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Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

Los Angeles Times

An annual award presented by the Los Angeles Times honoring an outstanding work of fiction published in the previous year, part of the broader Los Angeles Times Book Prizes covering multiple categories.

Latest winner · 2025

Next · expected February 2027

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2025

  1. Palaver

    Bryan Washington

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Gloria: A Novel

    Andrés Felipe Solano (trans. by Will Vanderhyden)

    Shortlisted
  3. Only Way Out

    Tod Goldberg

    Shortlisted
  4. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Won 5 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. These Heathens: A Novel

    Mia McKenzie

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel

    Jennine Capó Crucet

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. All Fours

    Miranda July

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Headshot

    Rita Bullwinkel

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. James

    Percival Everett

    Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 5 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. Season of the Swamp

    Yuri Herrera

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Same Bed Different Dreams

    Ed Park

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Blackouts

    Justin Torres

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Loved and Missed

    Susie Boyt

    Shortlisted
  4. The Dog of the North

    Elizabeth McKenzie

    Shortlisted
  5. Wednesday's Child

    Yiyun Li

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. Solenoid

    Mircea Cărtărescu

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Didn't Nobody Give a S— What Happened to Carlotta

    James Hannaham

    Shortlisted
  3. Exalted

    Anna Dorn

    Shortlisted
  4. Paradais

    Fernanda Melchor

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

    Jamil Jan Kochai

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. In the Company of Men

    Véronique Tadjo

    Won
  2. American Estrangement

    Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

    Shortlisted
  3. Harrow

    Joy Williams

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

    Claire Vaye Watkins

    Shortlisted
  5. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

    Mariana Enríquez

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. At Night All Blood Is Black

    David Diop

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Likes

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    Shortlisted
  3. The Death of Vivek Oji

    Akwaeke Emezi

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Office of Historical Corrections

    Danielle Evans

    Shortlisted
  5. What Happens at Night

    Peter Cameron

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. The Topeka School

    Ben Lerner

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. Stay and Fight

    Madeline Ffitch

    Shortlisted
  3. The Nickel Boys

    Colson Whitehead

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Shadow King

    Maaza Mengiste

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. We, the Survivors

    Tash Aw

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. The Great Believers

    Rebecca Makkai

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. An American Marriage

    Tayari Jones

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. The Wildlands

    Abby Geni

    Shortlisted
  4. Warlight

    Michael Ondaatje

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. Washington Black

    Esi Edugyan

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. Exit West

    Mohsin Hamid

    Nominated for 6 more awards

    Won
  2. Ghachar Ghochar

    Vivek Shanbhag with Srinath Perur (trans.)

    Shortlisted
  3. Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 5 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Burning Girl

