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Book Award Nomination Form

SIBA Book Award Nominations

Use this form to nominate a book for the SIBA Book Award. You can also email suggestions directly to Wanda Jewell at wanda@sibaweb.com.

Nominated titles must be southern in nature or by a southern author, or both. They must have been published the previous year (no reprints).

Nominations are accepted year round, but the nomination period for the current year's award closes on February 14th of that year. Nominations for books for the current year's award received after that date will not be considered.

Both booksellers and the general public may nominate. But all nominations must be identified with a SIBA member bookstore.

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Book Award Nominations

SIBA Book Award Nominations

(Nominations will be vetted for eligibility)

What happens next? The books on the list below will be added to a ballot that is sent to all SIBA member bookstores. Those stores will then select their top three picks in each category. The books with the most votes go on to become finalists, which are then sent out to a jury of booksellers who pick the winning title from teh finalists each category. Winners will be announced July 4th.

All the books below have been nominated by booksellers or their customers, but may not have been vetted for eligibility. The nominations list will be finalized when the nomination period closes on February 14.

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Title First Name Last Name Publisher Category Bookstore
A Bitter Truth Charles Todd William Morrow fiction Booklovers Bookstore
A Body in the Car Fran Rizer Bella Rosa fiction Beaufort Bookstore
A Body In The Car Fran Rizer Bella Rosa Books fiction Books Revisited
A Body in the Car Fran Rizer Bella Rosa Books fiction Island Books, Kitty Hawk, NC 27949
A Passel of Hate Joe Epley Self fiction Quail Ridge Books & Music
A Passel of Hate Joe Epley CreateSpace fiction The Book Shelf
A Passel of Hate Joe Epley CreateSpace fiction the Book Shelf
A Passel of Hate Joe Epley Createspace fiction The Book Shelf (Tryon)
Abandoned Quarry John Lane Mercer U. Press poetry City Lights Books, Sylva, NC
Accidental Birds of the Carolinas Marjorie Hudson Press 53 fiction Quail Ridge Books & Music
Ascent Doris Davenport CreateSpace poetry City Lights, Sylva, NC
Atlanta: A Novella Loreen Niewenhuis Main Street Rag Publishing Company fiction The Book Lady Bookstore
Ballad of Tom Dooley Sharyn McCrumb Thomas Dunne fiction Fiction Addiction
Basic to Brilliant Y'all Virginia Willis Ten Speed Press cooking Fiction Addiction
Bigger than a Breadbox Laurel Snyder Random House children Avid Bookshop
Blood Clay Valerie Nieman Press 53 fiction Barnhills Books*Wine*Art*Gifts
Breath of an Angel Karyn Henley Watermark / Random House young adult Blue Elephant Books
Breath of Angel Karyn Henley WaterBrook Press young%20adult Davis-Kidd-- Memphis
Breath of Angel Karyn Henley Waterbrook young adult Landmark Booksellers
Breath of Angels Karyn Henley Watermark/Random House young adult That Bookstore in Blytheville
Butteflys Daughter Mary Alice Monroe Hachette fiction Page After Page Bookstore
Butterfly's Daughter Mary Alice Monroe Gallery Books fiction Burry Bookstore
Butterfly's Daughter Mary Alice Monroe Gallery Books fiction Fiction Addiction
Coming Up for Air Patti Callahan Henry St. Martins fiction Fiction Addiction
Copperhead Rachel Richardson Carnegie Mellon poetry Flyleaf Books
 
Home Book Award Southern Indie Lit Crossword Puzzle Book
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The Southern Indie Lit Crossword Puzzle Book

Ten years of great southern lit for $9.95!

Ordering Information:

Bookstores: Available from Ingram, 978-0-9825205-0-5, SRP $9.95

Consumers: Available at Southern Indie Bookstores.

Play a sample puzzle online!

 

How well do you know your Southern lit? We dare you to use a pen on these crossword puzzles, each inspired by one of the winning titles of the SIBA Book Award, honoring ten years of the very best in Southern literature as chosen by the people who would know...Southern Independent Booksellers! A great gift for your book club, for puzzle-lovers, and anyone who loves Southern literature.

Hey, wait. . .where are the answers?!?

(click on a title to see the solution to the puzzles found in the book)

2009:
Serena, Ron Rash
Dear Darkness, Kevin Young
Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, Martha Hall Foose
The Prince of Frogtown, Rick Bragg
Graceling, Kristin Cashore
Two Bobbies, Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery

2008:
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
The House On Boulevard Street, David Kirby
A Love Affair with Southern Cooking, Jean Anderson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Deep in the Swamp, Donna Bateman, illustrated by Brian Lies

2007:
Alabama Moon, Watt Key
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
Keep and Give Away, Susan Meyers
Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields

2006:
Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
What Travels with Us, Darnell Arnoult
Being Dead is No Excuse, Gayden Metcalfe & Charlotte Hays
Marley & Me, John Grogan
Rosa, Nikki Giovanni

2005:
Saints at the River, Ron Rash
We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier, Celia Rivenbark
Frank Stitt’s Southern Table, Frank Stitt
A Companion for Owls, Maurice Manning
Peter & the Starcatcher, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

2004:
Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
The GRITS Guide to Life, Deborah Ford
The Gift of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis
Locales, Fred Chappell (Editor)
How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long

2003:
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
The Foster’s Market Cookbook, Sara Foster
Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer
Hoot!, Carl Hiaasen

2002:
The Bridge, Doug Marlette
Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

2001:
Jim the Boy, Tony Earley
Somebody Told Me, Rick Bragg
Zinc Fingers, Peter Meinke
Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

2000:
Look Back All the Green Valley, Fred Chappell
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
elegy for the southern drawl, Rodney Jones
Bugs & Critters I Have Known, Ann Heiskell Rickey

1999:
The Next Step in the Dance, Tim Gautreaux
Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
Someone Will Go On Owing, Andrew Glaze
Out of the Ocean, Debra Frasier



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