Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Happy Marriage: A NovelRafael YglesiasA Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says g...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Short History of Women: A NovelKate WalbertAmazonBlame: A NovelMichelle HunevenAmazonHeroic Measures: A NovelJill CimentAmazonThe Man in the Wooden HatJane GardamAmazon

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerAssorted Fire Events: StoriesDavid MeansUpon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, taking in a breathtaking array of voices and experiences...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistEqual LovePeter Ho DaviesAmazonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayMichael ChabonAmazonThe Human StainPhilip RothAmazonThe Quick and the DeadJoy WilliamsAmazon

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerWhy Did I Ever: A NovelMary Robison"Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel." —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her sec...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBy the SeaAbdulrazak GurnahAmazonHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: StoriesAlice MunroAmazonJohn Henry DaysColson WhiteheadAmazonThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenAmazon

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerAtonement: A NovelIan McEwanGENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence', Independent .'Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistMoral Hazard: A NovelKate JenningsAmazonNowhere ManAleksandar HemonAmazonThe City of Your Final DestinationPeter CameronAmazonTourmaline: A NovelJoanna ScottAmazon

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerTrain: A NovelPete Dexter...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistJameslandMichelle HunevenAmazonOld SchoolTobias WolffAmazonTen Little IndiansSherman AlexieAmazonThe Namesake: A NovelJhumpa LahiriAmazon

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe MasterColm Tóibín“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profound...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistGilead: A NovelMarilynne RobinsonAmazonGraceLand: A NovelChris AbaniAmazonHonored Guest: StoriesJoy WilliamsAmazonThe DarlingRussell BanksAmazon

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerMemories of My Melancholy Whores: A NovelGabriel García Márquez, Edith GrossmanAVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assi...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Long Way Down: A NovelNick HornbyAmazonKafka on the Shore: A NovelHaruki MurakamiAmazonThe March: A NovelE.L. DoctorowAmazonVeronica: A NovelMary GaitskillAmazon

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Woman in JerusalemA.B. YehoshuaThis novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is “a masterpiece” (Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review). A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her ...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Million Nightingales: A NovelSusan StraightAmazonBlack Swan Green: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonThe Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A NovelPeter OrnerAmazonWinter's Bone: A NovelDaniel WoodrellAmazon

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerBe Near Me: A NovelAndrew O'HaganWhen an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes c...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistLast Night at the Lobster: A NovelStewart O'NanAmazonOut Stealing HorsesPer PettersonAmazonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A NovelJunot DíazAmazonThe Shadow Catcher: A NovelMarianne WigginsAmazon

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerHome: A NovelMarilynne RobinsonHundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Io...Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistLush Life: A NovelRichard PriceAmazonThe God of War: A NovelMarisa SilverAmazonThe Secret Scripture: A NovelSebastian BarryAmazonThe Size of the World: A NovelJoan SilberAmazon