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The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 show more of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. show less
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All, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
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Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (8), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (5), 1992 (5), 1991 (5), 1990 (5), 1989 (5), 1988 (5), 1987 (5), 1986 (6), 1985 (5), 1984 (5), 1983 (5), 1982 (5), 1981 (6), 1980 (5)
Announced:
April 19: Winner2023 Recent
February 21: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 44

WorkYear
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park2023
Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu2022
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo2021
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop2020
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner2019
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai2018
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid2017
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett2016
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli2015
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain2012
Luminarium by Alex Shakar2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan2010
A Happy Marriage: A Novel by Rafael Yglesias2009
Home by Marilynne Robinson2008
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan2007
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua2006
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez2005
The Master by Colm Tóibín2004
Train by Pete Dexter2003
Atonement by Ian McEwan2002
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison2001
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means2000
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri1999
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald1998
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake1997
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry1996
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd1995
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf1994
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver1993
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman1992
White People by Allan Gurganus1991
Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien1990
The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon1989
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez1988
Fools Crow by James Welch1987
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood1986
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich1985
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1984
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally1983
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone1982
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas1981
The Second Coming by Walker Percy1980

Finalist 225

WorkYear
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park2023
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt2023
Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li2023
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie2023
Blackouts by Justin Torres2023
Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu2022
Exalted by Anna Dorn2022
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham2022
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai2022
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor2022
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo2021
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana Enríquez2021
American Estrangement: Stories by Said Sayrafiezadeh2021
I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins2021
Harrow by Joy Williams2021
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop2020
Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum2020
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron2020
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi2020
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans2020
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner2019
We, The Survivors by Tash Aw2019
Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch2019
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead2019
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai2018
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan2018
The Wildlands by Abby Geni2018
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones2018
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje2018
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid2017
The Changeling by Victor LaValle2017
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud2017
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward2017
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett2016
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell2016
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith2016
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta2016
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli2015
The Green Road by Anne Enright2015
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson2015
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips2015
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt2014
The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories by Donald Antrim2014
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill2014
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki2013
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett2013
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud2013
Spectacle: Stories by Susan Steinberg2013
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain2012
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg2012
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff2012
Magnificence by Lydia Millet2012
Luminarium by Alex Shakar2011
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor2011
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje2011
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan2010
Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass2010
Something Is Out There: Stories by Richard Bausch2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen2010
Day For Night by Frederick Reiken2010
A Happy Marriage: A Novel by Rafael Yglesias2009
Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment2009
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam2009
Blame by Michelle Huneven2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert2009
Home by Marilynne Robinson2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry2008
Lush Life by Richard Price2008
The Size of the World by Joan Silber2008
The God of War by Marisa Silver2008
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz2007
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins2007
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell2006
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner2006
A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight2006
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell2006
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow2005
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill2005
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby2005
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami2005
The Master by Colm Tóibín2004
Graceland by Chris Abani2004
The Darling by Russell Banks2004
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson2004
Honored Guest: Stories by Joy Williams2004
Train by Pete Dexter2003
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie2003
Jamesland by Michelle Huneven2003
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri2003
Old School by Tobias Wolff2003
Atonement by Ian McEwan2002
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron2002
Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon2002
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings2002
Tourmaline by Joanna Scott2002
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen2001
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah2001
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro2001
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead2001
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means2000
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon2000
Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies2000
The Human Stain by Philip Roth2000
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams2000
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri1999
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III1999
Plainsong by Kent Haruf1999
Waiting by Ha Jin1999
Close Range by Annie Proulx1999
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald1998
Evening by Susan Minot1998
Freedomland by Richard Price1998
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth1998
Death in Summer by William Trevor1998
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake1997
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane1997
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman1997
California's Over by Louis B. Jones1997
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink1997
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry1996
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge1996
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker1996
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett1996
About Schmidt by Louis Begley1996
Tree of Heaven by R. C. Binstock1996
Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez1996
Open Heart by Abraham B. Yehoshua1996
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd1995
Dark Places by Kate Grenville1995
Trinity Fields by Bradford Morrow1995
Open Secrets by Alice Munro1995
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor1995
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf1994
While England Sleeps by David Leavitt1994
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee1994
The Soloist by Mark Salzman1994
The Rifles by William T. Vollmann1994
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver1993
For Love by Sue Miller1993
The Burning Glass by Helen Norris1993
Rameau's Niece by Cathleen Schine1993
Collected Stories by William Trevor1993
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman1992
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan1992
Daughters by Paule Marshall1992
Time and Tide by Edna O'Brien1992
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley1992
White People by Allan Gurganus1991
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros1991
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee1991
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux1991
The Acacia by Claude Simon1991
Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien1990
Reaching Tin River by Thea Astley1990
The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel1990
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice Munro1990
Baotown by Anyi Wang1990
The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon1989
Mother's Girl by Elaine Feinstein1989
The City of Marvels by Eduardo Mendoza1989
Midnight Sweets by Bette Pesetsky1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan1989
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez1988
Showdown by Jorge Amado1988
Libra by Don DeLillo1988
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing1988
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively1988
Fools Crow by James Welch1987
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende1987
That Night by Alice McDermott1987
You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates1987
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor1987
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood1986
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes1986
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor1986
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré1986
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth1986
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler1986
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich1985
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard1985
Slow Dancing by Elizabeth Benedict1985
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner1985
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid1985
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1984
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow1984
Democracy by Joan Didion1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr1984
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike1984
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally1983
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco1983
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez1983
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré1983
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch1983
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone1982
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme1982
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow1982
The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer1982
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler1982
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas1981
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen1981
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury1981
Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin1981
Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth1981
Dad by William Wharton1981
The Second Coming by Walker Percy1980
Darkness Visible by William Golding1980
Smiley's People by John le Carré1980
Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates1980
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole1980

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The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. (English, Member-written)
This year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored outstanding literary achievement in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Each winner receives a $1,000 cash award. (English, Member-written)

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