Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerWhite PeopleAllan GurganusA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triumphs o...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Woman's StoryAnnie ErnauxAmazonAge of Iron: A NovelJ.M. CoetzeeAmazonThe AcaciaClaude SimonAmazonWoman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesSandra CisnerosAmazon

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerMaus: A Survivor's Tale: Volume 2. And Here My Troubles BeganArt SpiegelmanIn a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Thousand Acres: A NovelJane SmileyAmazonDaughtersPaule MarshallAmazonLet the Dead Bury Their Dead: StoriesRandall KenanAmazonTime and TideEdna O'BrienAmazon

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerPigs in HeavenBarbara KingsolverMother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love. Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistFor LoveSue MillerAmazonRameau's NieceCathleen SchineAmazonThe Burning Glass: StoriesHelen NorrisAmazonWilliam Trevor: The Collected StoriesWilliam TrevorAmazon

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerRemembering BabylonDavid MaloufA searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and t...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistHolder of the World: A NovelBharati MukherjeeAmazonThe Rifles: Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequenceWilliam T. VollmannAmazonThe SoloistMark SalzmanAmazonWhile England SleepsDavid LeavittAmazon

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Blue AfternoonWilliam BoydWINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________ A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAlbion's StoryKate GrenvilleAmazonFelicia's JourneyWilliam TrevorAmazonOpen Secrets: StoriesAlice MunroAmazonTrinity FieldsBradford MorrowAmazon

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Fine BalanceRohinton MistryWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The governme...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAbout Schmidt: A NovelLouis BegleyAmazonEvery Man for HimselfBeryl BainbridgeAmazonOpen Heart: A NovelA.B. YehoshuaAmazonSanta EvitaTomás Eloy MartinézAmazonShip Fever and Other StoriesAndrea BarrettAmazonThe Ghost RoadPat BarkerAmazonTree of Heaven: A NovelR.C. BinstockAmazon

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerIn the Rogue BloodJames Carlos BlakeHeading out to nineteenth-century Texas to recover from their sister's murder and their father's alcoholism, brothers Edward and John Little find themselves on opposing sides during the Mexican-American War. Winner of the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistCalifornia's Over: A novelLouis B. JonesAmazonReading in the Dark: A NovelSeamus DeaneAmazonThe Ordinary SeamanFrancisco GoldmanAmazonThe Reader: A NovelBernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayAmazon

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Rings of SaturnW.G. Sebald, Michael Hulse"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDeath in SummerWilliam TrevorAmazonEveningSusan MinotAmazonFreedomlandRichard PriceAmazonI Married a CommunistPhilip RothAmazon