| Nonfiction titles submitted for the 2007 Kiriyama Prize (by author) You can also see this list sorted by title or publisher. |
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| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Indonesia | Adams, Kathleen M. | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women | Ahmed, Amineh | Cambridge University Press |
| Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan | Ambaras, David | University of California Press |
| The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia | Andaya, Barbara Watson | University of Hawai'i Press |
| India Before Europe | Asher, Catherine and Cynthia Talbot | Cambridge University Press |
| Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan | Barbutt, Nick and J. Dede Prudente | MIT Press |
| Lhasa: Streets with Memories | Barnett, Robert | Columbia University Press |
| Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today | Becker, Jasper | National Geographic Society Books |
| China on Screen: Cinema and Nation | Berry, Chris and Mary Farquhar | Columbia University Press |
| Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita, the Artist Caught Between East and West | Birnbaum, Phyllis | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire | Bose, Sugata | Harvard University Press |
| Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond | Brynner, Rock | Steerforth Press |
| Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates Plan to Win the War Ahead | Buderi, Robert and Gregory T. Huang | Simon & Schuster |
| Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay, the Boy Whose Dream Was Everest | Burleigh, Robert | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Iz: Voice of the People | Carroll, Rick | The Bess Press |
| The Birdman | Charles, Veronika Martenova | Tundra Books |
| Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants | Chen, Guidi and Wu Chuntao | Public Affairs |
| Heart Matters | Clarkson, Adreienne | Penguin Canada |
| Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico | Cohan, Tony | Broadway Books |
| Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network | Corera, Gordon | Oxford University Press |
| A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, The Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions | Creekmore, Marion | Public Affairs |
| Wildfire in the Wilderness | Czajkowski, Chris | Harbour Publishing |
| Elements of Japanese Design | De Mente, Boye Lafayette | Tuttle |
| When I Was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo | Delano, Poli | Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press |
| Fried Eggs With Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own | Evans, Polly | Bantam/Dell |
| Waikiki: A History of Forgetting and Remembering | Feeser, Andrea and Gaye Chan | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 | Feifer, George | HarperCollins (US) |
| Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala | Fischer, Edward F. and Peter Benson | Stanford University Press |
| The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth | Flannery, Tim | HarperCollins Canada |
| Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route | Fontenoy, Maud | Arcade |
| The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan | Friedman, Abigail | Stone Bridge |
| China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development | Gallagher, Kelly Sims | MIT Press |
| Distant Rain | Gallagher, Tess and Jakucho Setouchi | Eastern Washington University Press |
| Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life | Garrison, Philip | University of Arizona Press |
| Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil in our Times | Ghosh, Amitav | Houghton Mifflin |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Gilbert, Elizabeth | Viking |
| Waiting for the Macaws | Glavin, Terry | Penguin Canada |
| The Green Tiger: The Costs of Ecological Decline in the Philippines | Goldoftas, Barbara | Oxford University Press |
| Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim | Gray, Timothy | University of Iowa |
| China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic | Greenfield, Karl Taro | HarperCollins (US) |
| A Grand Tour of Asia | Hallmadge, Hania with Beverly Jackson | Ten Speed Press |
| The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej | Handley, Paul M. | Yale University Press |
| The Happy Brush: The Joy of Chinese Painting | Hang, Chau | University of Indianapolis Press |
| Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir | Hayes, Ernestine | University of Arizona Press |
| Did Dogen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It | Heine, Steven | Oxford University Press |
| Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present | Hessler, Peter | HarperCollins (US) |
| Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots | Hornyak, Timothy N. | Kodansha America |
| Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India | Jaffrey, Madhur | Knopf (US) |
| Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation | Jung, Moon-Ho | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 | Keene, Donald | Columbia University Press |
| Mr Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas | Kendall, Gillian | University of Wisconsin Press |
| A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia | Keneally, Thomas | Nan A. Talese |
| The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations | Kennedy, Paul | HarperCollins Canada |
