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.
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Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel
39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2016
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Between The World And Me
List Price: $26.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jul 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
- 5-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 10-Time AALBC.com Bestseller!
- Indies Choice Book Awards (2016)
- NAACP Image Award for Literature (2016)
- Kirkus Prize Winner/Finalist (2015)
- National Book Award Winner/Finalist (2015)
- NYT Notable Book (2015)
- 1-Time Power List Bestseller
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist/Winner (2016)
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
ISBN: 9780812993547Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye
List Price: $25.99
Amistad (May 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780062135513Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jun 30, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780807012604Publisher: Beacon Press
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Power Forward: My Presidential Education
by Reggie Love
List Price: $26.00
Simon & Schuster (Feb 03, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781476763347Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Winner – Children
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
List Price: $16.99
Albert Whitman & Company (Feb 01, 2015)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780807530177Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Nominee – Children
New Shoes
by Susan Meyer
List Price: $16.95
Holiday House (Jan 30, 2015)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9780823425280Publisher: Holiday House
Nominee – Children
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein
List Price: $16.99
Candlewick Press (Jul 14, 2015)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780763665937Publisher: Candlewick Press
Nominee – Children
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
by Nikki Grimes
List Price: $18.99
Orchard Books (Jan 06, 2015)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 56 pages
ISBN: 9780439793384Publisher: Orchard Books
Nominee – Children
If You Plant a Seed
by Kadir Nelson
List Price: $18.99
Balzer + Bray (Mar 03, 2015)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780062298898Publisher: HarperCollins
Winner – Debut Author
The Fishermen: A Novel
List Price: $26.00
Little, Brown and Company (Apr 14, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780316338370Publisher: Hachette Book Group
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
List Price: $27.95
Riverhead Books (Sep 08, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN: 9781594633232Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
The Star Side of Bird Hill
List Price: $25.95
Penguin Press (Jun 30, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781594205958Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America
by April Ryan
List Price: $24.95
Rowman & Littlefield (Feb 15, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 9781442238411Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Nominee – Debut Author
The Turner House
List Price: $23.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Apr 14, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN: 9780544303164Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Winner – Fiction
Stand Your Ground: A Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray
List Price: $16.00
Touchstone (Jun 01, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
ISBN: 9781476792996Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Fiction
Under the Udala Trees
List Price: $26.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Sep 22, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780544003446Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nominee – Fiction
Mama’s Boy
List Price: $16.00
Gallery Books (Jul 01, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback
ISBN: 9781476714950Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Fiction
Driving The King: A Novel
by Ravi Howard
List Price: $25.99
Harper (Jan 06, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780060529611Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Fiction
Ghost Summer: Stories
List Price: $15.95
Prime Books (Sep 01, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781607014539Publisher: Prime Books
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
List Price: $30.00
Clarkson Potter (Feb 03, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 9780804137935Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories
List Price: $22.95
Agate Surrey (Sep 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781572841734Publisher: Agate Publishing Inc
Nominee – Instructional
Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self
by Sakina Ibrahim, Jessie Lee, and Rah Crawford
List Price: $18.99
CreateSpace (May 26, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 78 pages
ISBN: 9781512388909Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Nominee – Instructional
Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom
List Price: $16.50
CreateSpace (Jul 16, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 478 pages
ISBN: 9781492769200Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Nominee – Instructional
Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home
List Price: $16.00
Running Press (Mar 10, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 9780762457557Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Winner – Nonfiction
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
List Price: $25.99
Amistad (Jun 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780062201003Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Light Of The World: A Memoir
List Price: $26.00
Grand Central Publishing (Apr 21, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781455599875Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Nonfiction
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman
List Price: $35.00
Palgrave Macmillan (Nov 05, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 178 pages
ISBN: 9781137475015Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Nominee – Nonfiction
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jan 27, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780385529983Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
by Wil Haygood
List Price: $32.50
Knopf (Sep 15, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
ISBN: 9780307957191Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Poetry
How to Be Drawn
List Price: $20.00
William Morrow (Mar 31, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780143126881Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Poetry
Redbone
List Price: $18.95
Aquarius Press/Willow Books (Oct 01, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
ISBN: 9780996139083Publisher: Aquarius Press/Willow Books
Nominee – Poetry
Wild Hundreds
List Price: $15.95
University of Pittsburgh Press (Sep 09, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
ISBN: 9780822963837Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Nominee – Poetry
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Ross Gay
List Price: $15.95
University of Pittsburgh Press (Jan 07, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780822963318Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Nominee – Poetry
Reconnaissance: Poems
List Price: $23.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 01, 2015)
Poetry, Hardcover, 64 pages
ISBN: 9780374248284Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Winner – Youth/Teens
X: A Novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz, Illustrated by Kekla Magoon
List Price: $16.99
Candlewick Press (Jan 06, 2015)
Young Adult, Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780763669676Publisher: Candlewick Press
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Untwine
List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Sep 29, 2015)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780545423038Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Stella by Starlight
List Price: $17.99
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Jan 06, 2015)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781442494978Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace
by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson
List Price: $10.00
CreateSpace (Sep 29, 2015)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Paperback, 102 pages
ISBN: 9781517594282Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
List Price: $22.99
Roaring Brook Press (Sep 29, 2015)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 9781596439733Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
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