Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe White HotelD.M. ThomasIt is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an...Amazon1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDad: A NovelWilliam WhartonAmazonEllis Island and Other StoriesMark HelprinAmazonThe Collected Stories of Elizabeth BowenElizabeth BowenAmazonThe Stories of Ray BradburyRay BradburyAmazonZuckerman UnboundPhilip RothAmazon

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Flag for SunriseRobert StoneA Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards...Amazon1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A NovelAnne TylerAmazonSixty StoriesDonald BarthelmeAmazonThe Collected StoriesIsaac Bashevis SingerAmazonThe Dean's DecemberSaul BellowAmazon

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerSchindler's Ark: (Schindler's List)Thomas KeneallyA stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust ......Amazon1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistChronicle of a Death ForetoldGabriel García MárquezAmazonThe Little Drummer Girl: A NovelJohn le CarréAmazonThe Name of the RoseUmberto EcoAmazonThe Philosopher's PupilIris MurdochAmazon

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimWhen The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It we...Amazon1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDemocracyJoan DidionAmazonHim With His Foot in His Mouth and Other StoriesSaul BellowAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazonThe Witches of EastwickJohn UpdikeAmazon

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLove MedicineLouise ErdrichThe first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the rese...Amazon1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAnnie JohnJamaica KincaidAmazonEmpire of the SunJ.G. BallardAmazonHotel du LacAnita BrooknerAmazonSlow DancingElizabeth BenedictAmazon

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Handmaid's Tale: A NovelMargaret Atwood...Amazon1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Perfect SpyJohn le CarréAmazonLake Wobegon DaysGarrison KeillorAmazonThe Accidental Tourist: A NovelAnne TylerAmazonThe Golden GateVikram SethAmazonThe Old GringoCarlos FuentesAmazon

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFools CrowJames WelchThe year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humil...Amazon1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Summons to MemphisPeter TaylorAmazonOf Love and ShadowsIsabel AllendeAmazonThat Night: A NovelAlice McDermottAmazonYou Must Remember ThisJoyce Carol OatesAmazon

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLove in the Time of CholeraGabriel García MárquezNobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminde...Amazon1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistLibraDon DeLilloAmazonMoon TigerPenelope LivelyAmazonShowdownJorge AmadoAmazonThe Fifth ChildDoris May LessingAmazon

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Heart of the CountryFay WeldonWhen Natalie's husband, Harry, kisses her and their two children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie immediately blames herself. If she hadn't been cheating on her husband every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, he never would have le...Amazon1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistMidnight SweetsBette PesetskyAmazonMother's girlElaine FeinsteinAmazonThe City of MarvelsEduardo Mendoza, Bernard MolloyAmazonThe Joy Luck Club: A NovelAmy TanAmazon

1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Second Coming: A NovelWalker PercyA successful man’s midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successf...Amazon1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy TooleAmazonBellefleurJoyce Carol OatesAmazonDarkness VisibleWilliam GoldingAmazonSmiley's PeopleJohn le CarréAmazon