Forty-eight years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Since winners are announced in October, emphasize books by and about Dr. King and 14 others who have won: Ralph Bunche, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Kofi Annan, Sir William Arthur Lewis, Albert John Luthuli, Wangari Maathai, Nelson Mandela, Toni Morrison, Anwar El Sadat, Wole Soyinka, Desmond Tutu, Derek Walcott, and President Barack Obama.

A Fascinating Journey
In Summoned from the Margin, Lamin Sanneh details his impoverished upbringing in West Africa through his education in the U.S. and Europe, his conversion from Islam to Christianity, and his distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, and Ghana.