| Fiction titles submitted for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize (by title) You can also see this list sorted by publisher or author. |
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| Title | Author | Publisher |
| A Free Life | Jin, Ha | Pantheon Books |
| A Nail Through the Heart | Hallinan, Timothy | HarperCollins |
| A Thousand and One Nights | Tupper, Lara | Harcourt Trade Publishers |
| An Offering of Rice | Hara, Mavis | Bamboo Ridge Press |
| Anarchy and Old Dogs | Cotterill, Colin | Soho Press |
| Armando and the Blue Tarp School | Pine, Edith and Judith Josephson | Lee & Low |
| Bangkok Haunts | Burdett, John | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Bird of Another Heaven | Houston, James D. | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Caspian Rain | Nahai, Gina B. | MacAdam Cage Publishing |
| Cloud of Bone | Morgan, Bernice | Knopf Canada |
| Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show | Wiley, Richard | University of Texas Press |
| Cries in the Drizzle | Yu Hua | Anchor Books |
| Dream of the Dragon Pool: A Daoist Quest | Dalia, Albert | Pleasure Boat Studio |
| Farewell, Shanghai | Wagenstein, Angel | Other Press LLC |
| Fieldwork | Beslinski, Mischa | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| Flight | Alexie, Sherman | Grove Press/Black Cat |
| Garcia's Heart | Durcan, Liam | McClelland & Stewart |
| Gifted: A Novel | Lalwani, Nikita | Random House |
| God of Luck | McCunn, Ruthanne | Soho Press |
| Grotesque | Kirino, Natsuo | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Heaven's Net is Wide: The First Tale of the Otori | Hearn, Lian | Riverhead |
| I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China | Wen, Zhu | Columbia University Press |
| If Today Be Sweet | Umrigar, Thrity | HarperCollins |
| Island of Exiles | Parker, I.J. | Penguin |
| Jia: A Novel of North Korea | Kim, Hyajin | Midnight Editions |
| Karma and Other Stories | Reddi, Rishi | HarperCollins |
| Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes | Watada, Terry | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Little Sister Left Behind | Le, Samantha | Chusma House Publications |
| Lock 1928 | Ryan, Shawna Yang | El Leon Literary Arts/Thomas Farber |
| Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story | Howe, LeAnne | Aunt Lute Books |
| Mister Pip | Jones, Lloyd | Dial/Dell |
| Moloka'i Nui Ahina, Summers on the Lonely Isle | Wright, Kirby | Lemon Shark Press |
| Mosquito | Tearne, Roma | HarperCollins Canada |
| My Dadima Wears a Sari | Sheth, Kashmira | Peachtree |
| My South Seas Sleeping Beauty | Zhang, Guixing | Columbia University Press |
| Odori | Tamayose, Darcy | Cormorant Books |
| Peony in Love | See, Lisa | Random House |
| Prayer of the Dragon | Pattison, Eliot | Soho Press |
| Radiance | Lambert, Shaena | Random House Canada |
| Sacred Games | Chandra, Vikram | HarperCollins |
| Sayonara Bar | Barker, Susan | St Martin's Press |
| September's Fable: A Novel | Zhang, Wei | Homa and Sekey Books |
| Shortcomings | Tomine, Adrian | Drawn & Quarterly |
| The Assasin's Song | Vissanji, M.G. | Doubleday Canada |
| The Bad Girl | Llosa, Mario Vargas | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| The Bee Tree | Buchman, Stephen and Diana Cohn | Cinco Puntos |
| The Bloodstone Papers | Duncan, Glen | HarperCollins |
| The Broken Shore | Temple, Peter | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| The Complete Stories | Malouf, David | Pantheon Books |
| The Descendants | Hemmings, Kaui Hart | Random House USA |
| The Desert Lake | Leith, Linda | Signature Editions |
| The Devil's Whisper | Miyabe, Miyuki | Kodansha International |
| The Elephanta Suite | Theroux, Paul | McClelland & Stewart |
| The End of East | Sookfong Lee, Jen | Knopf Canada |
| The Gum Thief | Coupland, Douglas | Random House Canada |
| The Hindi Bindi Club | Pradham, Monica | Bantam/Dell |
| The Indian Clerk | Leavitt, David | Bloomsbury US |
| The Last Chinese Chef | Mones, Nicole | Houghton Mifflin |
| The Last Communist Virgin | Wang, Ping | Coffee House Press |
| The Last Empress | Min, Anchee | Houghton Mifflin |
| The Letter Opener | Maclear, Kyo | HarperCollins Canada |
| The New Bedford Samurai | Vlasopolos, Anca | Twilight Times Books |
| The Nightmare Tree | Rene, Richard | Coteau Books |
| The Ocean in the Closet | Tanigushi, Yuko | Coffee House Press |
| The Old Capital | Chu, T'ien-hsin | Columbia University Press |
| The Queens of K-Town | Hur, Angela Mi Young | MacAdam Cage Publishing |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Hamid, Mohsin | Harcourt Trade Publishers |
| The Sakhalin Collection | Smith, Robert W. | WigWam Publishing Co. |
| The Silent Raga | Merchant, Ameen | Douglas & McIntyre |
| The Solitude of Emperors | Davidar, David | McClelland & Stewart |
| The Unknown Terrorist | Flanagan, Richard | HarperCollins Canada |
| The Wandering Ghost | Limon, Martin | Soho Press |
| The War Journal of Lila Ann Smith | Warner, Irving | Pleasure Boat Studio |
| Their Dogs Came With Them | Viramontes, Helena Maria | Simon & Schuster/Atria |
| This is a Bust | Lin, Ed | Kaya Press |
| Toy City | Lee, Dong-ha | Koryo Press |
| Tree of Smoke | Johnson, Denis | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| We Are Not in Pakistan | Baldwin, Shauna Singh | Goose Lane Editions |
| When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep | Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia | Riverhead |
| White Rainbow, Black Curse | Eyre, David Kawika | Kamehameha Publishing |