2018 L.A. Times Book Prize Winners

Awards List

Fiction

The Great Believers (Winner)
Rebecca Makkai

Jun-2018
/ Literary

First Fiction

Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Winner)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Apr-2018
/ General Fiction

Graphic Novel

On a Sunbeam (Winner)
Tillie Walden

Oct-2018
/ General Fiction

Mystery/Thriller

My Sister, the Serial Killer (Winner)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Nov-2018
/ Women's Fiction

Young Adult Literature

The Poet X (Winner)
Elizabeth Acevedo

Mar-2018
/ General Fiction

Fiction

An American Marriage (Finalist)
Tayari Jones

Feb-2018
/ Literary

Warlight (Finalist)
Michael Ondaatje

May-2018
/ Literary

Washington Black (Finalist)
Esi Edugyan

Sep-2018
/ Action Adventure

The Wildlands (Finalist)
Abby Geni

Sep-2018
/ General Fiction

First Fiction

Asymmetry (Finalist)
Lisa Halliday

Feb-2018
/ Literary

There There (Finalist)
Tommy Orange

Jun-2018
/ Literary

The Incendiaries (Finalist)
R.O. Kwon

Aug-2018
/ General Fiction

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (Finalist)
Katya Apekina

Sep-2018
/ Literary

Graphic Novel

Why Art? (Finalist)
Eleanor Davis

Mar-2018
/ General Fiction

Mystery/Thriller

The Perfect Nanny (Finalist)
Leila Slimani

Jan-2018
/ Thriller

Green Sun (Finalist)
Kent Anderson

Mar-2018
/ Police Procedural

Give Me Your Hand (Finalist)
Megan Abbott

Jul-2018
/ Thriller

November Road (Finalist)
Lou Berney

Oct-2018
/ Thriller

Young Adult Literature

The Astonishing Color of After (Finalist)
Emily X.R. Pan

Mar-2018
/ Fantasy

Picture Us in the Light (Finalist)
Kelly Loy Gilbert

Apr-2018
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

Young Adult Literature

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

2018 L.A. Times Book Prize

Awards List

Award Categories

Award Years