NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
In 2023, the NAACP celebrates the 54th anniversary of Image Awards. There are 5 titles nominated in eight literature categories; Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens
You my print a list of all the award winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2016
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2015
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780812993547
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye
by Jan Gaye and David Ritz
Publication Date: May 01, 2015
List Price: $25.99
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062135513
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
by Arthur Browne
Publication Date: Jun 30, 2015
List Price: $27.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780807012604
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Power Forward: My Presidential Education
by Reggie Love
Publication Date: Feb 03, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781476763347
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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Winner - Children
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2015
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780807530177
Imprint: Albert Whitman & Company
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Parent Company: Albert Whitman & Company
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Nominee - Children
If You Plant a Seed
by Kadir Nelson
Publication Date: Mar 03, 2015
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780062298898
Imprint: Balzer + Bray
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Nominee - Children
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
by Nikki Grimes
Publication Date: Jan 06, 2015
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9780439793384
Imprint: Orchard Books
Publisher: Orchard Books
Parent Company: Orchard Books
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Nominee - Children
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein
Publication Date: Jul 14, 2015
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780763665937
Imprint: Candlewick Press
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Parent Company: Candlewick Press
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Nominee - Children
New Shoes
by Susan Meyer
Publication Date: Jan 30, 2015
List Price: $16.95
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780823425280
Imprint: Holiday House
Publisher: Holiday House
Parent Company: Holiday House, Inc.
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Winner - Debut Author
The Fishermen: A Novel
by Chigozie Obioma
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Apr 14, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316338370
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2016 BCALA Literary Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Apr 14, 2015
List Price: $23.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780544303164
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Star Side of Bird Hill
by Naomi Jackson
Publication Date: Jun 30, 2015
List Price: $25.95
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781594205958
Imprint: Penguin Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America
by April Ryan
Publication Date: Feb 15, 2015
List Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781442238411
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Parent Company: Rowman & Littlefield
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
by Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher
Publication Date: Sep 08, 2015
List Price: $27.95
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781594633232
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Fiction
Stand Your Ground: A Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 5 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Jun 01, 2015
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781476792996
Imprint: Touchstone
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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Nominee - Fiction
Driving The King: A Novel
by Ravi Howard
Publication Date: Jan 06, 2015
List Price: $25.99
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060529611
Imprint: Harper
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Nominee - Fiction
Under the Udala Trees
by Chinelo Okparanta
Publication Date: Sep 22, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780544003446
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Nominee - Fiction
Mama’s Boy
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781476714950
Imprint: Gallery Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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Nominee - Fiction
Ghost Summer: Stories
by Tananarive Due
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781607014539
Imprint: Prime Books
Publisher: Prime Books
Parent Company: Prime Books
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Winner - Instructional
Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family
by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams
Publication Date: Feb 03, 2015
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780804137935
Imprint: Clarkson Potter
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Instructional
Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self
by Sakina Ibrahim, Jessie Lee, and Rah Crawford
Publication Date: May 26, 2015
List Price: $18.99
Format: Paperback, 78 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781512388909
Imprint: CreateSpace
Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
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Nominee - Instructional
Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home
by Egypt Sherrod
Publication Date: Mar 10, 2015
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780762457557
Imprint: Running Press
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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Nominee - Instructional
Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom
by Cortez R. Rainey
Publication Date: Jul 16, 2015
List Price: $16.50
Format: Paperback, 478 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781492769200
Imprint: CreateSpace
Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
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Nominee - Instructional
Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories
by Jocelyn Delk Adams
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781572841734
Imprint: Agate Surrey
Publisher: Agate Publishing Inc
Parent Company: Agate Publishing Inc
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Winner - Nonfiction
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
by Pamela Newkirk
Publication Date: Jun 01, 2015
List Price: $25.99
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062201003
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Nominee - Nonfiction
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman
Publication Date: Nov 05, 2015
List Price: $35.00
Format: Hardcover, 178 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781137475015
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
by Wil Haygood
Publication Date: Sep 15, 2015
List Price: $32.50
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780307957191
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Light Of The World: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Alexander
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Apr 21, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781455599875
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy
Publication Date: Jan 27, 2015
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780385529983
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Poetry
How to Be Drawn
by Terrance Hayes
Publication Date: Mar 31, 2015
List Price: $20.00
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780143126881
Imprint: William Morrow
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Nominee - Poetry
Reconnaissance: Poems
by Carl Phillips
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
List Price: $23.00
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780374248284
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Nominee - Poetry
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Ross Gay
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Jan 07, 2015
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780822963318
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Parent Company: University of Pittsburgh
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Nominee - Poetry
Wild Hundreds
by Nate Marshall
- A Top 10 Book in the “Poetry Books of the 21st Century” Category
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2016 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Sep 09, 2015
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780822963837
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Parent Company: University of Pittsburgh
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Nominee - Poetry
Redbone
by Mahogany L. Browne
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
List Price: $18.95
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780996139083
Imprint: Aquarius Press/Willow Books
Publisher: Aquarius Press/Willow Books
Parent Company: Aquarius Press/Willow Books
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Winner - Youth/Teens
X: A Novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz, Illustrated by Kekla Magoon
Publication Date: Jan 06, 2015
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9780763669676
Imprint: Candlewick Press
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Parent Company: Candlewick Press
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Untwine
by Edwidge Danticat
Publication Date: Sep 29, 2015
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9780545423038
Imprint: Scholastic Press
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Parent Company: Scholastic Inc.
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper
Publication Date: Jan 06, 2015
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9781442494978
Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace
by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson
Publication Date: Sep 29, 2015
List Price: $10.00
Format: Paperback, 102 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9781517594282
Imprint: CreateSpace
Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publication Date: Sep 29, 2015
List Price: $22.99
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9781596439733
Imprint: Roaring Brook Press
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group