2018 L.A. Times Book Prize

Awards List

Fiction

The Great Believers
(Winner)
Rebecca Makkai

An American Marriage
(Finalist)
Tayari Jones

Warlight
(Finalist)
Michael Ondaatje

Washington Black
(Finalist)
Esi Edugyan

The Wildlands
(Finalist)
Abby Geni

First Fiction

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

Asymmetry
(Finalist)
Lisa Halliday

There There
(Finalist)
Tommy Orange

The Incendiaries
(Finalist)
R.O. Kwon

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

Graphic Novel

On a Sunbeam
(Winner)
Tillie Walden

Why Art?
(Finalist)
Eleanor Davis

Mystery/Thriller

My Sister, the Serial Killer
(Winner)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Perfect Nanny
(Finalist)
Leila Slimani

Green Sun
(Finalist)
Kent Anderson

Give Me Your Hand
(Finalist)
Megan Abbott

November Road
(Finalist)
Lou Berney

Young Adult Literature

The Poet X
(Winner)
Elizabeth Acevedo

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

Picture Us in the Light
(Finalist)
Kelly Loy Gilbert

Award Categories

Fiction

First Fiction

Graphic Novel

Mystery/Thriller

Poetry

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

Young Adult Literature

Award Years

2019

2018

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