Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerHarborLorraine AdamsA New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Fiction Book of the YearA tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes his wa...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A NovelLisa GlattAmazonEve Green: A NovelSusan FletcherAmazonNatasha and Other StoriesDavid BezmozgisAmazonRear View: StoriesPeter DuvalAmazon

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSour Heart, LennyJenny ZhangWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017 'Relegate anything else you're reading – there is no other book to be seen with now' The Times 'Obscene...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGoodbye, VitaminRachel KhongAmazonHer Body and Other PartiesCarmen Maria MachadoAmazonMy Absolute DarlingGabriel TallentAmazonThe IdiotElif BatumanAmazon

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe NixNathan HillThe best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' - John Irving Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the myster...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistSpill Simmer Falter WitherSara BaumeAmazonThe Bed MovedRebecca SchiffAmazonThe Whale: A Love StoryMark BeauregardAmazonWays to DisappearIdra NoveyAmazon

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe FishermenChigozie ObiomaA striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a chi...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAgainst the CountryBen MetcalfAmazonBinary StarSarah GerardAmazonGirl at WarSara NovicAmazonThe Miracle GirlAndrew RoeAmazon

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerFaces in the CrowdValeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from "one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing." (Alma Guillermoprieto)...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Girl is a Half-Formed ThingEimear McBrideAmazonMan V. Nature: StoriesDiane CookAmazonThe Heaven of Animals: StoriesDavid James PoissantAmazonWolf in White VanJohn DarnielleAmazon

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSeating Arrangements,Maggie ShipsteadThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. The weekend is full of champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discon...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistFobbit,David AbramsAmazonMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store: A Novel,Robin SloanAmazonShine Shine Shine*Lydia NetzerAmazonThe Natural Order of Things,Kevin P. KeatingAmazon

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSeating ArrangementsMaggie ShipsteadThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. The weekend is full of champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discon...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistFobbit: A NovelDavid AbramsAmazonMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A NovelRobin SloanAmazonShine Shine ShineLydia NetzerAmazonThe Natural Order of ThingsKevin P. KeatingAmazon

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerShards: A NovelIsmet PrcicA New York Times Notable Book. “Brilliant . . . With verbal glee, Prcic serves up a darkly comic vision of the terrors and misunderstandings of immigration” (Shelf Awareness). Ismet Prcic’s brilliant, provocative, and energetic debut novel is about a young...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistLeaving the Atocha Station: A NovelBen LernerAmazonTen Thousand Saints: A NovelEleanor HendersonAmazonThe Arriviste: A NovelJames WallensteinAmazonThe Art of Fielding: A NovelChad HarbachAmazon

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmerican Rust: A NovelPhilipp MeyerSet in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rustis a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss.It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty arou...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAn Elegy for EasterlyPetina GappahAmazonEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned: StoriesWells TowerAmazonIn Other Rooms, Other WondersDaniyal MueenuddinAmazonTinkersPaul HardingAmazon