    Claire Messud

    Shortlisted
  5. The Changeling

    Victor LaValle

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Imagine Me Gone

    Adam Haslett

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. Innocents and Others

    Dana Spiotta

    Shortlisted
  3. Sweet Lamb of Heaven

    Lydia Millet

    Shortlisted
  4. Swing Time

    Zadie Smith

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. What Belongs to You

    Garth Greenwell

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. The Story of My Teeth

    Valeria Luiselli

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. Beautiful Bureaucrat

    Helen Phillips

    Shortlisted
  3. Delicious Foods

    James Hannaham

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Fortune Smiles

    Adam Johnson

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Green Road

    Anne Enright

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. The Blazing World

    Siri Hustvedt

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Boy, Snow, Bird

    Helen Oyeyemi

    Shortlisted
  3. Dept. of Speculation

    Jenny Offill

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Silence Once Begun

    Jesse Ball

    Shortlisted
  5. The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories

    Donald Antrim

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. A Tale for the Time Being

    Ruth Ozeki

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

    Percival Everett

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Spectacle: Stories

    Susan Steinberg

    Shortlisted
  4. The Maid’s Version

    Daniel Woodrell

    Shortlisted
  5. The Woman Upstairs

    Claire Messud

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

    Ben Fountain

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Arcadia

    Lauren Groff

    Shortlisted
  3. Magnificence

    Lydia Millet

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Telegraph Avenue

    Michael Chabon

    Shortlisted
  5. The Middlesteins

    Jami Attenberg

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. Luminarium

    Alex Shakar

    Won
  2. Binocular Vision

    Edith Pearlman

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Ghost Light

    Joseph O'Connor

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Buddha in the Attic

    Julie Otsuka

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Cat's Table

    Michael Ondaatje

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Day for Night

    Frederick Reiken

    Shortlisted
  3. Freedom

    Jonathan Franzen

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Nashville Chrome

    Rick Bass

    Shortlisted
  5. Something Is Out There: Stories

    Richard Bausch

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. A Happy Marriage

    Rafael Yglesias

    Won
  2. A Short History of Women

    Kate Walbert

    Shortlisted
  3. Blame

    Michelle Huneven

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Heroic Measures

    Jill Ciment

    Shortlisted
  5. The Man in the Wooden Hat

    Jane Gardam

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. Home

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. Lush Life

    Richard Price

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. The God of War

    Marisa Silver

    Shortlisted
  4. The Secret Scripture

    Sebastian Barry

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Size of the World

    Joan Silber

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

    Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman (trans.)

    Won
  2. A Long Way Down

    Nick Hornby

    Shortlisted
  3. Kafka on the Shore

    Haruki Murakami

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The March

    E.L. Doctorow

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. Veronica

    Mary Gaitskill

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. The Master

    Colm Tóibín

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Gilead

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. GraceLand

    Chris Abani

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Honored Guest: Stories

    Joy Williams

    Shortlisted
  5. The Darling

    Russell Banks

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. Train

    Pete Dexter

    Won
  2. Jamesland

    Michelle Huneven

    Shortlisted
  3. Old School

    Tobias Wolff

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Ten Little Indians

    Sherman Alexie

    Shortlisted
  5. The Namesake

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Moral Hazard

    Kate Jennings

    Shortlisted
  3. Nowhere Man

    Aleksandar Hemon

    Shortlisted
  4. The City of Your Final Destination

    Peter Cameron

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Tourmaline

    Joanna Scott

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. Why Did I Ever

    Mary Robison

    Won
  2. By the Sea

    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

    Alice Munro

    Shortlisted
  4. John Henry Days

    Colson Whitehead

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. Assorted Fire Events

    David Means

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Equal Love

    Peter Ho Davies

    Shortlisted
  3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

    Michael Chabon

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Human Stain

    Philip Roth

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Quick and the Dead

    Joy Williams

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. Freedom Song: Three Novels

