Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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