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Revision as of 17:24, 31 December 2010 by Wolfehhgg (talk | contribs) (Added list of winners)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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
- 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
- Salon Book Awards, December 1996, inaugural year.
- Salon Book Award Winners
External links
- Salon Book Awards, official site.
- Salon Book Awards Winners, previous winners list collected at LibraryThing.