Los Angeles Times Book Prize: fiction

The Los Angeles Times has honored books annually since 1980. Currently, it does so in many categories that include, among others, biography, current interest, fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Works are eligible regardless of the language in which they were originally published, but not until the year of their first U.S. publication in English.  The prizes are normally presented before the start of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, another annual event sponsored by the newspaper.

2023: Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel, by Ed Park

2022: Solenoid, by Mircea Cartarescu

2021: In the Company of Men, by Véronique Tadjo

2020: At Night All Blood Is Black, by David Diop (Anna Moschovakis, translator)

2019: The Topeka School: A Novel, by Ben Lerner

2018: The Great Believers: A Novel, by Rebecca Makkai

2017: Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid

2016: Imagine Me Gone, by Adam Haslett

2015: The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli

2014: The Blazing World, by Siri Hustvedt

2013: A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki

2012: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain

2011: Luminarium, by Alex Shakar

2010: A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

2009: A Happy Marriage, by Rafael Yglesias

2008: Home, by Marilynne Robinson

2007: Be Near Me, by Andrew O’Hagan

2006: A Woman in Jerusalem, by A. B. Yehoshua

2005: Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel García Márquez

2004: The Master, by Colm Tóibín

2003: Train: A Novel, by Pete Dexter

2002: Atonement: A Novel, by Ian McEwan

2001: Why Did I Ever, by Mary Robison

2000: Assorted Fire Events: Stories, by David Means

1999: Freedom Song: Three Novels, by Amit Chaudhuri

1998: The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Seabed

1997: In the Rogue Blood, by James Carlos Blake

1996: A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry

1995: The Blue Afternoon, by William Boyd

1994: Remembering Babylon, by David Malouf

1993: Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver

1992: Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman

1991: White People, by Allan Gurganus

1990: Lantern Slides, by Edna O’Brien

1989: The Heart of the Country, by Fay Weldon

1988: Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Marquez

1987: Fools Crow, by James Welch

1986: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

1985: Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich

1984: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

1983: Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally

1982: A Flag for Sunrise, by Robert Stone

1981: The White Hotel, by D.M. Thomas

1980: The Second Coming, by Walker Percy