First awarded in 1980 the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction has been a consistent feature of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes since its inception in the same year.

Past Winners

• 1980 - Walker Percy, The Second Coming
• 1981 - D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel
• 1982 - Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
• 1983 - Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List
• 1984 - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• 1985 - Louis Erdrich, Love Medicine
• 1986 - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
• 1987 - James Welch, Fools Crow
• 1988 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
• 1989 - Fay Weldon, The Heart of the Country
• 1990 - Edna O'Brien, Lantern Slides
• 1991 - Allan Gurganus, White People
• 1992 - Art Spiegelman, Maus II, A Survivor's Tale
• 1993 - Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven
• 1994 - David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
• 1995 - William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon
• 1996 - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• 1997 - James Carlos Blake, In the Rogue Blood
• 1998 - W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
• 1999 - Amit Chaudhuri, Freedom Song: Three Novels
• 2000 - David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories
• 2001 - Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever
• 2002 - Ian McEwan, Atonement: A Novel
• 2003 - Pete Dexter, Train: A Novel
• 2004 - Colm Tóibín, The Master: A Novel
• 2005 - Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
• 2006 - A. B. Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem