Southern Fried

The Southern Independent Bookseller's Association has announced the nominees for the SIBA Book Awards. The award was created to recognize great books of southern origin and nominees are chosen by booksellers across the South from among the "southern" books they most enjoyed selling. I selected books we own to be listed here.

For a complete list, see the SIBA Book Award webpage.

Young Adult

Scrambled Eggs at Midnight / Brad Barkley

Part of Me / Kimberly Willis Holt

Samurai Shortstop / Alan Gratz

Get Real / Betty Hicks

Alabama Moon / Watt Key

Cookbooks

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence / Amy Sedaris

Paula Deen Celebrates! / Paula Deen

Southern Cooking / S.R. Dull

Deep South Parties: or, How to Survive the Southern Cocktail Hour Without a Box of French Onion Soup, a Block of Processed Cheese, or a Cocktail Weenie: a Cookbook Featuring the New Celebratory Cuisine of the South with Recollections and Stories From the Region / Robert St. John

The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-Be Southerners / Matt and Ted Lee

Fiction

The Collectors / David Baldacci

Lay of the Land / Richard Ford

The Judas Field / Howard Bahr

Back to Wando Passo / David Payne

The Templar Legacy / Steve Berry

Plum Wine / Angela Davis-Gardner

The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons

End of California / Steve Yarbrough

Miss Julia Stands Her Ground / Ann B. Ross

Nature Girl / Carl Hiaasen

One Mississippi / Mark Childress

On Agate Hill / Lee Smith

Sufficient Grace / Darnell Arnoult

The Worthy: a Ghost's Story / Will Clarke

Smonk, or Widow Town / Tom Franklin

Thirteen Moons / Charles Frazier

The Brief History of the Dead / Kevin Brockmeier

True Evil / Greg Iles

Eye of Vengeance / Jonathan King

King of Lies / John Hart

Nonfiction

Mockingbird: a Portrait of Harper Lee / Charles Shields

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town / John Grisham

An Inconvenient Truth: the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It / Al Gore

Lost Mountain: a Year in the Vanishing Wilderness / Erik Reece

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game / Michael Lewis

American Plague: the Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History

Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers / Elizabeth Edwards

The Creation: an Appeal to Save Life on Earth / Edward O. Wilson

LBJ: Architect of American Ambition / Randall Bennett Woods

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast / Douglas G. Brinkley

Blood and Thunder: an Epic of the American West / Hampton Sides

Happy Reading!

Holley