According to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, "Southern independent booksellers have selected the finalists for the 2020 Southern Book Prize, representing bookseller favorites from 2019 that are...either about the South or written by a Southern writer." The sixteen finalists that received the most nominations are a collection of the year's most beloved 'hand sells' in fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature.
Winners will be announced February 14, 2020.