Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerFinding Nouf: A NovelZoë FerrarisZoë Ferraris’s electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family...Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistMosquitoRoma TearneAmazonSay You're One of ThemUwem AkpanAmazonThe Outcast: A NovelSadie JonesAmazonThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A NovelDavid WroblewskiAmazon

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears: A NovelDinaw MengestuSeventeen years after fleeing the Ethiopian revolution, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where he reflects on his past and the differences between his prospects and the life he imagined....Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistSkylark Farm: A NovelAntonia Arslan, Geoffrey BrockAmazonThe Last Chicken in America: A NovelEllen LitmanAmazonThe UnderstoryPamela ErensAmazonTwenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and MoneyRebecca CurtisAmazon

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerWhite Ghost GirlsAlice GreenwayA coming of age story of two American sisters in Hong Kong during the late 1960s. “A haunting novel written with the craft and grace of a master” (Isabel Allende). Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGolden Country: A NovelJennifer GilmoreAmazonMary: A NovelJanis Cooke NewmanAmazonSkinner's Drift: A NovelLisa FugardAmazonWhiteman: A NovelTony D'SouzaAmazon

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerBeasts of No Nation: A NovelUzodinma IwealaAs civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning debut novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Sudden Country: A NovelKaren FisherAmazonGarner: A NovelKirstin AllioAmazonJohn Crow's DevilMarlon JamesAmazonThe Dream Life of Sukhanov: A NovelOlga GrushinAmazon

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerPangs of LoveDavid Wong LouieCultures as well as generations clash in the funny and heartbreaking short stories that mark David Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Ploughshares Award, Pangs of Love explores the bizarre contradictions inherent in assimilation....Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistHow to Make an American Quilt: A NovelWhitney OttoAmazonTen Seconds: A NovelLouis EdwardsAmazonThe Book of Saints: A NovelNino RicciAmazonWartime LiesLouis BegleyAmazon

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A NovelMark HaddonLots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them'This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yello...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: StoriesJohn MurrayAmazonBrick Lane: A NovelMonica AliAmazonGoblin Fruit: StoriesDavid Marshall ChanAmazonThere Are Jews in My House: StoriesLara VapnyarAmazon

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerPrague: A NovelArthur PhillipsFive American expatriates living in Budapest in the early 1990s seek to establish themselves and make their fortunes in a city still haunted by the tragedies of its Communist past....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistEverything Is Illuminated: A NovelJonathan Safran FoerAmazonMan Walks Into a RoomNicole KraussAmazonThe ImpressionistHari KunzruAmazonThe Stars Can Wait: A NovelJay BasuAmazon

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Dark Room: A NovelRachel SeiffertIn The Dark Room, the experiences of three people are evoked with stunning emotional depth and psychological authenticity. A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer's assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the changing temp...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistCrawling At Night: A NovelNani PowerAmazonMy Dream of YouNuala O'FaolainAmazonThe Death of Vishnu: A NovelManil SuriAmazonThe Right Hand of SleepJohn WrayAmazon

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Romantics: A NovelPankaj MishraSamar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own country—a...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAn Obedient FatherAkhil SharmaAmazonSam the Cat and Other StoriesMatthew KlamAmazonThe Last Samurai: A NovelHelen DeWittAmazonWhite Teeth: A NovelZadie SmithAmazon

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmy and IsabelleElizabeth StroutFrom the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton ? Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for fifteen years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father, she has submerged herself in the ro...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistBy the ShoreGalaxy CrazeAmazonFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges: StoriesNathan EnglanderAmazonInterpreter of MaladiesJhumpa LahiriAmazonLast ThingsJenny OffillAmazon