L.A. Times Book Prize Winners First Fiction

Awards List

2019

The Old Drift (Winner)
Namwali Serpell

Mar-2019
/ Literary

Optic Nerve (Finalist)
Maria Gainza

Apr-2019
/ General Fiction

In West Mills (Finalist)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Jun-2019
/ Literary

Say Say Say (Finalist)
Lila Savage

Jul-2019
/ General Fiction

Marilou Is Everywhere (Finalist)
Sarah Elaine Smith

Aug-2019
/ General Fiction

2018

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

Apr-2018
/ General 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

2017

Sour Heart: Stories (Winner)
Jenny Zhang

Aug-2017
/ Literary

The Idiot (Finalist)
Elif Batuman

Mar-2017
/ Literary

Goodbye, Vitamin (Finalist)
Rachel Khong

Jul-2017
/ Literary

My Absolute Darling (Finalist)
Gabriel Tallent

Sep-2017
/ Action Adventure

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Finalist)
Carmen Maria Machado

Oct-2017
/ General Fiction

2015

Against the Country (Finalist)
Ben Metcalf

Jan-2015
/ Literary

Binary Star (Finalist)
Sarah Gerard

Jan-2015
/ Literary

The Fishermen (Finalist)
Chigozie Obioma

Apr-2015
/ General Fiction

The Miracle Girl (Finalist)
Andrew Roe

Apr-2015
/ General Fiction

Girl at War (Finalist)
Sara Novic

May-2015
/ Literary

2014

Faces in the Crowd (Winner)
Valeria Luiselli

May-2014
/ Literary

The Heaven of Animals: Stories (Finalist)
David James Poissant

Mar-2014
/ General Fiction

Faces in the Crowd (Finalist)
Valeria Luiselli

May-2014
/ Literary

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (Finalist)
Eimear McBride

Sep-2014
/ Literary

Wolf in White Van (Finalist)
John Darnielle

Sep-2014
/ Psychological Suspense

Man V. Nature: Stories (Finalist)
Diane Cook

Oct-2014
/ Literary

2013

We Need New Names (Winner)
Noviolet Bulawayo

May-2013
/ General Fiction

I Want To Show You More (Finalist)
Jamie Quatro

Mar-2013
/ General Fiction

The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories (Finalist)
Ethan Rutherford

May-2013
/ General Fiction

Mira Corpora (Finalist)
Jeff Jackson

Sep-2013
/ Action Adventure

The Night Guest (Finalist)
Fiona McFarlane

Oct-2013
/ Literary

2012

Seating Arrangements (Winner)
Maggie Shipstead

Jun-2012
/ General Fiction

Fobbit (Finalist)
David Abrams

Sep-2012
/ General Fiction

2011

Shards (Winner)
Ismet Prcic

Oct-2011
/ Literary

The Arriviste (Finalist)
James Wallenstein

Jun-2011
/ General Fiction

Ten Thousand Saints (Finalist)
Eleanor Henderson

Jun-2011
/ General Fiction

Leaving the Atocha Station (Finalist)
Ben Lerner

Sep-2011
/ Literary

2010

The More I Owe You (Finalist)
Michael Sledge

May-2010
/ Literary

Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry (Finalist)
Christine Sneed

Feb-2013
/ Literary

2009

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Finalist)
Daniyal Mueenuddin

Jan-2009
/ General Fiction

Tinkers (Finalist)
Paul Harding

Jan-2009
/ Literary

2008

Mosquito (Finalist)
Roma Tearne

Apr-2008
/ General Fiction

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Finalist)
David Wroblewski

May-2008
/ General Fiction

2007

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Winner)
Dinaw Mengestu

Mar-2007
/ General Fiction

Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money (Finalist)
Rebecca Curtis

Jul-2007
/ General Fiction

The Last Chicken in America (Finalist)
Ellen Litman

Sep-2007
/ General Fiction

2006

White Ghost Girls (Winner)
Alice Greenway

Feb-2006
/ Historical

Skinner's Drift (Finalist)
Lisa Fugard

Jan-2006
/ General Fiction

Golden Country (Finalist)
Jennifer Gilmore

Aug-2006
/ General Fiction

2005

Garner (Finalist)
Kirstin Allio

Sep-2005
/ General Fiction

2004

Harbor (Winner)
Lorraine Adams

Sep-2004
/ General Fiction

Rear View (Finalist)
Peter Duval

Aug-2004
/ General Fiction

2003

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Winner)
Mark Haddon

Jun-2003
/ General Fiction

2001

The Dark Room (Winner)
Rachel Seiffert

May-2001
/ General Fiction

The Death of Vishnu (Finalist)
Manil Suri

Jan-2001
/ Literary

1999

Amy and Isabelle (Winner)
Elizabeth Strout

Jul-1998
/ General Fiction

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Finalist)
Nathan Englander

Mar-1999
/ General Fiction

By the Shore (Finalist)
Galaxy Craze

Apr-2000
/ General Fiction

1997

Don't Erase Me (Winner)
Carolyn Ferrell

Jun-1997
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

Young Adult Literature

Award Years