Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, inaugurated in 2006, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to pr ...more

Winners

	How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.73 avg rating — 27,515 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 4.52 avg rating — 27,110 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Germans by Alexander Starritt 4.05 avg rating — 1,129 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 6,204 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Know My Name by Chanel Miller 4.72 avg rating — 167,784 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 30,984 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 9,354 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 3.99 avg rating — 2,697 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 3.92 avg rating — 11,537 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.39 avg rating — 28,812 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood 4.39 avg rating — 340 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 1,871 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard 4.28 avg rating — 1,744 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 104,117 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson 4.63 avg rating — 214,913 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil (Goodreads Author) 3.46 avg rating — 492 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune 4.18 avg rating — 291 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis 3.53 avg rating — 1,933 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon 4.25 avg rating — 20,622 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson 4.06 avg rating — 98,061 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild 4.14 avg rating — 8,538 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak 3.82 avg rating — 2,820 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee 3.67 avg rating — 4,697 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau 4.07 avg rating — 546 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace: Four-volume set by Nigel Young it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Scholarship Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postcards from the Grave by Emir Suljagić 4.20 avg rating — 191 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Ambassador Frowick Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Night Women by Marlon James 4.38 avg rating — 12,903 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zeitoun by Dave Eggers 4.05 avg rating — 77,231 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner 3.98 avg rating — 1,107 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peace by Richard Bausch (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 1,010 ratings Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars