The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Non-Fiction

2008

The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific Winner

Julia Whitty

The Father of All Things

Tom Bissell

East Wind Melts the Ice

Liza Dalby

India After Gandhi

Ramachandra Guha

The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

Susan Mann

2007

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations Winner

Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

The Haiku Apprentice

Abigail Friedman

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir

Ernestine Hayes

Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers

Ruth Padel

Chinese Lessons: An American, His Classmates, and the Story of the New China

John Pomfret

2006

The Reindeer People Winner

Piers Vitebsky

Isami's House

Gail Lee Bernstein

Crossing Three Wildernesses

U Sam Oeur

A Man With No Talents

Oyama Shiro (translated by Edward Fowler)

The Golden Spruce

John Vaillant

2005

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Suketu Mehta Winner
• The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change Charles Wohlforth
• Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare Philip Short
• The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders Masayo Duus (translated by Peter Duus)

2003/2004

• Dancing with Strangers Inga Clendinnen Winner
• White Mughals: Love and betrayal in Eighteenth Century India William Dalrymple
• Out of God's Oven: Travels in a fractured land Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivatsa
• Secrets and spies: The Harbin Files Mara Moustafine
• Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms: The Militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

2002

• From the land of green ghosts: A Burmese odyssey Pascal Khoo Thwe Winner
• Singing to the dead: A Missioner's life among refugees from Burma Victoria Armour-Hileman
• Korean Endgame: A Strategy for reunification and US disengagement Selig S. Harrison
• Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his world, 1852-1912 Donald Keene
• The Good women of China: Hidden voices Xinran, translated by Esther Tyldesley

2001

• River Town Peter Hessler Winner
• Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi Katherine Frank
• Red dust: A Path through China Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
• Inside Passage: A Journey beyond borders Richard Manning
• Perpetual happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle Shih-Shan Henry Tsai

2000

• Things that must not be forgotten: A Childhood in wartime China David Michael Kwan Winner
• Hirohito and the making of modern Japan Herbert Bix
• When broken glass floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge Chanrithy Him
• Ladder to the clouds: Intrigue and tradition in Chinese rank Beverley Jackson and David Hugus
• Asian American dreams: The Emergence of an American people Helen Zia

1999

• Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled journey through the landscape and memory of Vietnam Andrew X. Pham Winner
• The Mummies of Urumchi Elizabeth W. Barber
• Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II John Dower
• Riska: Memories of a Dayak girlhood Riska Orpa Sari, edited by Linda Spalding