Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Fiction

Awards List

2015

The Invention of Wings
(Winner)
Sue Monk Kidd

Long Man
(Finalist)
Amy Greene

This Dark Road to Mercy
(Finalist)
Wiley Cash

Natchez Burning
(Finalist)
Greg Iles

Dollbaby
(Finalist)
Laura Lane McNeal

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
(Finalist)
Ron Rash

2014

Whistling Past the Graveyard
(Winner)
Susan Crandall

Life After Life
(Finalist)
Jill McCorkle

Sycamore Row
(Finalist)
John Grisham

Guests on Earth
(Finalist)
Lee Smith

The Tilted World
(Finalist)
Tom Franklin; Beth Ann Fennelly

2013

A Land More Kind Than Home
(Winner)
Wiley Cash

The Cove
(Finalist)
Ron Rash

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
(Finalist)
Ben Fountain

Sea Change
(Finalist)
Karen White

Shine Shine Shine
(Finalist)
Lydia Netzer

Stray Decorum
(Finalist)
George Singleton

2012

Iron House
(Winner)
John Hart

The Dry Grass of August
(Finalist)
Anna Jean Mayhew

The Beach Trees
(Finalist)
Karen White

The Butterfly's Daughter
(Finalist)
Mary Alice Monroe

Nightwoods
(Finalist)
Charles Frazier

2011

Burning Bright
(Winner)
Ron Rash

Bloodroot
(Finalist)
Amy Greene

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
(Finalist)
Beth Hoffman

On Folly Beach
(Finalist)
Karen White

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
(Finalist)
Tom Franklin

2010

The Help
(Winner)
Kathryn Stockett

The Last Child
(Finalist)
John Hart

The Devil's Punchbowl
(Finalist)
Greg Iles

South of Broad
(Finalist)
Pat Conroy

Dead Weight
(Finalist)
Batt Humphreys

A Quiet Belief in Angels
(Finalist)
R.J. Ellory

2009

Serena
(Winner)
Ron Rash

Mudbound
(Finalist)
Hillary Jordan

The House on Tradd Street
(Finalist)
Karen White

2008

Garden Spells
(Winner)
Sarah Addison Allen

Coal Black Horse
(Finalist)
Robert Olmstead

Thistle and Twigg
(Finalist)
Mary Saums

Down River
(Finalist)
John Hart

Rhett Butler's People
(Finalist)
Donald McCaig

2007

Thirteen Moons
(Winner)
Charles Frazier

Plum Wine
(Finalist)
Angela Davis-Gardner

The King of Lies
(Finalist)
John Hart

On Agate Hill
(Finalist)
Lee Smith

Smonk
(Finalist)
Tom Franklin

2006

Gods in Alabama
(Winner)
Joshilyn Jackson

The Pleasure Was Mine
(Finalist)
Tommy Hays

The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
(Finalist)
James Sheehan

2005

Saints at the River
(Winner)
Ron Rash

2004

Lunch at the Piccadilly
(Winner)
Clyde Edgerton

2003

The Secret Life of Bees
(Winner)
Sue Monk Kidd

The Half-Mammals of Dixie
(Nominee)
George Singleton

The Heaven Of Mercury
(Nominee)
Brad Watson

A Parchment of Leaves
(Nominee)
Silas House

The Little Friend
(Nominee)
Donna Tartt

The Last Girls
(Nominee)
Lee Smith

2002

The Bridge
(Winner)
Doug Marlette

Clay's Quilt
(Nominee)
Silas House

Cane River
(Nominee)
Lalita Tademy

Bel Canto
(Nominee)
Ann Patchett

Miss Julia Takes Over
(Nominee)
Ann B. Ross

Moon Women
(Nominee)
Pamela Duncan

First Lady
(Nominee)
Michael Malone

2001

Jim the Boy
(Winner)
Tony Earley

2000

Look Back All the Green Valley
(Winner)
Fred Chappell

Gap Creek
(Notable)
Robert Morgan

The Slow Way Back
(Notable)
Judy Goldman

Long Home
(Notable)
William Gay

1999

The Next Step in the Dance
(Winner)
Tim Gautreaux

The Ballad of Frankie Silver
(Notable)
Sharyn McCrumb

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
(Notable)
Kaye Gibbons

Quite a Year for Plums
(Notable)
Bailey White

Crossroad Blues
(Notable)
Ace Atkins

Daughter of My People
(Notable)
James Kilgo

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