    Amit Chaudhuri

    Won
  2. Close Range: Wyoming Stories

    Annie Proulx

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. House of Sand and Fog

    Andre Dubus III

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Plainsong

    Kent Haruf

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Waiting

    Ha Jin

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. The Rings of Saturn

    W. G. Sebald with Michael Hulse (trans.)

    Won
  2. Death in Summer

    William Trevor

    Shortlisted
  3. Evening

    Susan Minot

    Shortlisted
  4. Freedomland

    Richard Price

    Shortlisted
  5. I Married a Communist

    Philip Roth

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. In the Rogue Blood

    James Carlos Blake

    Won
  2. California's Over

    Louis B. Jones

    Shortlisted
  3. Reading in the Dark

    Seamus Deane

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Ordinary Seaman

    Francisco Goldman

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Reader

    Bernhard Schlink

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. A Fine Balance

    Rohinton Mistry

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. About Schmidt

    Louis Begley

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Every Man for Himself

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Open Heart

    A.B. Yehoshua

    Shortlisted
  5. Santa Evita

    Tomás Eloy Martínez

    Shortlisted
  6. Ship Fever and Other Stories

    Andrea Barrett

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. The Ghost Road

    Pat Barker

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. Tree of Heaven

    R.C. Binstock

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. The Blue Afternoon

    William Boyd

    Won
  2. Albion's Story

    Kate Grenville

    Shortlisted
  3. Felicia's Journey

    William Trevor

    Shortlisted
  4. Open Secrets: Stories

    Alice Munro

    Shortlisted
  5. Trinity Fields

    Bradford Morrow

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. Remembering Babylon

    David Malouf

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Holder of the World

    Bharati Mukherjee

    Shortlisted

  3. The Rifles: Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequence

    William T. Vollmann

    Shortlisted
  4. The Soloist

    Mark Salzman

    Shortlisted
  5. While England Sleeps

    David Leavitt

    Shortlisted

1991

  1. White People

    Allan Gurganus

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Woman’s Story

    Annie Ernaux

    Shortlisted
  3. Age of Iron

    J. M. Coetzee

    Shortlisted
  4. The Acacia

    Claude Simon

    Shortlisted
  5. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

    Sandra Cisneros

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1990

  1. Lantern Slides

    Edna O'Brien

    Won

  2. Baotown

    Anyi Wang and Martha Avery

    Shortlisted
  3. Friend of My Youth

    Alice Munro

    Shortlisted
  4. Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas

    Jane Smiley

    Shortlisted
  5. Reaching Tin River

    Thea Astley

    Shortlisted

1989

  1. The Heart of the Country

    Fay Weldon

    Won

  2. Midnight Sweets

    Bette Pesetsky

    Shortlisted

  3. Mother's Girl

    Elaine Feinstein

    Shortlisted
  4. The City of Marvels

    Eduardo Mendoza and Bernard Molloy

    Shortlisted
  5. The Joy Luck Club

    Amy Tan

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

1988

  1. Love in the Time of Cholera

    Gabriel García Marquez

    Won
  2. Libra

    Don DeLillo

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Moon Tiger

    Penelope Lively

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Showdown

    Jorge Amado

    Shortlisted
  5. The Fifth Child

    Doris May Lessing

    Shortlisted

1987

  1. Fools Crow

    James Welch

    Won
  2. A Summons to Memphis

    Peter Taylor

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Of Love and Shadows

    Isabel Allende

    Shortlisted
  4. That Night

    Alice McDermott

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. You Must Remember This

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted

1986

  1. The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 4 more awards

    Won
  2. A Perfect Spy

    John le Carré

    Shortlisted
  3. Lake Wobegon Days

    Garrison Keillor

    Shortlisted
  4. The Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Golden Gate

    Vikram Seth

    Shortlisted
  6. The Old Gringo

    Carlos Fuentes

    Shortlisted

1985

  1. Love Medicine

    Louise Erdrich

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. Annie John

    Jamaica Kincaid

    Shortlisted
  3. Empire of the Sun

    J. G. Ballard

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Hotel du Lac

    Anita Brookner

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Slow Dancing

    Elizabeth Benedict

    Shortlisted

1984

  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    Won
  2. Democracy

    Joan Didion

    Shortlisted
  3. Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

    Saul Bellow

    Shortlisted
  4. Stones for Ibarra

    Harriet Doerr

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Witches of Eastwick

    John Updike

    Shortlisted

1983

  1. Schindler's Ark

    Thomas Keneally

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Gabriel García Márquez

    Shortlisted
  3. The Little Drummer Girl

    John Le Carré

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Philosopher's Pupil

    Iris Murdoch

    Shortlisted

1982

  1. A Flag for Sunrise

    Robert Stone

    Nominated for 5 more awards

    Won
  2. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

    Anne Tyler

    Nominated for 4 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Sixty Stories

    Donald Barthelme

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Collected Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Shortlisted
  5. The Dean's December

    Saul Bellow

    Shortlisted

1981

  1. The White Hotel

    D. M. Thomas

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Dad

    William Wharton

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Ellis Island and Other Stories

    Mark Helprin

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

    Elizabeth Bowen

    Shortlisted
  5. The Stories of Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury

    Shortlisted
  6. Zuckerman Unbound

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted

1980

  1. The Second Coming

    Walker Percy

    Nominated for 4 more awards

    Won
  2. A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Bellefleur

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  4. Darkness Visible

    William Golding

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Smiley's People

    John le Carré

    Shortlisted

Frequently asked questions

Who won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 2025?
“Palaver” by Bryan Washington won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 2025.
Who are the most recent Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners?
2025: “Palaver” by Bryan Washington; 2024: “Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel” by Jennine Capó Crucet; 2023: “Same Bed Different Dreams” by Ed Park; 2022: “Solenoid” by Mircea Cărtărescu; 2021: “In the Company of Men” by Véronique Tadjo.