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