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2006 SIBA Book Award

Each year, hundreds of booksellers across the South vote on their favorite "handsell" books of the year. These are the "southern" books they have most enjoyed giving to customers; the ones that they couldn't stop talking about. The SIBA Book Award was created to recognize great books of southern origin.

Books are nominated in several categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, lifestyle and children's. For a book to be eligible, it must be set in the South, and it must have been published within the 2005 calendar year. In order to promote diversity in the award, no author can win the award in the same category twice.

Go to the SIBA Guide to Nominated Titles

Nominations closed February 5th. SIBA stores will vote on finalists from the list of nominated books. Finalists will be announced the first week in April. SIBA Book Award winners will be announced the first week of June.