Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerKalimantaanC.S. GodshalkKalimantaan' - the old name for Borneo - tells of the founding of a small empire by an extraordinary man and a handful of his followers. Within 10 years Gideon Barr conquers an area the size of England and Wales, but the personal cost is enormous....Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Crowded HeartNicholas PapandreouAmazonBlue BossaBart SchneiderAmazonHunger: A Novella and StoriesLan Samantha ChangAmazonThe Undiscovered CountrySamantha GillisonAmazon

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerDon't Erase Me: StoriesCarolyn FerrellPortrays the lives of Black teenagers in New York's South Bronx, where, in the title story, a woman recounts her life after learning she has AIDS...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Child Out of AlcatrazTara IsonAmazonA Crime in the NeighborhoodSuzanne BerneAmazonRound RockMichelle HunevenAmazonThe God of Small ThingsArundhati RoyAmazon

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Smell of Apples: A NovelMark BehrThe 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...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistI Never Came to You in WhiteJudith FarrAmazonI Was Amelia EarhartJane MendelsohnAmazonResurrection ManEoin McNameeAmazonSt. Burl's ObituaryDaniel AkstAmazonThe Debt to Pleasure: A NovelJohn LanchesterAmazonThe Secret of the BullsJosé Raúl BernardoAmazonThe Veracruz BluesMark WinegardnerAmazon

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmerican StudiesMark Merlis62-year-old Reeve lies in a hospital bed - the result of a vicious beating. As he convalesces, he recontructs his own history - not the history of his life and of his mentor, Tom Slater, but of 50 years of America and the gay experience. Merlis' award-winn...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Stone BoatAndrew SolomonAmazonLooking Through Glass: A NovelMukul KesavanAmazonThe Good NegressA.J. VerdelleAmazonThe Point and Other StoriesCharles D'AmbrosioAmazon

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Year of the Frog: A NovelMartin M. Simecka, Peter PetroIn Czechoslovakia during the 1980s, young Milan comforts himself with long-distance running and a woman named Tania, when he is forbidden entrance into the university because of his father's political activities. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Place Where the Sea RemembersSandra BenitezAmazonIn Search of BernabéGraciela LimónAmazonOn LoveAlain de BottonAmazonThe Indian ChroniclesJose BarreiroAmazon

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerLove EnterPaul KafkaA romantic, computer-age love story set in Paris and New Orleans. Young Dan Shoenfeld, spending a year abroad after college, falls in love with Bou and Margot, two women who happen to be in love with each other. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize f...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistCome to Me: StoriesAmy BloomAmazonLike Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home RemediesLaura EsquivelAmazonMother Rocket: StoriesRita CiresiAmazonMourning Doves: StoriesJudy TroyAmazon

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerHigh CottonDarryl PinckneyAn elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction Shortlist1959: A NovelThulani DavisAmazonAfter MoondogJane ShapiroAmazonMarine LifeLinda SvendsenAmazonShe's Come UndoneWally LambAmazon