The winners of the 2021 Southern Book Prize, sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and nominated by Southern indie booksellers and voted on by their customers, are:
Fiction: The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels (Hub City Press)
Nonfiction: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey (Ecco)
Children's: I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James (Nancy Paulsen Books).
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The winners of the 2020 Ripped Bodice Awards for Excellence in Romantic Fiction, sponsored by the Ripped Bodice Bookstore and honoring "the best books of the year in the bestselling romance genre," are:
Go Deep by Rilzy Adams
Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur