The Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced, but the jury is still out on which books will be recognized as the best Southern book of the year!

Nominations for the Southern Book Prize close on October 15.
All nominations must come via a SIBA bookseller. For a book to be eligible, it must be set in the South and/or the author must be Southern (preferably both!). It must have been published within the previous calendar year.

Nominate here

Finalists will be announced November 1st, and voting on the winners takes place between November 5 and February 1. SIBA Bookstores and their customers are allowed to vote on the finalists ballot.

Winners are announced February 14th.

The Southern Book Prize, was created to recognize great books of Southern origin. All the finalists and winning books are promoted to the media and featured on SIBA's websites. This is a great opportunity to involve your customers and generate excitement for titles you are especially passionate about. 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 selling to customers; the ones that they couldn't stop talking about.

Read more about SBP and the 2022 Winners