| I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos | Khamkeo, Bounsang | Eastern Washington University Press |
| The Complete Taj Mahal | Koch, Ebba | Thames & Hudson |
| After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai | Kwon, Heonik | University of California Press |
| China Shakes the World | Kynge, James | Houghton Mifflin |
| The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama | Laird, Thomas | Grove Atlantic |
| Empire | Laxer, James | Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press |
| Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan | Leheny, David | Cornell University Press |
| Sirens of the Western Shore: Westernesque Women and Translation in Modern Japanese Literature | Levy, Indra | Columbia University Press |
| Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady | Li, Laura Tyson | Grove Atlantic |
| Symbolism of Chinese Children's Bibs | Lin, Christi Lan | Les Enphants/University of Indianapolis Press |
| The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000 | Lovell, Julia | Grove Atlantic |
| Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conversation in an Indonesian Archipelago | Lowe, Celia | Princeton University Press |
| Nixon in China | MacMillan, Margaret | Penguin Canada |
| Living Islam | Marsden, Magnus | Cambridge University Press |
| The Honey Jar | Menchu, Rogoberta | Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press |
| Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond | Mishra, Pankaj | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| Rainbow Over Hell | Mohri, Tsuneyuki | Pacific Press Publishing |
| Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations | Mortenson, G. and D.O. Relin | Viking |
| Demystifying Kashmir | Navnita, Chadha Behera | Brookings Inst Press |
| Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother | Nozario, Sonia | Random House (US) |
| The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity And the Colonial Pacific | O'Brien, Patty | University of Washington Press |
| The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall | Osborne, Lawrence | North Point/Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers | Padel, Ruth | Walker & Co. |
| Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan | Panek, Mark | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting | Pearson, T.R. | Crown Publishing Group |
| The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America | Poblete, Pati Navalta | Heyday |
| Chinese Lessons: An American, His Classmates, and the Story of the New China | Pomfret, John | Henry Holt |
| Brothers and Sisters in India: A Study of Urban Adult Siblings | Ramu, G.N. | University of Toronto Press |
| Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian's Quest for Justice | Reyes, Lawney | University of Arizona Press |
| Japanese Celebrations | Reynolds, Betty | Tuttle |
| The Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir | Robert Hughes | Knopf (US) |
| Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend | Ross, Christopher | Da Capo Press |
| Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War | Sallah, Michael and Mitch Weiss | Little, Brown & Co. |
| Integrative Antiracism: South Asians in Canadian Academe | Samuel, Edith | University of Toronto Press |
| America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy | Shibusawa, Naoko | Harvard University Press |
| Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy | Shin, Gi-Wook | Stanford University Press |
| Turmoil in Burma: Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar | Steinberg, David I. | EastBridge |
| All is Change: The Two-Thousand-year Journey of Buddhism to the West | Sutin, Lawrence | Little, Brown & Co. |
| David Suzuki: The Autobiography | Suzuki, David | Greystone Books |
| Getting Wet: Adventures in the Japanese Bath | Talmadge, Eric | Kodansha America |
| Ginseng, the Divine Root | Taylor, David A. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
| River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny | Taylor, Jeffrey | Houghton Mifflin |
| A Chameleon's Tale | Tejani, Mo | Paiboon Publishing |
| The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma | Thant, Myint-U | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 | Thomas, Evan | Simon & Schuster |
| Getting Stoned With Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu | Troost, J. Maarten | Broadway Books |
| Understanding Belize | Twigg, Alan | Harbour Publishing |
| Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island | Walters, Mark Jerome | Island Press |
| Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation | Wan, Ming | Stanford University Press |
| A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters | Welland, Sasha Su-Ling | Rowman & Littlefield |
| China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005 | White, Tyrene | Cornell University Press |
| Good Fortune: My Journey to Gold Mountain | Wong, Li Keng | Peachtree |
| Leaving Microsoft to Save the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children | Wood, John | HarperCollins (US) |
| Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in China | Wu, Emily and Larry Englemann | Pantheon Books |
| New China Architecture | Xing, Ruan | Tuttle |
| Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850–1910 | Yeh, Catherine | University of Washington Press |
| Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom | Zeng, Jennifer | Soho Press |
| Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation | Zielenziger, Michael | Nan Talese/Doubleday |