SIBA Book Award 1999-2013

from SIBA Book Award and wikipedia accessed 7/6/13.

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 award was originally called the "SEBA" Book Award.
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.
Winners

2013 SIBA Book Award Finalists:

Fiction
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash --Winner!
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Ecco Press)
The Cove by Ron Rash (Ecco Press)
Sea Change by Karen White (New American LIbrary)
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer (St. Martins Press)
Stray Decorum by George Singleton (Dzanc Books)

Poetry
Descent by Kathryn Stripling Byer  --Winner!
Permanent Camp by George Ellison (History Press)
Thrall by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Nonfiction
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
Down Bohicket Road: An Artist S Journey. Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte. with Excerpts from Alfreda S World by Mary Whyte (University of South Carolina Press)
Losing My Sister by Judy Goldman (John F. Blair Publisher)
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop by Ron Rice
Stand Up That Mountain by Jay Erskine Leutze --Winner!

Cooking
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day & Griffith Day --Winner!
Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate by Fred Thompson
Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart
Around the Southern Table: Coming Home to Comforting Meals and Treasured Memories by Rebecca Lang

Children's
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen 
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce --Winner!
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin and James Dean (HarperCollins)

Young Adult
34 Pieces of You by Carmen Rodrigues (Simon Pulse)
A Million Suns by Beth Revis (Razorbill)
Fathomless by Jackson Pearce (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage --Winner!

2012 Finalists:
Children
Always Neverland by Zoe Barton (HarperCollins)
Animalogy by Marianne Berkes (Sylvan Dell)
Bigger than a Breadbox by Laurel Snyder (Random House)
Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond by Mary Quattlebaum (Dawn Publications)

Cooking
Basic to Brilliant Y’all by Virginia Willis (Ten Speed Press)
New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle (University of North Carolina Press)
Southern Biscuits by Nathalie Dupree & Cynthia Graubart (Gibbs Smith)
Well, Shut My Mouth by Stephanie L. Tyson (John F. Blair)

Fiction
The Beach Trees by Karen White (New American Library)
The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe (Gallery Books)
The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew (Kensington)
Iron House by John Hart (St. Martin’s Press)
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier (Random House)

Nonfiction
Lions of the West by Robert Morgan (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Praying for Strangers by River Jordan (Berkley)
Upheaval in Charleston by Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius
Working South by Mary Whyte (University of South Carolina Press)
You Don’t Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Poetry
Abandoned Quarry by John Lane (Mercer University Press)
Head Off & Split: Poems (2011) by Nikky Finney (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)
Terroir by Robert Morgan (Penguin)
Waking by Ron Rash (Hub City Press)

Young Adult
The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan (Delacorte)
Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A. J. Hartley (Razorbill)
Magnolia League by Katie Crouch (Poppy Books)
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

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Previous years winners:

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

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

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

2002
Fiction: The Bridge (2001 novel), Doug Marlette
Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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