Books

Dayton Literary Peace Prize (awards)

This award was given to 25 books.


  1. The Sojourn

    by Andrew Krivak

    Year: 2011
    Rank: Winner
  2. Beneath the Lion's Gaze

    by Maaza Mengiste

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  3. The Surrendered

    by Chang-rae Lee

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
  4. In the Place of Justice

    A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

    by Wilbert Rideau

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-Fiction
  5. The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    by Isabel Wilkerson

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Rank: 2
  6. The Book of Night Women

    by Marlon James

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  7. The Thing Around Your Neck

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  8. Zeitoun

    by Dave Eggers

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  9. In the Valley of Mist

    by Justine Hardy

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  10. Say You're One of Them

    by Uwem Akpan

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  11. Peace

    by Richard Bausch

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  12. Hot, Flat, and Crowded

    Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How it Can Renew America

    by Thomas L. Friedman

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  13. A Crime So Monstrous

    Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

    by E. Benjamin Skinner

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  14. Lost City Radio

    by Daniel Alarcón

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  15. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    by Junot Díaz

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  16. Brother, I'm Dying

    by Edwidge Danticat

    Year: 2008
    Category: Nonfiction
  17. Are We Rome?

    The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

    by Cullen Murphy

    Year: 2008
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  18. Skinner's Drift

    by Lisa Fugard

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  19. Birds in Fall

    by Brad Kessler

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  20. Three Cups of Tea

    One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time

    by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

    Year: 2007
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: 2
  21. Modern Library Chronicles: Book 26

    Nonviolence

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Mark Kurlansky

    Year: 2007
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  22. The Discontinuity of Small Things

    by Kevin Haworth

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Runner-Up
  23. A Changed Man

    by Francine Prose

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  24. Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild

    Year: 2006
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  25. Shockwave

    Countdown to Hiroshima

    by Stephen Walker

    Year: 2006
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner

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