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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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*''The Giant's House: A Romance'' by ]
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*''The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War'' by ]
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*''Reader's Block'' by ]
*''The Shadow Man'' by ]
*''The Temple Bombing'' by ]

===1997===
*'']'' by ]
*''Because They Wanted to: Stories'' by ]
*''Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village'' by ]
*''How Proust Can Change Your Life'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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===1998===
*''At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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*''A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Thirst'' by ]
*''The Voyage of the Narwhal'' by ]
*'']'' by ]

===1999===
*'']'' by ]
*''Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Original Bliss'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Ballantine Reader's Circle)'' by ]
*''Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption'' by ]

===2000===
*'']'' by ]
*''An American Story'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams'' by ]
*''Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900'' by ]
*''Lying Awake'' by ]
*''The Name of the World: A Novel'' by ]
*''Pontius Pilate : The Biography of an Invented Man'' by ]
*''The Social Lives of Dogs'' by ]
*'']'' by ]

===2001===
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Borrowed Finery: A Memoir'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Stranger Things Happen: Stories'' by ]
*''Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America'' by ]
*'']'' by ]

===2002===
No awards were given for the year of 2002.
===2003===
*''American Woman: A Novel'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Brick Lane'' by ]
*''The Bug'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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*''I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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===2004===
*''American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies'' by ]
*''Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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*''Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale'' by ]
*''Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''The Working Poor: Invisible in America'' by ]

===2005===
*'']'' by ]
*''The Assassins' Gate'' by ]
*''Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Them: A Memoir of Parents'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Tulia'' by ]
*''Veronica'' by ]

===2006===
*'']'' by ]
*''A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel'' by ]
*''The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Sweet and Low: A Family Story'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]

===2007===
*'']'' by ]
*''The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam'' by ]
*''Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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===2008===
*'']'' by ]
*''Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel'' by ]
*''Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are'' by ]
*''The Likeness'' by ]
*''The Northern Clemency'' by ]
*''A Person of Interest: A Novel'' by ]
*''Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood'' by ]
*''The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order'' by ]
*''The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective'' by ]

===2009===
*'']'' by ]
*''Await Your Reply'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories'' by ]
*''A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press Reference Library)'' by ]
*''Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir'' by ]
*''Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee'' by ]

===2010===
Published by Laura Miller December 7, 2010.<ref>Laura Miller. , - Salon, Dec 7, 2010.</ref>
*''The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them'' by ]
*'']'' by ] (tied with John Lanchester)
*''I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay'' by ] (tied with Michael Lewis)
*''Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran -- a Journey Behind the Headlines'' by ]
*'']'' by ]
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*'']'' by ]
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==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

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


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