Books in Southern Book Prize
Awarded since 1999, this literary award is given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). It was first awarded in 1999.[1] Nominated books must be Southern in nature or by a Southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of its customers.
2025
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Not Like Other Girls | Meredith Adamo | Winner | Log In To Like |
2024
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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When Sea Becomes Sky | Gillian McDunn | Winner | Log In To Like |
2023
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Nigel and the Moon | Antwan Eady | Winner | Log In To Like |
2022
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Keep Your Head Up | Aliya King Neil | Winner | Log In To Like |
2021
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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I Am Every Good Thing | Derrick D. Barnes | Winner | Log In To Like |
2020
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Gilded Wolves | Roshani Chokshi | Winner | Log In To Like |
2019
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe | Jo Hackl | Winner | Log In To Like |
2018
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Flame in the Mist | Renée Ahdieh | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Tumble & Blue | Cassie Beasley | Winner | Log In To Like |
2017
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Lily and Dunkin | Donna Gephart | Winner | Log In To Like |
2016
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Serafina and the Black Cloak | Robert Beatty | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Mosquitoland | David Arnold | Winner | Log In To Like |
2015
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | Log In To Like |
| League of Seven | Alan Gratz | Winner | Log In To Like |
2014
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Moon and More | Sarah Dessen | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Girl from Felony Bay | J.E. Thompson | Winner | Log In To Like |
2013
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore | William Joyce | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Three Times Lucky | Sheila Turnage | Winner | Log In To Like |
2012
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond | Mary Quattlebaum | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact | A. J. Hartley | Winner | Log In To Like |
2011
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Countdown | Ben Mikaelsen | Winner | Log In To Like |
2010
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Secret World of Walter Anderson | Hester Bass | Winner | Log In To Like |
2009
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Two Bobbies | Kirby Larson | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Graceling | Kristin Cashore | Winner | Log In To Like |
2008
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Deep in the Swamp | Donna Bateman | Winner | Log In To Like |
2007
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Alabama Moon | Watt Key | Winner | Log In To Like |
2006
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Rosa | Nikki Giovanni | Winner | Log In To Like |
2005
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Peter And The Starcatchers | Dave Barry | Winner | Log In To Like |
2004
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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How I Became a Pirate | Melinda Long | Winner | Log In To Like |
2003
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | Winner | Log In To Like |
2002
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| How Animals Saved the People | J.J. Reneaux | Winner | Log In To Like |
2001
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | Winner | Log In To Like |
2000
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Bugs & Critters I Have Known | Ann Heiskell Rickey | Winner | Log In To Like |
1999
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Out of the Ocean | Debra Frasier | Winner | Log In To Like |