The 2022 Southern Book Prize finalists were announced this week. Read the press release here.

SBP 2022 Toolkit: Social Media Graphics, links to the edelweiss collection and the embedding code for adding the SBP Finalist Ballot to your website. We've also consolidated all the reviews of SBP finalists from SIBA booksellers.

What's next?

The Southern Book Prize Finalists Ballot will open on November 5 at www.southernbookprize.com. Stores are invited to encourage their customers to vote for their choice of "the best Southern Books of the Year." Voting will run through February 1st. Winners will be announced on Valentine's Day.

The Finalists: Fiction

The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington [Algonquin Books]
Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson [William Morrow]
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia [Flatiron Books]
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby [Flatiron Books]
When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash [William Morrow]
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins [St. Martin's Press]

Nonfiction

Black, White, and The Grey by Mashama Bailey [Lorena Jones Books]
Bress 'n' Nyam by Matthew Raiford [Countryman Press]
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light by Helen Ellis [Doubleday]
Fight Songs by Ed Southern [Blair]
Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl [Milkweed Editions]
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith [Little, Brown and Company]

Children's

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston [Balzer + Bray]
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas [Balzer + Bray]
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz [Scholastic Press]
Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli [Balzer + Bray]
Keep Your Head Up by Aliya King Neil [Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers]
The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown [HarperTeen]