• Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
• My Life as a Fake, by Peter Carey
• The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
• The Guru of Love, by Samrat Upadhyay

• White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India, by William Dalrymple
• Out of God's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Land, by Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivatsa
• Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files, by Mara Moustafine
• Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History, by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

• Red Poppies, by Alai
• Melal: A Novel of the Pacific, by Robert Barclay
• The Girl From the Coast, by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Dirt Music, by Tim Winton

• Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees From Burma, by Victoria Armour-Hileman
• Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement, by Selig S. Harrison
• Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, by Donald Keene
• The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, by Xinran, Translated by Esther Tyldesley

Fiction
Winner:  Dogside Story, by Patricia Grace
Finalists:

• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
• Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska, translated by Deanna Heikkinen
• American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley
• The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

• Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
• Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
• Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders by Richard Manning 
• Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai

Fiction
Winner: Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
Finalists:

• The Toughest Indian in the World,  by Sherman Alexie
• The Hero's Walk,  by Anita Rau Badami
• The Years with Laura Díaz,  by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alfred MacAdam
• The Australian Fiancé,  by Simone Lazaroo

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert Bix
• When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge, by Chanrithy Him
• Ladder to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition in Chinese Rank, by Beverley Jackson and David Hugus
• Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, by Helen Zia

Fiction
Winner: Three-Legged Horse, by Cheng Ch'ing-wen, various translators
Finalists:

• The Book of Perceptions, by Truong Tran, photographs by Chung Hoang Chuong
• The Spring Tone, by Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano

• The Mummies of Ürümchi, by Elizabeth W. Barber
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John Dower
• Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood, by Riska Orpa Sari with Linda Spalding (editor)

Winner:  My Year of Meats, by Ruth L. Ozeki
Finalists:

• Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire, by Tui DeRoy 
• Under the Red Flag, by Ha Jin 
• Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land, by Henry Kamm 
• The Electrical Field, by Kerri Sakamoto
• Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia, James L. Watson, editor

Winner:  Japan: A Reinterpretation, by Patrick Smith
Finalists:

• Monkey Bridge, by Lan Cao 
• Korea's Place in the Sun, by Bruce Cumings
• The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, Donald Denoon et al., editor
• Chinese Opera: Images and Stories, by Siu Wang-Ngai and Peter Lovrick
• The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time, by Simon Winchester

Winner:  Audrey Hepburn's Neck, by Alan Brown
Finalists:

• Virgin Widows, by Gu Hua, translated by Howard Goldblatt 
• East to America: Korean American Life Stories, by Elaine H. Kim and Eui-Young Yu
• The Weight of the Yen, by R. Taggart Murphy
• Hiroshima Forever: The Ecology of Mourning, by Michael Perlman
• Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science, by David Williams