Authors 'Round the South

SIBA Winners

2010
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Most They Every Had by Rick Bragg
Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern by Ted and Matt Lee
The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass

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

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

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

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