# Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

## Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1980 | Walker Percy | The Second Coming | Winner |
| 1980 | Joyce Carol Oates | Bellefleur | Finalist |
| 1980 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces | Finalist |
| 1980 | William Golding | Darkness Visible | Finalist |
| 1980 | John le Carré | Smiley's People | Finalist |
| 1981 | D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | Winner |
| 1981 | William Wharton | Dad | Finalist |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Bowen | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | Finalist |
| 1981 | Mark Helprin | Ellis Island and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 1981 | Ray Bradbury | The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Finalist |
| 1981 | Philip Roth | Zuckerman Unbound | Finalist |
| 1982 | Robert Stone | A Flag for Sunrise | Winner |
| 1982 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Collected Stories | Finalist |
| 1982 | Saul Bellow | The Dean's December | Finalist |
| 1982 | Anne Tyler | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Finalist |
| 1982 | Donald Barthelme | Sixty Stories | Finalist |
| 1983 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | Winner |
| 1983 | Gabriel García Márquez | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Finalist |
| 1983 | John le Carré | The Little Drummer Girl | Finalist |
| 1983 | Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | Finalist |
| 1983 | Iris Murdoch | The Philosopher's Pupil | Finalist |
| 1984 | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Winner |
| 1984 | Joan Didion | Democracy | Finalist |
| 1984 | Saul Bellow | Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 1984 | Harriet Doerr | Stones for Ibarra | Finalist |
| 1984 | John Updike | The Witches of Eastwick | Finalist |
| 1985 | Louise Erdrich | Love Medicine | Winner |
| 1985 | Jamaica Kincaid | Annie John | Finalist |
| 1985 | J. G. Ballard | Empire of the Sun | Finalist |
| 1985 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | Finalist |
| 1985 | Elizabeth Benedict | Slow Dancing | Finalist |
| 1986 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | Winner |
| 1986 | Anne Tyler | The Accidental Tourist | Finalist |
| 1986 | Vikram Seth | The Golden Gate | Finalist |
| 1986 | Garrison Keillor | Lake Wobegon Days | Finalist |
| 1986 | Carlos Fuentes | The Old Gringo | Finalist |
| 1986 | John le Carré | A Perfect Spy | Finalist |
| 1987 | James Welch | Fools Crow | Winner |
| 1987 | Isabel Allende | Of Love and Shadows | Finalist |
| 1987 | Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis | Finalist |
| 1987 | Alice McDermott | That Night | Finalist |
| 1987 | Joyce Carol Oates | You Must Remember This | Finalist |
| 1988 | Gabriel García Marquez | Love in the Time of Cholera | Winner |
| 1988 | Doris May Lessing | The Fifth Child | Finalist |
| 1988 | Don DeLillo | Libra | Finalist |
| 1988 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | Finalist |
| 1988 | Jorge Amado | Showdown | Finalist |
| 1989 | Fay Weldon | The Heart of the Country | Winner |
| 1989 | Eduardo Mendoza and Bernard Molloy | The City of Marvels | Finalist |
| 1989 | Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club | Finalist |
| 1989 | Bette Pesetsky | Midnight Sweets | Finalist |
| 1989 | Elaine Feinstein | Mother's Girl | Finalist |
| 1990 | Edna O'Brien | Lantern Slides | Winner |
| 1990 | Anyi Wang and Martha Avery | Baotown | Finalist |
| 1990 | Alice Munro | Friend of My Youth | Finalist |
| 1990 | Jane Smiley | Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas | Finalist |
| 1990 | Thea Astley | Reaching Tin River | Finalist |
| 1991 | Allan Gurganus | White People | Winner |
| 1991 | Claude Simon | The Acacia | Finalist |
| 1991 | J. M. Coetzee | Age of Iron | Finalist |
| 1991 | Annie Ernaux | A Woman’s Story | Finalist |
| 1991 | Sandra Cisneros | Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 1992 | Art Spiegelman | Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began | Winner |
| 1992 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres | Finalist |
| 1992 | Paule Marshall | Daughters | Finalist |
| 1992 | Randall Kenan | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead: Stories | Finalist |
| 1992 | Edna O’Brien | Time and Tide | Finalist |
| 1993 | Barbara Kingsolver | Pigs in Heaven | Winner |
| 1993 | Sue Miller | For Love | Finalist |
| 1993 | Cathleen Schine | Rameau's Niece | Finalist |
| 1993 | Helen Norris | The Burning Glass: Stories | Finalist |
| 1993 | William Trevor | William Trevor: The Collected Stories | Finalist |
| 1994 | David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | Winner |
