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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=== | |||
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| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *''The Giant's House: A Romance'' by ] | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *''The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War'' by Paul Hendrickson | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *''Reader's Block'' by ] | |||
| *''The Shadow Man'' by ] | |||
| *''The Temple Bombing'' by ] | |||
| ===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 | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *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 | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| ===2001=== | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *Bel Canto by Ann Patchett | |||
| *Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *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=== | |||
| *'']'' by ] | |||
| *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== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| *, official site. | |||
| *, previous winners list collected at ]. | |||
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