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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients[edit]

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1980 Walker Percy The Second Coming Winner [1]
Joyce Carol Oates Bellefleur Finalist [1]
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
William Golding Darkness Visible
John le Carré Smiley’s People
1981 D. M. Thomas The White Hotel Winner [2]
William Wharton Dad Finalist [2]
Elizabeth Bowen The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Mark Helprin Ellis Island and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Philip Roth Zuckerman Unbound
1982 Robert Stone A Flag for Sunrise Winner [3]
Isaac Bashevis Singer The Collected Stories Finalist [3]
Saul Bellow The Dean's December
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Donald Barthelme Sixty Stories
1983 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Winner [4]
Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold Finalist [4]
John le Carré The Little Drummer Girl
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Iris Murdoch The Philosopher's Pupil
1984 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Winner [5]
Joan Didion Democracy Finalist [5]
Saul Bellow Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra
John Updike The Witches of Eastwick
1985 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine Winner [6]
Jamaica Kincaid Annie John Finalist [6]
J. G. Ballard Empire of the Sun
Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
Elizabeth Benedict Slow Dancing
1986 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Winner [7]
Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist Finalist [7]
Vikram Seth The Golden Gate
Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days
Carlos Fuentes The Old Gringo
John le Carré A Perfect Spy
1987 James Welch Fools Crow Winner [8]
Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows Finalist [8]
Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis
Alice McDermott That Night
Joyce Carol Oates You Must Remember This
1988 Gabriel García Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera Winner [9]
Doris May Lessing The Fifth Child Finalist [9]
Don DeLillo Libra
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
Jorge Amado Showdown
1989 Fay Weldon The Heart of the Country Winner [10]
Eduardo Mendoza and Bernard Molloy The City of Marvels Finalist [10]
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Bette Pesetsky Midnight Sweets
Elaine Feinstein Mother’s Girl
1990 Edna O'Brien Lantern Slides Winner [11]
Anyi Wang and Martha Avery Baotown Finalist [11]
Alice Munro Friend of My Youth
Jane Smiley Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas
Thea Astley Reaching Tin River
1991 Allan Gurganus White People Winner [12]
Claude Simon The Acacia Finalist [12]
J.M. Coetzee Age of Iron
Annie Ernaux A Woman’s Story
Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
1992 Art Spiegelman Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began Winner [13]
Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres Finalist [13]
Paule Marshall Daughters
Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead: Stories
Edna O’Brien Time and Tide
1993 Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven Winner [14]
Sue Miller For Love Finalist [14]
Cathleen Schine Rameau’s Niece
Helen Norris The Burning Glass: Stories
William Trevor William Trevor: The Collected Stories
1994 David Malouf Remembering Babylon Winner [15]
Bharati Mukherjee Holder of the World Finalist [15]
William T. Vollmann The Rifles: Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequence
Mark Salzman The Soloist
David Leavitt While England Sleeps
1995 William Boyd The Blue Afternoon Winner [16]
Kate Grenville Albion’s Story Finalist [16]
William Trevor Felicia’s Journey
Alice Munro Open Secrets: Stories
Bradford Morrow Trinity Fields
1996 Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Winner [17]
Louis Begley About Schmidt Finalist [17]
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself
A.B. Yehoshua Open Heart
Tomás Eloy Martínez Santa Evita
Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories
Pat Barker The Ghost Road
R.C. Binstock Tree of Heaven
1997 James Carlos Blake In the Rogue Blood Winner [18]
Louis B. Jones California’s Over Finalist [18]
Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark
Francisco Goldman The Ordinary Seaman
Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway The Reader
1998 W. G. Sebald with Michael Hulse (trans.) The Rings of Saturn Winner [19]
William Trevor Death in Summer Finalist [19]
Susan Minot Evening
Richard Price Freedomland
Philip Roth I Married a Communist
1999 Amit Chaudhuri Freedom Song: Three Novels Winner [20]
Annie Proulx Close Range: Wyoming Stories Finalist [20]
Andre Dubus III House of Sand and Fog
Kent Haruf Plainsong
Ha Jin Waiting
2000 David Means Assorted Fire Events Winner [21]
Peter Ho Davies Equal Love Finalist [21]
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Joy Williams The Quick and the Dead
2001 Mary Robison Why Did I Ever Winner [22]
Abdulrazak Gurnah By the Sea Finalist [22]
Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Colson Whitehead John Henry Days
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
2002 Ian McEwan Atonement Winner [23]
Peter Cameron The City of Your Final Destination Finalist [23]
Kate Jennings Moral Hazard
Aleksandar Hemon Nowhere Man
Joanna Scott Tourmaline
2003 Pete Dexter Train Winner [24]
Michelle Huneven Jamesland Finalist [24]
Tobias Wolff Old School
Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake
Sherman Alexie Ten Little Indians
2004 Colm Tóibín The Master Winner [25]
Russell Banks The Darling Finalist [25]
Marilynne Robinson Gilead
Chris Abani GraceLand
Joy Williams Honored Guest: Stories
2005 Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman (trans.) Memories of My Melancholy Whores Winner [26]
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore Finalist [26]
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
E.L. Doctorow The March
Mary Gaitskill Veronica
2006 A. B. Yehoshua with Hillel Halkin (trans.) A Woman in Jerusalem Winner [27][28]
David Mitchell Black Swan Green Finalist [27]
Susan Straight A Million Nightingales
Peter Orner The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Daniel Woodrell Winter’s Bone
2007 Andrew O'Hagan Be Near Me Winner [29]
Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Finalist [29]
Stewart O’Nan Last Night at the Lobster
Per Petterson Out Stealing Horses
Marianne Wiggins The Shadow Catcher
2008 Marilynne Robinson Home Winner [30][31][32]
Richard Price Lush Life Finalist [33]
Marisa Silver The God of War
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
Joan Silber The Size of the World
2009 Rafael Yglesias A Happy Marriage Winner [34]
Michelle Huneven Blame Finalist [34]
Jill Ciment Heroic Measures
Jane Gardam The Man in the Wooden Hat
Kate Walbert A Short History of Women
2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Winner [35]
Frederick Reiken Day for Night Finalist [35]
Jonathan Franzen Freedom
Rick Bass Nashville Chrome
Richard Bausch Something Is Out There: Stories
2011 Alex Shakar Luminarium Winner [36][37]
Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories Finalist [38]
Julie Otsuka The Buddha in the Attic
Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table
Joseph O'Connor Ghost Light
2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Winner [39][40]
Lauren Groff Arcadia Finalist [41]
Lydia Millet Magnificence
Jami Attenberg The Middlesteins
Michael Chabon Telegraph Avenue
2013 Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being Winner [42]
Daniel Woodrell The Maid’s Version Finalist [43]
Percival Everett Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Susan Steinberg Spectacle: Stories
Claire Messud The Woman Upstairs
2014 Siri Hustvedt The Blazing World Winner [44]
Helen Oyeyemi Boy, Snow, Bird Finalist [45]
Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation
Donald Antrim The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
Jesse Ball Silence Once Begun
2015 Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth Winner [46]
Helen Phillips Beautiful Bureaucrat Finalist [46]
James Hannaham Delicious Foods
Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles
Anne Enright The Green Road
2016 Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone Winner [47]
Dana Spiotta Innocents and Others Finalist [48]
Lydia Millet Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Zadie Smith Swing Time
Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You
2017 Mohsin Hamid Exit West Winner [49]
Claire Messud The Burning Girl Finalist [50]
Victor LaValle The Changeling
Vivek Shanbhag with Srinath Perur (trans.) Ghachar Ghochar
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
2018 Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers Winner [51]
Tayari Jones An American Marriage Finalist [51]
Michael Ondaatje Warlight
Esi Edugyan Washington Black
Abby Geni The Wildlands
2019 Ben Lerner The Topeka School Winner [52][53][54]
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys Finalist [53][55]
Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King
Madeline Ffitch Stay and Fight
Tash Aw We, the Survivors
2020 David Diop with Anna Moschovakis (trans.) At Night All Blood Is Black Winner [56][57]
Akwaeke Emezi The Death of Vivek Oji Finalist [58][59]
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Likes
Danielle Evans The Office of Historical Corrections
Peter Cameron What Happens at Night
2021 Véronique Tadjo In the Company of Men Winner [60][61]
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh American Estrangement Finalist [61]
Mariana Enríquez with Megan McDowell (trans.) The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Joy Williams Harrow
Claire Vaye Watkins I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
2022 Mircea Cărtărescu (translation by Sean Cotter) Solenoid Winner [62]
Anna Dorn Exalted Finalist
James Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a S— What Happened to Carlotta
Jamil Jan Kochai The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Fernanda Melchor (translation by Sophie Hughes) Paradais

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