Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFreedom Song: Three NovelsAmit ChaudhuriFreedom Song is vintage Amit Chaudhuri, playing with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistClose Range: Wyoming StoriesAnnie ProulxAmazonHouse of Sand and FogAndre Dubus IIIAmazonPlainsongKent HarufAmazonWaitingHa JinAmazon

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLuminarium: A NovelAlex ShakarThis Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning novel is a “dizzyingly smart and provocative” look at technology, spirituality, and the search for meaning (Dave Eggers). A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekl...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBinocular Vision: New & Selected StoriesEdith PearlmanAmazonGhost Light: A NovelJoseph O'ConnorAmazonThe Buddha in the Attic: A NovelJulie OtsukaAmazonThe Cat's Table: A NovelMichael OndaatjeAmazon

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A NovelBen FountainNew York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture “Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review “Mothers, father, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.” —MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadett...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistArcadiaLauren GroffAmazonMagnificence: A NovelLydia MilletAmazonTelegraph Avenue: A NovelMichael ChabonAmazonThe Middlesteins: A NovelJami AttenbergAmazon

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Tale for the Time Being,Ruth OzekiA brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or e...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistPercival Everett by Virgil RussellPercival EverettAmazonSpectacle: StoriesSusan SteinbergAmazonThe Maid’s Version: A NovelDaniel WoodrellAmazonThe Woman UpstairsClaire MessudAmazon

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Blazing WorldSiri HustvedtNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 **...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBoy, Snow, BirdHelen OyeyemiAmazonDept. of SpeculationJenny OffillAmazonSilence Once BegunJesse BallAmazonThe Emerald Light in the Air: StoriesDonald AntrimAmazon

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Story of My TeethValeria Luiselli, Translated by Christina MacSweeney...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBeautiful BureaucratHelen PhillipsAmazonDelicious FoodsJames HannahamAmazonFortune SmilesAdam JohnsonAmazonThe Green RoadAnne EnrightAmazon

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerImagine Me GoneAdam HaslettShe decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith....Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistInnocents and OthersDana SpiottaAmazonSweet Lamb of HeavenLydia MilletAmazonSwing TimeZadie SmithAmazonWhat Belongs to YouGarth GreenwellAmazon

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerExit WestMohsin HamidAn extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at nig...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistGhachar GhocharVivek Shanbhag, Srinath Perur (translator)AmazonSing, Unburied, SingJesmyn WardAmazonThe Burning GirlClaire MessudAmazonThe ChangelingVictor LaValleAmazon

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLantern Slides: StoriesEdna O'BrienWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction “Superb...[Lantern Slides] continues the quest for origin and explanation that has preoccupied O’Brien...Her stories unearth the primeval feelings buried just below the surface of nostalgia, using memo...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBaotownAnyi Wang, Martha AveryAmazonFriend of My YouthAlice MunroAmazonOrdinary Love and Good Will: Two NovellasJane SmileyAmazonReaching Tin RiverThea AstleyAmazon