Books Nominated for the
2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Fiction

1. A Thread of Sky	Deanna Fei (The Penguin Press)
2. Almost Dead	Assaf Gavron (HarperCollins)
3. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze	Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton & Co.)
4. Deep Creek	Dana Hand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
5. How to Escape from a Leper Colony	Tiphanie Yanique (Graywolf Press)
6. How to Read the Air	Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead Books)
7. I Hotel	Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffee House Press)
8. Kapitoil	Teddy Wayne (Harper Collins)
9. My Sister’s Made of Light	Jacqueline St. Joan (Press 53)
10. One Amazing Thing	Chitra Divakaruni (Hyperion)
11. Russian Winter	Daphne Kalotay (HarperCollins)
12. Salvation City	Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books)
13. Sikander	M. Salahuddin Khan (Karakoram Press)
14. Small Kingdoms	Anastasia Hobbet (The Permanent Press)
15. Solar	Ian McEwan (Doubleday Publishing)
16. Something Red	Jennifer Gilmore (Simon & Schuster)
17. The Colony	Lillian Weise (Soft Skull Press)
18. The Gendarme	Mark Mustain (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
19. The Invisible Bridge	Julia Orringer (Knopf Doubleday)
20. The Long Song	Andrea Levy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
21. The Lotus Eaters	Tatjana Soli (St. Martin’s Press)
22. The Other Crucifix	Benjamin Kwakye (Ayebia Clarke Publishing)
23. The Patience Stone	Atiq Rhimi (Other Press)
24. The Surrendered	Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books)
25. To the End of the Land	David Grossman (Knopf)
26. Vida	Patricia Engel (Grove Atlantic)
27. Warriors in the Crossfire	Nancy Bo Flood (Northern Arizona University)

Nonfiction

1. A Sixties Story	Toni Apicelli (Dog Ear Publishing)
2. Born for Love	Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz (HarperCollins)
3. Children of Fire	Thomas C. Holt (Hill and Wang)
4. Conversations with Myself	Nelson Mandela (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
5. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate	Kai Bird (Scribner)
6. Emperor of All Maladies	Siddhartha Mukherjee (Simon and Schuster)
7. False Justice	Jim Petro and Nancy Petro (Kaplan Publishing)
8. For Us Surrender is Out of the Question	Mac McClelland (Soft Skull Press)
9. Gandhi’s Interpreter	Geoffrey Carnall (Edinburgh University Press)
10. Germs Gone Wild	Kenneth King (Pegasus Books)
11. Hiroshima In the Morning	Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (The Feminist Press)
12. How Wars End	Gideon Rose (Simon and Schuster)
13. I Shall Not Hate	Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish (Bloomsbury, USA)
14. In the Place of Justice	Wilbert Rideau (Knopf)
15. Let the Swords Encircle Me	Scott Peterson (Simon and Schuster)
16. Little Princes	Conor Grennan (HarperCollins)
17. Magic and Mayhem	Derek Leebaert (Simon and Schuster)
18. Mohamed’s Ghosts	Stephan Salisbury (Basic/Nation Books)
19. Nomad	Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press)
20. Oxford International Encyclopedia of       Peace	Nigel Young. ED (Oxford University Press)
21. Peace Meals	Anna Badkhen (Free Press)
22. Rock and Roll Jihad	Salman Ahmad (Free Press)
23. Simon Wiesenthal	Tom Segev (Doubleday)
24. Talking to the Enemy	Scott Atran (HarperCollins)
25. The Bomb	Howard Zinn (City Lights)
26. The Bread of Angels	Stephanie Saldana (Doubleday)
27. The Devil and Mr. Casement	Jordan Goodman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
28. The Eastern Stars	Mark Kurlansky (Riverhead)
29. The End of War	Captain Paul K. Chappell (Easton Studio Press)
30. The Ghosts of Martyrs Square	Michael Young (Simon and Schuster)
31. The Guilt Project	Vanessa Place (Other Press)
32. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot (Crown Publishing)
33. The Tenth Parallel	Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
34. The Warmth of Other Suns	Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
35. The Witness House	Christiane Kohl (Other Press)
36. This Will Be Remembered of Her	Megan McKenna (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing)
37. Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
38. Undaunted	Zoya Phan (Free Press)
39. Walking Israel	Martin Fletcher (St. Martins Press/Thomas Dunne Books)
40. You Have Given Me a Country	Neela Vaswami (Sarabande Books)