1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner
![The Smell of Apples: A Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580959532-1962-image-3.jpg)
The Smell of Apples: A Novel
Mark Behr
The 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…
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist
![I Never Came to You in White](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580976569-3332-image-3.jpg)
I Never Came to You in White
Judith Farr
![I Was Amelia Earhart](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580845243-58767-image-3.jpg)
I Was Amelia Earhart
Jane Mendelsohn
![Resurrection Man](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966069-2501-image-3.jpg)
Resurrection Man
Eoin McNamee
![St. Burl's Obituary](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580957643-1806-image-3.jpg)
St. Burl’s Obituary
Daniel Akst
![The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581028114-6157-image-3.jpg)
The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
John Lanchester
![The Secret of the Bulls](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580962561-2212-image-3.jpg)
The Secret of the Bulls
José Raúl Bernardo
![The Veracruz Blues](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580943702-60445-image-3.jpg)