SIBA Book Award

SIBA Book Award is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), first awarded in 1999. 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 their customers. Voting categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature.

The first awards were given in 1999.^[1] From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism.^[1] Starting in 2008 winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers, instead of by popular vote.^[1]

Winners

2011

• Fiction: Burning Bright by Ron Rash
• Nonfiction: The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick
• Young Adult: Countdown by Deborah Wiles
• Children: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
• Poetry: A House of Branches by Janisse Ray
• Cookbook: Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors by Gena Knox

2010

• Fiction: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Nonfiction: The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg
• Children: The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass
• Cookbook: The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern by Ted and Matt Lee

2009

• Fiction: Serena, Ron Rash
• Nonfiction: The Prince of Frogtown, Rick Bragg
• Young Adult: Graceling, Kristin Cashore
• Children: Two Bobbies, Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery
• Poetry: Dear Darkness, Kevin Young
• Cookbook: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, Martha Hall Foose

2008

• Fiction: Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
• Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
• Children: Deep in the Swamp, Donna Bateman, illustrated by Brian Lies
• Poetry: The House On Boulevard Street, David Kirby
• Cookbook: A Love Affair with Southern Cooking, Jean Anderson

2007

• Fiction: Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
• Nonfiction: Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
• Children: Alabama Moon, Watt Key
• Poetry: Keep and Give Away, Susan Meyers
• Cookbook: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris

2006

• Fiction: Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
• Nonfiction: Marley & Me, John Grogan
• Children: Rosa, Nikki Giovanni (with Bryan Collier)
• Poetry: What Travels with Us, Darnell Arnoult
• Cookbook: Being Dead is No Excuse, Gayden Metcalfe & Charlotte Hays

2005

• Fiction: Saints at the River, Ron Rash
• Nonfiction: We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier, Celia Rivenbark
• Children: Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
• Poetry: A Companion for Owls, Maurice Manning
• Cookbook: Frank Stitt’s Southern Table, Frank Stitt

2004

• Fiction: Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
• Nonfiction: The GRITS Guide to Life, Deborah Ford
• Children: How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long
• Poetry: Locales, Fred Chappell (Editor)
• Cookbook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis

2003

• Fiction: The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• Nonfiction: My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
• Children: Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
• Poetry: Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer
• Cookbook: The Foster’s Market Cookbook, Sara Foster

2002

• Fiction: The Bridge (2001 novel), Doug Marlette
• Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
• Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

2001

• Fiction: Jim the Boy, Tony Earley
• Nonfiction: Somebody Told Me, Rick Bragg
• Children: Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
• Poetry: Zinc Fingers, Peter Meinke

2000

• Fiction: Look Back All the Green Valley, Fred Chappell
• Nonfiction: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
• Children: Bugs & Critters I Have Known, Ann Heiskell Rickey
• Poetry: Elegy for the Southern Drawl, Rodney Jones

1999

• Fiction: The Next Step in the Dance, Tim Gautreaux
• Nonfiction: Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
• Children: Out of the Ocean, Debra Frasier
• Poetry: Someone Will Go On Owing, Andrew Glaze

References

External links

• SIBA Book Award, official website
• SIBA Book Award at LibraryThing