“Barkskins,” by Annie Proulx (Scribner):

The 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are:

Pulitzer Prizeand National Book Award-winning author Annie Proulx’s violent, bloody, dramatic novel about the forming of the new world over 200 years ago.

“Homegoing,” by Yaa Gyasi (Alfred A. Knopf ):

A story of race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in 18thcentury Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.

“Perfume River,” by Robert Olen Butler (Grove Atlantic):

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Butler traces the legacy of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a North Florida family struggling with the past.

“The Fortunes,” by Peter Ho Davies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

Sly, funny, intelligent, the novel recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

“The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday):

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this bestseller is a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.

“The Veins of the Ocean,”

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