1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

The Smell of Apples: A Novel

Mark Behr

The harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair…

I Never Came to You in White

Judith Farr

I Was Amelia Earhart

Jane Mendelsohn

Resurrection Man

Eoin McNamee

St. Burl’s Obituary

Daniel Akst

The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel

John Lanchester

The Secret of the Bulls

José Raúl Bernardo

The Veracruz Blues

Mark Winegardner