NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

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The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature. You may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.

38 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2014

Winner – Biography/Autobiography
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Buck: A Memoir
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Mom & Me & Mom
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Winner – Children
Nelson Mandela
Nominee – Children
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!
Nominee – Children
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
Nominee – Children
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me
Nominee – Children
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
Winner – Debut Author
Nine Years Under
Nominee – Debut Author
Ghana Must Go
Nominee – Debut Author
The Returned
Nominee – Debut Author
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story
Nominee – Debut Author
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!
Winner – Fiction
Anybody’s Daughter
Nominee – Fiction
Never Say Never
Nominee – Fiction
Who Asked You?
Nominee – Fiction
Little Green
Winner – Instructional
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life
Nominee – Instructional
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education
Nominee – Instructional
Do I Look Like an ATM?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
Nominee – Instructional
The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs
Nominee – Instructional
Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It)
Winner – Nonfiction
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Nominee – Nonfiction
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
Nominee – Nonfiction
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations
Nominee – Nonfiction
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
Winner – Poetry
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Nominee – Poetry
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Nominee – Poetry
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
Nominee – Poetry
The Cineaste: Poems
Nominee – Poetry
The Collected Poems of Ai
Winner – Youth/Teens
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers)
Nominee – Youth/Teens