The Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced finalists in fiction and nonfiction. The winners will be announced in September.
Fiction
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris (Knopf)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
Freedom Is a Feast by Alejandro Puyana (Little, Brown and Co.)
The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)
The Good Deed by Helen Benedict (Red Hen Press)
Nonfiction
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith (W.W. Norton & Co.)
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg (Simon & Schuster)
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea by Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor (Pantheon)
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton)
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham (Riverhead)
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora by Wendy Pearlman (Liveright)
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