Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction 2019 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Topeka School Ben Lerner Amazon 2018 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai Amazon 2017 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Exit West Mohsin Hamid Amazon 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Imagine Me Gone Adam Haslett Amazon 2015 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Story of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli Amazon 2014 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt Amazon 2013 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction A Tale for the Time Being Ruth L. Ozeki Amazon 2012 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain Amazon 2011 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Luminarium Alex Shakar Amazon 2010 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Amazon 2009 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias Amazon 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Home Marilynne Robinson Amazon 2007 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Be Near Me Andrew O’Hagan Amazon 2006 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction A Woman in Jerusalem [translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin] A. B. Yehoshua Amazon 2005 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez Amazon 2004 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Master Colm Toibin Amazon 2003 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Pete Dexter Train Amazon 2002 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Ian McEwan Atonement Amazon 2001 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Mary Robison Why Did I Ever Amazon 2000 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Assorted Fire Events: Stories David Means Amazon 1999 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Freedom Song Amit Chaudhuri Amazon 1998 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald Amazon 1997 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction In the Rogue Blood James Carlos Blake Amazon 1996 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Amazon 1995 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Blue Afternoon William Boyd Amazon 1994 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Remembering Babylon David Malouf Amazon 1993 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver Amazon 1992 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale Art Spiegelman Amazon 1991 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction White People Allan Gurganus Amazon 1990 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Lantern Slides Edna O’Brien Amazon 1989 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Heart of the Country Fay Weldon Amazon 1988 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Marquez Amazon 1987 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Fools Crow James Welch Amazon 1986 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Amazon 1985 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Amazon 1984 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera Amazon 1983 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally Amazon 1982 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction A Flag for Sunrise Robert Stone Amazon 1981 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The White Hotel D.M. Thomas Amazon 1980 L.A. Times Book Prize – Fiction The Second Coming Walker Percy Amazon