 

Wanda Jewell of SIBA, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, emailed in with the latest SIBA best seller list. (Here’s a link: www.authorsroundthesouth.com/bestsellers.)

SIBA represents non-chain bookstores in 11 states of the Old Confederacy (including Two Sisters in Wilmington and Quarter Moon at Topsail Beach). They put together a list of what’s moving at their stores as well as a list of “Okra Picks,” a take-off on Oprah’s old picks, recommending new titles of particular regional interest.

In many ways, the SIBA list is not that different from The New York Times list. Southerners love Stieg Larsson and James Patterson, just like everybody else.

Quite a few books pop up on the SIBA list, though, that don’t make the national lists. Here’s a quick rundown on these from SIBA:

• Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank

• Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews

• Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares

• The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason

• Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress

• The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle

• The Story of Charlotte’s Web by Michael Sims

• The 17 Day Diet by Dr. Mike Moreno

• Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow

• Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook

• Love Wins by Rob Bell

• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (paperback)

• The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson (paperback)

• I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg (paperback)

• The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick (paperback)

• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (paperback)

By the way, SIBA has its own annual book awards, which we missed over the Fourth of July weekend.

This year’s winners include “Burning Bright” by North Carolina author Ron Rash (the first short-story collection to win the SIBA): “The Blueberry Years,” a memoir by organic farmer Jim Minick, for non-fiction; “Mockingbird” by Kathryn Erskine, in children’s literature; “A House of Branches” by Janisse Ray (“Ecology of a Cracker Childhood”) for poetry; “Southern My Way” by Gena Knox in the cookbook/food category; and “Countdown” by Deborah Wiles, in the young adult category.


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