| 1994 | Bharati Mukherjee | Holder of the World | Finalist |
| 1994 | William T. Vollmann | The Rifles: Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequence | Finalist |
| 1994 | Mark Salzman | The Soloist | Finalist |
| 1994 | David Leavitt | While England Sleeps | Finalist |
| 1995 | William Boyd | The Blue Afternoon | Winner |
| 1995 | Kate Grenville | Albion's Story | Finalist |
| 1995 | William Trevor | Felicia's Journey | Finalist |
| 1995 | Alice Munro | Open Secrets: Stories | Finalist |
| 1995 | Bradford Morrow | Trinity Fields | Finalist |
| 1996 | Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | Winner |
| 1996 | Louis Begley | About Schmidt | Finalist |
| 1996 | Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Finalist |
| 1996 | A.B. Yehoshua | Open Heart | Finalist |
| 1996 | Tomás Eloy Martínez | Santa Evita | Finalist |
| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 1996 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | Finalist |
| 1996 | R.C. Binstock | Tree of Heaven | Finalist |
| 1997 | James Carlos Blake | In the Rogue Blood | Winner |
| 1997 | Louis B. Jones | California's Over | Finalist |
| 1997 | Seamus Deane | Reading in the Dark | Finalist |
| 1997 | Francisco Goldman | The Ordinary Seaman | Finalist |
| 1997 | Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway | The Reader | Finalist |
| 1998 | W. G. Sebald with Michael Hulse (trans.) | The Rings of Saturn | Winner |
| 1998 | William Trevor | Death in Summer | Finalist |
| 1998 | Susan Minot | Evening | Finalist |
| 1998 | Richard Price | Freedomland | Finalist |
| 1998 | Philip Roth | I Married a Communist | Finalist |
| 1999 | Amit Chaudhuri | Freedom Song: Three Novels | Winner |
| 1999 | Annie Proulx | Close Range: Wyoming Stories | Finalist |
| 1999 | Andre Dubus III | House of Sand and Fog | Finalist |
| 1999 | Kent Haruf | Plainsong | Finalist |
| 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting | Finalist |
| 2000 | David Means | Assorted Fire Events | Winner |
| 2000 | Peter Ho Davies | Equal Love | Finalist |
| 2000 | Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Finalist |
| 2000 | Philip Roth | The Human Stain | Finalist |
| 2000 | Joy Williams | The Quick and the Dead | Finalist |
| 2001 | Mary Robison | Why Did I Ever | Winner |
| 2001 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | By the Sea | Finalist |
| 2001 | Alice Munro | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories | Finalist |
| 2001 | Colson Whitehead | John Henry Days | Finalist |
| 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | Finalist |
| 2002 | Ian McEwan | Atonement | Winner |
| 2002 | Peter Cameron | The City of Your Final Destination | Finalist |
| 2002 | Kate Jennings | Moral Hazard | Finalist |
| 2002 | Aleksandar Hemon | Nowhere Man | Finalist |
| 2002 | Joanna Scott | Tourmaline | Finalist |
| 2003 | Pete Dexter | Train | Winner |
| 2003 | Michelle Huneven | Jamesland | Finalist |
| 2003 | Tobias Wolff | Old School | Finalist |
| 2003 | Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake | Finalist |
| 2003 | Sherman Alexie | Ten Little Indians | Finalist |
| 2004 | Colm Tóibín | The Master | Winner |
| 2004 | Russell Banks | The Darling | Finalist |
| 2004 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | Finalist |
| 2004 | Chris Abani | GraceLand | Finalist |
| 2004 | Joy Williams | Honored Guest: Stories | Finalist |
| 2005 | Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman (trans.) | Memories of My Melancholy Whores | Winner |
| 2005 | Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore | Finalist |
| 2005 | Nick Hornby | A Long Way Down | Finalist |
| 2005 | E.L. Doctorow | The March | Finalist |
| 2005 | Mary Gaitskill | Veronica | Finalist |
| 2006 | A. B. Yehoshua with Hillel Halkin (trans.) | A Woman in Jerusalem | Winner |
| 2006 | David Mitchell | Black Swan Green | Finalist |
| 2006 | Susan Straight | A Million Nightingales | Finalist |
| 2006 | Peter Orner | The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo | Finalist |
| 2006 | Daniel Woodrell | Winter's Bone | Finalist |
| 2007 | Andrew O'Hagan | Be Near Me | Winner |
| 2007 | Junot Díaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Finalist |
| 2007 | Stewart O’Nan | Last Night at the Lobster | Finalist |
| 2007 | Per Petterson | Out Stealing Horses | Finalist |
| 2007 | Marianne Wiggins | The Shadow Catcher | Finalist |
| 2008 | Marilynne Robinson | Home | Winner |
| 2008 | Richard Price | Lush Life | Finalist |
| 2008 | Marisa Silver | The God of War | Finalist |
| 2008 | Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | Finalist |
| 2008 | Joan Silber | The Size of the World | Finalist |
| 2009 | Rafael Yglesias | A Happy Marriage | Winner |
| 2009 | Michelle Huneven | Blame | Finalist |
| 2009 | Jill Ciment | Heroic Measures | Finalist |
| 2009 | Jane Gardam | The Man in the Wooden Hat | Finalist |
| 2009 | Kate Walbert | A Short History of Women | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jennifer Egan | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Winner |
| 2010 | Frederick Reiken | Day for Night | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jonathan Franzen | Freedom | Finalist |
| 2010 | Rick Bass | Nashville Chrome | Finalist |
| 2010 | Richard Bausch | Something Is Out There: Stories | Finalist |
| 2011 | Alex Shakar | Luminarium | Winner |
| 2011 | Edith Pearlman | Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories | Finalist |
| 2011 | Julie Otsuka | The Buddha in the Attic | Finalist |
| 2011 | Michael Ondaatje | The Cat's Table | Finalist |
| 2011 | Joseph O'Connor | Ghost Light | Finalist |
| 2012 | Ben Fountain | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Winner |
| 2012 | Lauren Groff | Arcadia | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lydia Millet | Magnificence | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jami Attenberg | The Middlesteins | Finalist |
| 2012 | Michael Chabon | Telegraph Avenue | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | Winner |
| 2013 | Daniel Woodrell | The Maid’s Version | Finalist |
| 2013 | Percival Everett | Percival Everett by Virgil Russell | Finalist |
| 2013 | Susan Steinberg | Spectacle: Stories | Finalist |
| 2013 | Claire Messud | The Woman Upstairs | Finalist |
| 2014 | Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World | Winner |
| 2014 | Helen Oyeyemi | Boy, Snow, Bird | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jenny Offill | Dept. of Speculation | Finalist |
| 2014 | Donald Antrim | The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jesse Ball | Silence Once Begun | Finalist |
| 2015 | Valeria Luiselli | The Story of My Teeth | Winner |
| 2015 | Helen Phillips | Beautiful Bureaucrat | Finalist |
| 2015 | James Hannaham | Delicious Foods | Finalist |
| 2015 | Adam Johnson | Fortune Smiles | Finalist |
| 2015 | Anne Enright | The Green Road | Finalist |
| 2016 | Adam Haslett | Imagine Me Gone | Winner |
| 2016 | Dana Spiotta | Innocents and Others | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lydia Millet | Sweet Lamb of Heaven | Finalist |
| 2016 | Zadie Smith | Swing Time | Finalist |
| 2016 | Garth Greenwell | What Belongs to You | Finalist |
| 2017 | Mohsin Hamid | Exit West | Winner |
| 2017 | Claire Messud | The Burning Girl | Finalist |
| 2017 | Victor LaValle | The Changeling | Finalist |
| 2017 | Vivek Shanbhag with Srinath Perur (trans.) | Ghachar Ghochar | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jesmyn Ward | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Finalist |
| 2018 | Rebecca Makkai | The Great Believers | Winner |
| 2018 | Tayari Jones | An American Marriage | Finalist |
| 2018 | Michael Ondaatje | Warlight | Finalist |
| 2018 | Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Finalist |
| 2018 | Abby Geni | The Wildlands | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ben Lerner | The Topeka School | Winner |
| 2019 | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | Finalist |
| 2019 | Maaza Mengiste | The Shadow King | Finalist |
| 2019 | Madeline Ffitch | Stay and Fight | Finalist |
| 2019 | Tash Aw | We, the Survivors | Finalist |
| 2020 | David Diop with Anna Moschovakis (trans.) | At Night All Blood Is Black | Winner |
| 2020 | Akwaeke Emezi | The Death of Vivek Oji | Finalist |
| 2020 | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | Likes | Finalist |
| 2020 | Danielle Evans | The Office of Historical Corrections | Finalist |
| 2020 | Peter Cameron | What Happens at Night | Finalist |
| 2021 | Véronique Tadjo | In the Company of Men | Winner |
| 2021 | Saïd Sayrafiezadeh | American Estrangement | Finalist |
| 2021 | Mariana Enríquez with Megan McDowell (trans.) | The Dangers of Smoking in Bed | Finalist |
| 2021 | Joy Williams | Harrow | Finalist |
| 2021 | Claire Vaye Watkins | I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness | Finalist |
| 2022 | Mircea Cărtărescu with Sean Cotter (trans.) | Solenoid | Winner |
| 2022 | Anna Dorn | Exalted | Finalist |
| 2022 | James Hannaham | Didn't Nobody Give a S— What Happened to Carlotta | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jamil Jan Kochai | The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 2022 | Fernanda Melchor (trans. by Sophie Hughes) | Paradais | Finalist |
| 2023 | Ed Park | Same Bed Different Dreams | Winner |
| 2023 | Susie Boyt | Loved and Missed | Finalist |
| 2023 | Yiyun Li | Wednesday's Child | Finalist |
| 2023 | Elizabeth McKenzie | The Dog of the North | Finalist |
| 2023 | Justin Torres | Blackouts | Finalist |