Salon Book Awards

The look books
From glamour-pusses to global warming, criminal mug shots to art stars, Salon's seasonal guide to coffee-table books has something to enchant just about everyone.
Their favorite things
Writers, filmmakers and other notable figures tip us off to the stuff that most excited them this year.
Salon Book Awards 2007
From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.
Best nonfiction of 2006
Forget the political treatises. This year, the nonfiction books that captivated us most told stories: Of food, of family, of secrets.
"What Is the What"
A scary interaction in America makes Valentino long to be back in a Sudanese refugee camp.
Best fiction of 2006
This year, stories from five extraordinary writers about Africa, 9/11's aftermath and the Civil War captivated us the most.
Best debuts of 2006
The creator of a wisecracking high-school sleuth and a moving graphic memoirist wowed us this year with outstanding first books.
Our favorite books
From a gripping novel about terrorism to the memoir of a cross-country stripteaser, we pick the best -- that is, the most pleasurable -- reading experiences of 2001.
Salon Book Awards
Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end.
Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World
Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn
Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
Original Bliss
Original Bliss
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Plainsong
Plainsong
Salon Book Awards
Ten titles that kept us up all night in 1999
Books of the Year
How we picked them. Why we fell in love.

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