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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

  • 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

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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