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
38 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2020
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780525561583Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
My Name Is Prince
by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
List Price: $90.00
Amistad (Nov 19, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780062939234Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
The Beautiful Ones
List Price: $30.00
Spiegel & Grau (Oct 29, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780399589652Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
List Price: $30.00
Viking Books (Apr 02, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780525558132Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
List Price: $26.00
Atria Books (Oct 15, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9781982141103Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Winner – Children
Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
List Price: $17.99
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Oct 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
ISBN: 9781534425361Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Children
Ruby Finds a Worry
by Tom Percival
List Price: $17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (Sep 03, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9781547602377Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Nominee – Children
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, Illustrated by Brittany Jackson
List Price: $17.99
Aladdin Paperbacks (Oct 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9781534451865Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Children
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
by Barry Wittenstein, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
List Price: $18.99
Neal Porter Books (Aug 27, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
ISBN: 9780823443314Publisher: Holiday House
Nominee – Children
Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
List Price: $17.99
Kokila (May 14, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780525553366Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Debut Author
I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer
by Hal Banfield
List Price: $60.00
Literary Revolutionary (Jul 21, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 100 pages
ISBN: 9781950279104Publisher: Literary Revolutionary
Nominee – Debut Author
The Farm
by Joanne Ramos
List Price: $27.00
Random House (May 07, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781984853752Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
List Price: $26.00
Howard Books (Sep 24, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781501188664Publisher: Howard Books
Nominee – Debut Author
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
List Price: $26.00
G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Dec 31, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780525541905Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Fiction
The Revisioners
List Price: $25.00
Counterpoint (Nov 05, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781640092587Publisher: Counterpoint
Nominee – Fiction
The Water Dancer
List Price: $28.00
One World (Sep 24, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
ISBN: 9780399590597Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
Red at the Bone
List Price: $26.00
Riverhead Books (Sep 17, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 9780525535270Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
List Price: $32.99
Amistad (May 07, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 1040 pages
ISBN: 9780062912985Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Fiction
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
List Price: $27.00
Scribner Book Company (Sep 10, 2019)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9781982110338Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Winner – Instructional
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
List Price: $14.99
Tiny Press (May 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Paperback, 108 pages
ISBN: 9781642500325Publisher: Tiny Press
Nominee – Instructional
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous
by Farah Merhi
List Price: $35.00
Tiller Press (Oct 22, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781982131241Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Instructional
Letters to the Finishers (who struggle to finish)
List Price: $13.99
NewSeason Books (Jun 01, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Paperback, 194 pages
ISBN: 9781733647212Publisher: NewSeason Books and Media
Nominee – Instructional
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
List Price: $26.00
Howard Books (Sep 24, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781501188664Publisher: Howard Books
Nominee – Instructional
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
by Jose Andres and Matt Goulding
List Price: $39.99
Anthony Bourdain/Ecco (May 21, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
ISBN: 9780062668387Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Nonfiction
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry
List Price: $18.00
Beacon Press (Sep 17, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 9780807076552Publisher: Beacon Press
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Yellow House: A Memoir
List Price: $26.00
Grove Press (Aug 13, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780802125088Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Nominee – Nonfiction
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
List Price: $30.00
Penguin Press (Apr 02, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780525559535Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
List Price: $27.99
Ecco Press (Mar 26, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780062684301Publisher: HarperCollins
Winner – Poetry
Felon: Poems
List Price: $26.95
W. W. Norton & Company (Oct 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Poetry, Hardcover, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780393652147Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Nominee – Poetry
Mistress
List Price: $16.00
New Issues Poetry & Prose (Oct 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
ISBN: 9781936970629Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Nominee – Poetry
Honeyfish
List Price: $16.00
New Issues Poetry & Prose (Apr 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Poetry, Paperback, 57 pages
ISBN: 9781936970599Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Nominee – Poetry
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
List Price: $25.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (Jan 15, 2019)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN: 9781635572612Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Nominee – Poetry
The Tradition
List Price: $17.00
Copper Canyon Press (Apr 02, 2019)
Picture Book, Poetry, Paperback, 110 pages
ISBN: 9781556594861Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Winner – Youth/Teens
Around Harvard Square
List Price: $14.95
Black Sheep (Apr 01, 2019)
Young Adult, Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
ISBN: 9781617757143Publisher: Akashic Books
Nominee – Youth/Teens
The Forgotten Girl
List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Nov 05, 2019)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781338317244Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk
by Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze
List Price: $17.99
Scholastic Inc (Oct 01, 2019)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 9781338356373Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
List Price: $17.99
Sourcebooks Fire (Aug 06, 2019)
Young Adult, Fiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN: 9781492678892Publisher: Sourcebooks
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Hot Comb
List Price: $21.95
Drawn and Quarterly (Jun 18, 2019)
Young Adult, Fiction, Paperback, 184 pages
ISBN: 9781770463486Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
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