Announcing the 2021 Southern Book Prize Finalists
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FICTION | NONFICTION | CHILDREN’S
Deadline to vote is February 1, 2021
Vote for your Choice Now!Southern independent booksellers have selected the finalists for the 2021 Southern Book Prize, representing bookseller favorites from 2020 that are Southern in nature—either about the South, or by a Southern writer. Nominations were submitted by bookstore members of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) and culled from books that have received strong reviews from Southern booksellers. The sixteen finalists which received the highest number of nominations are a collection of the most beloved “hand sells” in fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature of the year.
FICTION
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
St. Martin’s Press, March 2020
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Quirk Books, April 2020
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
Hub City Press, May 2020
Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle
Algonquin Books, July 2020
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Riverhead Books, June 2020
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Tordotcom, October 2020
NONFICTION
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Dial Press, March 2020
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
Ecco, July 2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Tin House Books, February 2020
World of Wonders by Amiee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (illus)
Milkweed Editions, September 2020
The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant
Simon & Schuster, September 2020
CHILDREN’S
Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnis
Katherine Tegen Books, March 2020
Yes, No, Maybe So by Becky Albertalli, Aisha Saeed
Balzer + Bray, February 2020
After Squidnight by Johnathan E. Fenske
Penguin Workshop, July 2020
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (illus.)
Nancy Paulsen Books, September 2020
Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
Wednesday Books, March 2020