The winners are:
Fiction:
"White Teeth" by Zadie Smith (Random House)
"The Name of the World" by Denis Johnson (HarperCollins)
"Lying Awake" by Mark Salzman (Knopf)
"Abe" by Richard Slotkin (Holt)"
"Being Dead" by Jim Crace (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Nonfiction:
"The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams" by Nasdijj (Houghton Mifflin)
"An American Story" by Debra Dickerson (Pantheon)
"Pontius Pilate" by Ann Wroe (Random House)
"The Boxer Rebellion" by Diana Preston (Walker & Co.)
"The Social Lives of Dogs" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Simon & Schuster)

"Our list is decidedly personal," says Miller. "We've chosen our favorite books of the year, regardless of how much publicity they've gotten or how many copies sold. The 10 books we chose aren't necessarily the most critically acclaimed, or by the most widely revered authors, and you won't find many bestsellers among them, either. But we loved them, we couldn't put them down, we rifled through their pages like a thief through a jewel box, knowing that we'd found treasure."

Previous winners include "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, "The Family Markowitz" by Allegra Goodman, "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester, "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier and "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer.

Miller is the editor of the recently published "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors," an opinionated and irreverent look at more than 200 of the most fascinating writers of our time. The collection features author profiles, reviews and recommended reading lists penned by an international cast of critics and reviewers.

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SOURCE Salon.com