Southern Book Prize


Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, 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. From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism. Starting in 2008 winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers, instead of by popular vote. Beginning in 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Award and named on honor of southern writer Pat Conroy.

Winners

SIBA Book Award

1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
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
2012
  • Fiction: Iron House by John Hart
  • Nonfiction: Lions of the West by Robert Morgan
  • Young Adult: Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A. J. Hartley
  • Children: Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond by Mary Quattlebaum
  • Poetry: Abandoned Quarry by John Lane
  • Cookbook: The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020