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===2008=== ===2008===
*2666 by Roberto Bolaño *'']'' by ]
*Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen *''Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel'' by ]
*Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker *''Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are'' by ]
*The Likeness by Tana French *''The Likeness'' by ]
*The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher *''The Northern Clemency'' by ]
*A Person of Interest: A Novel by Susan Choi *''A Person of Interest: A Novel'' by ]
*Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris *''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 Joan Wickersham *''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 *''The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective'' by ]

===2009=== ===2009===
*The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by *Richard Holmes *The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by *Richard Holmes

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Salon Book Awards is an annual literary award given by the editors of Salon.com to fiction and nonfiction books published the previous year. The editors' criteria for winning books are:

"..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."

The award was established in 1996.

Winners of Salon Book Awards

The following is a list of the winners of the Salon Book Awards for each year.

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

No awards were given for the year of 2002.

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

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

2010

Published by Laura Miller December 7, 2010.

Notes

  1. Salon Book Awards, December 1996, inaugural year.
  2. Salon Book Award Winners
  3. Laura Miller. "The best nonfiction books of 2010", "The best fiction of 2010" - Salon, Dec 7, 2010.

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