way Down
E.L. Doctorow
The March
Mary Gaitskill
Veronica
2006
A. B. Yehoshua with Hillel Halkin (trans.)
A Woman in Jerusalem
Winner
[ 27] [ 28]
David Mitchell
Black Swan Green
Finalist
[ 27]
Susan Straight
A Million Nightingales
Peter Orner
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Daniel Woodrell
Winter’s Bone
2007
Andrew O'Hagan
Be Near Me
Winner
[ 29]
Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Finalist
[ 29]
Stewart O’Nan
Last Night at the Lobster
Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses
Marianne Wiggins
The Shadow Catcher
2008
Marilynne Robinson
Home
Winner
[ 30] [ 31] [ 32]
Richard Price
Lush Life
Finalist
[ 33]
Marisa Silver
The God of War
Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
Joan Silber
The Size of the World
2009
Rafael Yglesias
A Happy Marriage
Winner
[ 34]
Michelle Huneven
Blame
Finalist
[ 34]
Jill Ciment
Heroic Measures
Jane Gardam
The Man in the Wooden Hat
Kate Walbert
A Short History of Women
2010
Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Winner
[ 35]
Frederick Reiken
Day for Night
Finalist
[ 35]
Jonathan Franzen
Freedom
Rick Bass
Nashville Chrome
Richard Bausch
Something Is Out There: Stories
2011
Alex Shakar
Luminarium
Winner
[ 36] [ 37]
Edith Pearlman
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Finalist
[ 38]
Julie Otsuka
The Buddha in the Attic
Michael Ondaatje
The Cat's Table
Joseph O’Connor
Ghost Light
2012
Ben Fountain
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Winner
[ 39] [ 40]
Lauren Groff
Arcadia
Finalist
[ 41]
Lydia Millet
Magnificence
Jami Attenberg
The Middlesteins
Michael Chabon
Telegraph Avenue
2013
Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
Winner
[ 42]
Daniel Woodrell
The Maid’s Version
Finalist
[ 43]
Percival Everett
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Susan Steinberg
Spectacle: Stories
Claire Messud
The Woman Upstairs
2014
Siri Hustvedt
The Blazing World
Winner
[ 44]
Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird
Finalist
[ 45]
Jenny Offill
Dept. of Speculation
Donald Antrim
The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
Jesse Ball
Silence Once Begun
2015
Valeria Luiselli
The Story of My Teeth
Winner
[ 46]
Helen Phillips
Beautiful Bureaucrat
Finalist
[ 46]
James Hannaham
Delicious Foods
Adam Johnson
Fortune Smiles
Anne Enright
The Green Road
2016
Adam Haslett
Imagine Me Gone
Winner
[ 47]
Dana Spiotta
Innocents and Others
Finalist
[ 48]
Lydia Millet
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Zadie Smith
Swing Time
Garth Greenwell
What Belongs to You
2017
Mohsin Hamid
Exit West
Winner
[ 49]
Claire Messud
The Burning Girl
Finalist
[ 50]
Victor LaValle
The Changeling
Vivek Shanbhag with Srinath Perur (trans.)
Ghachar Ghochar
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
2018
Rebecca Makkai
The Great Believers
Winner
[ 51]
Tayari Jones
An American Marriage
Finalist
[ 51]
Michael Ondaatje
Warlight
Esi Edugyan
Washington Black
Abby Geni
The Wildlands
2019
Ben Lerner
The Topeka School
Winner
[ 52] [ 53] [ 54]
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
Finalist
[ 53] [ 55]
Maaza Mengiste
The Shadow King
Madeline Ffitch
Stay and Fight
Tash Aw
We, the Survivors
2020
David Diop with Anna Moschovakis (trans.)
At Night All Blood Is Black
Winner
[ 56] [ 57]
Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji
Finalist
[ 58] [ 59]
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Likes
Danielle Evans
The Office of Historical Corrections
Peter Cameron
What Happens at Night
2021
Véronique Tadjo
In the Company of Men
Winner
[ 60] [ 61]
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
American Estrangement
Finalist
[ 61]
Mariana Enríquez with Megan McDowell (trans.)
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Joy Williams
Harrow
Claire Vaye Watkins
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
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