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
Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel
37 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2019
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Becoming
List Price: $32.50
Crown (Nov 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
ISBN: 9781524763138Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
List Price: $24.99
Amistad (May 08, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 9780062748201Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
List Price: $44.99
Oxford University Press (Feb 01, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 944 pages
ISBN: 9780195089578Publisher: Oxford University Press
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
List Price: $27.00
Grand Central Publishing (May 22, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781538761038Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
List Price: $35.00
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Jul 10, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
ISBN: 9781631491177Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Winner – Children
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly, Illustrated by Laura Freeman
List Price: $18.99
HarperCollins (Jan 23, 2018)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9780062742469Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Children
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
by Tonya Bolden
List Price: $19.99
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Jan 09, 2018)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 9781419725463Publisher: Abrams
Nominee – Children
I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t
List Price: $18.99
The Blue Sky Press (Feb 27, 2018)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9781338166903Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Children
The Word Collector
List Price: $17.99
Orchard Books (Jan 30, 2018)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9780545865029Publisher: Orchard Books
Nominee – Children
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
by Tahereh Mafi
List Price: $18.99
HarperCollins (Oct 16, 2018)
Young Adult, Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780062866561Publisher: HarperCollins
Winner – Debut Author
Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family
by David Mann and Shaun Sanders
List Price: $24.99
Thomas Nelson (Nov 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN: 9780785220091Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Nominee – Debut Author
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
List Price: $25.99
The New Press (May 08, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781620973356Publisher: The New Press
Nominee – Debut Author
Small Country
by Gael Faye
List Price: $25.00
Hogarth Press (Jun 05, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN: 9781524759872Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
Heads of the Colored People (paperback): Stories
List Price: $16.00
Atria / 37 Ink (Jan 22, 2019)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781501168000Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Debut Author
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice
by Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II
List Price: $80.00
Lexington Books (Apr 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 112 pages
ISBN: 9781498535632Publisher: Lexington Books
Winner – Fiction
An American Marriage: A Novel
by Tayari Jones
List Price: $30.00
Algonquin Books (Feb 06, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9781616208776Publisher: Workman Publishing Co., Inc.
Nominee – Fiction
They Come in All Colors
List Price: $26.00
Atria Books (May 29, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781501172328Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Fiction
Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray
List Price: $15.00
Touchstone (Jun 19, 2018)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
ISBN: 9781501183218Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Fiction
Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15)
List Price: $26.00
Grand Central Publishing (Jul 31, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN: 9781455569762Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Fiction
Who Is the Black Panther?: A Novel of the Marvel Universe
List Price: $9.99
Titan Books (May 08, 2018)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
ISBN: 9781785659478Publisher: Titan Publishing Group
Winner – Instructional
Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life
by Daymond John
List Price: $27.00
Currency (Jan 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780804189958Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Poised for Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond
List Price: $29.99
Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 29, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 283 pages
ISBN: 9783319645735Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Nominee – Instructional
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim
List Price: $20.00
Ballantine Books (Oct 30, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN: 9780525619772Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration
by Carla Hall
List Price: $29.99
Harper Wave (Oct 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780062669834Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Nonfiction
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
by Beverly Bond
List Price: $30.00
Atria Books (Feb 27, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781501157929Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin
List Price: $26.99
St. Martin’s Press (Jun 05, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781250205797Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Nominee – Nonfiction
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
List Price: $24.99
Amistad (May 08, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 9780062748201Publisher: HarperCollins
Winner – Poetry
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
by Alice Walker
List Price: $25.00
Atria / 37 Ink (Oct 02, 2018)
Poetry, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781501179525Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Poetry
Ghost, Like a Place
List Price: $15.95
Alice James Books (Sep 18, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 100 pages
ISBN: 9781938584954Publisher: Alice James Books
Nominee – Poetry
Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
List Price: $17.95
HarperTorch (Jun 12, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 120 pages
ISBN: 9781597096096Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Poetry
Refuse: Poems
List Price: $17.00
University of Pittsburgh Press (Sep 18, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
ISBN: 9780822965602Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Nominee – Poetry
The Gospel According to Wild Indigo
List Price: $15.95
Southern Illinois University Press (Feb 22, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780809336609Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Winner – Youth/Teens
The Dream of America
List Price: $17.99
Nancy Paulsen Books (Aug 28, 2018)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780399252525Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
The Journey of Little Charlie
List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Jan 30, 2018)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780545156660Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin
List Price: $19.99
Scholastic Press (Jan 02, 2018)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780545723336Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
The 5 O’Clock Band
by Troy Andrews, Illustrated by Bryan Collier
List Price: $17.99
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Jun 19, 2018)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9781419728365Publisher: Abrams
Nominee – Youth/Teens
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden
List Price: $19.99
Bloomsbury YA (Sep 11, 2018)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781547600762Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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