2019 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
2018 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
2017 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Sour Heart: Stories
Jenny Zhang
2014 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Faces in the Crowd
Valeria Luiselli
2013 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
We Need New Names
Noviolet Bulawayo
2012 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Seating Arrangements
Maggie Shipstead
2011 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Shards
Ismet Prcic
2010 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The House of Tomorrow
Peter Bognanni
2009 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
American Rust,
Philipp Meyer
2008 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Finding Nouf
Zoë Ferraris
2007 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
2006 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
White Ghost Girls
Alice Greenway
2005 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Beasts of No Nation
Uzodinma Iweala
2004 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Harbor
Lorraine Adams
2003 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
2002 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Prague
Arthur Phillips
2001 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Dark Room
Rachel Seiffert
2000 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
1999 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout
1998 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Kalimantaan
C. S. Godshalk
1997 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Don’t Erase Me
Carolyn Ferrell
1996 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Smell of Apples
Mark Behr
1995 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
American Studies
Mark Merlis
1994 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
The Year of the Frog
Martin M. Šimecka
1993 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
Love
Paul Kafka
1992 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
High Cotton
Darryl Pinckney
1991 L.A. Times Book Prize – First Fiction
