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'''Salon Book Awards''' is an annual ] given by the editors of ] to fiction and nonfiction books published the previous year. The editors criteria for winning books are:
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:"..the books we'd wholeheartedly recommend to our friends, books we'd clear our social calendar to finish, books we returned to eagerly even when we could barely focus our eyes on a page. They remind us of why we fell in love with reading and why we keep at it in a world that's simultaneously cluttered with mediocre books and increasingly indifferent to the written word."<ref>, December 1996, inaugural year.</ref>


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The award was established in 1996.
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==Winners of Salon Book Awards==
The following is a list of the winners of the Salon Book Awards for each year.<ref></ref>
===1996===
*Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
*The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman
*The Giant's House: A Romance by Elizabeth McCracken
*Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
*The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War by Paul Hendrickson
*The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
*My Dark Places by James Ellroy
*Reader's Block by David Markson
*The Shadow Man by Mary Gordon
*The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene
===1997===
*Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
*Because They Wanted to: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
*Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman
*Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
*Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge Schmemann
*How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
*Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
*Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
*The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
*The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
===1998===
*At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix Gray
*A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
*Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
*Blindness by José Saramago
*A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage by Beth Kephart
*Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
*The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
*Thirst by Ken Kalfus
*The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
*We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
===1999===
*Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
*Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
*Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
*Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World by Mark Fritz
*Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
*Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy
*Plainsong by Kent Haruf
*A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
*Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Judith Thurman
*Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption by Lisa Belkin
===2000===
*Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln by Richard Slotkin
*An American Story by Debra Dickerson
*Being Dead by Jim Crace
*The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by Nasdijj
*Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston
*Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
*The Name of the World: A Novel by Denis Johnson
*Pontius Pilate : The Biography of an Invented Man by Ann Wroe
*The Social Lives of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
*White Teeth by Zadie Smith
===2001===
*Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
*Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
*Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox
*The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
*John Adams by David McCullough
*John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
*Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
*Stranger Things Happen: Stories by Kelly Link
*Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America by Lily Burana
*Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds
===2002===
No awards were given for the year of 2002.
===2003===
*American Woman: A Novel by Susan Choi
*Any Human Heart by William Boyd
*Brick Lane by Monica Ali
*The Bug by Ellen Ullman
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
*Drop City by T. C. Boyle
*The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
*I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark by Brian Hall
*Old School by Tobias Wolff
*Property by Valerie Martin
===2004===
*American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman
*Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
*Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
*Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
*The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
*Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill
*Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
*Snow by Orhan Pamuk
*The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
===2005===
*1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
*The Assassins' Gate by George Packer
*Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
*Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
*Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
*Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
*On Beauty by Zadie Smith
*Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray
*Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls
*Tulia by Nate Blakeslee
*Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
===2006===
*The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright
*A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel by Ken Kalfus
*The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max
*Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
*James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
*The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
*The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
*Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
*Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen
*Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
*What Is the What by Dave Eggers
*Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiongo
===2007===
*The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
*The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Tom Bissell
*Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
*Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
*The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman
*Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
*Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
*Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
*The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
*The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
===2008===
*2666 by Roberto Bolaño
*Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen
*Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker
*The Likeness by Tana French
*The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
*A Person of Interest: A Novel by Susan Choi
*Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
*The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
*The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
===2009===
*The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by *Richard Holmes
*Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
*The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
*Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
*Columbine by Dave Cullen
*The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
*Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories by Lydia Millet
*A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Greil Marcus
*Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill
*Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe Hooper

==Notes==
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==External links==
*, official site.
*, previous winners list collected at ].


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