2019 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
2018 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
2017 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
2016 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett
2015 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Story of My Teeth
Valeria Luiselli
2014 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt
2013 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth L. Ozeki
2012 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
2011 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Luminarium
Alex Shakar
2010 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
2009 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Happy Marriage
Rafael Yglesias
2008 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Home
Marilynne Robinson
2007 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Be Near Me
Andrew O’Hagan
2006 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Woman in Jerusalem [translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin]
A. B. Yehoshua
2005 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez
2004 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Master
Colm Toibin
2003 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Pete Dexter
Train
2002 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Ian McEwan
Atonement
2001 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Mary Robison
Why Did I Ever
2000 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Assorted Fire Events: Stories
David Means
1999 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Freedom Song
Amit Chaudhuri
1998 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
1997 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
In the Rogue Blood
James Carlos Blake
1996 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
1995 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Blue Afternoon
William Boyd
1994 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
1993 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver
1992 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman
1991 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
White People
Allan Gurganus
1990 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Lantern Slides
Edna O’Brien
1989 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Heart of the Country
Fay Weldon
1988 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Marquez
1987 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Fools Crow
James Welch
1986 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
1984 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
1983 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
Schindler’s Ark
Thomas Keneally
1982 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
1981 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
1980 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction
