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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45 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2024

Winner – Biography/Autobiography

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

by Joy-Ann Reid

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

7-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780063068797Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Biography/Autobiography

Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good

by Tasha Cobbs Leonard

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593600870Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Biography/Autobiography

Lovely One: A Memoir

by Ketanji Brown Jackson

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

2-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780593729908Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Biography/Autobiography

By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words

by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781637633007Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Biography/Autobiography

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

by Whoopi Goldberg

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

7-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Children

You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book

by Taraji P. Henson, Illustrated by Paul Kellam

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

7-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction

ISBN: 9780310160595Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Children

Cicely Tyson

by Renée Watson, Illustrated by Sherry Shine

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780063219991Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Children

My Hair Is a Book

by Maisha Oso, Illustrated by London Ladd

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780063249103Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Children

All I Need to Be

by Rachel Ricketts

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781534478329Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Children

Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair

by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Ekua Holmes

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780763697945Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Debut Author

Grown Women

by Sarai Johnson

List Price: $30.00

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

1-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780063294431Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Debut Author

Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture

by Shirley Neal

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780063080836Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Debut Author

Masquerade

by O.O. Sangoyomi

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781250904317Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Debut Author

Swift River

by Essie Chambers

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

9-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9781668027912Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Debut Author

A Kind of Madness

by Uche Okonkwo

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781959030386Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Fiction

One of Us Knows: A Thriller

by Alyssa Cole

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780063114951Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Fiction

Grown Women

by Sarai Johnson

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

1-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780063294431Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Fiction

What You Leave Behind

by Wanda M. Morris

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780063322219Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Fiction

Neighbors and Other Stories

by Diane Oliver

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

3-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780802161314Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Fiction

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

by Tia Williams

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

13-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9781538726709Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Graphic Novel

Punk Rock Karaoke

by Bianca Xunise

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593464502Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Graphic Novel

Gamerville

by Johnnie Christmas

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780063056824Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Graphic Novel

Ghost Roast

by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs, Illustrated by Emily Cannon

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780358141815Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Graphic Novel

Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined

by David F. Walker

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593836118Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Graphic Novel

Black Defender: The Awakening

by David Washington

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Instructional

Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair

by Tomesha Faxio

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593579718Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Instructional

I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free

by Tabitha Brown

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

5-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780063286115Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Instructional

Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us

by Chante Griffin

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593445594Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Instructional

Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight

by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593796795Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Instructional

Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience

by Rebecca Moore

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780711294219Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Nonfiction

Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest

by Fawn Weaver

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

14-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9781595911346Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Nonfiction

The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

by Larry Tye

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

3-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780358380436Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Nonfiction

The 1619 Project a Visual Experience

by Nikole Hannah-Jones

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

3-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780593232255Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Nonfiction

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

by Noliwe Rooks

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593492420Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Nonfiction

Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World

by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Steven Conn, Daniela Edmeier, and Damarius Johnson

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781419769559Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Poetry

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

by Kwame Alexander

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

2-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry

ISBN: 9780316417525Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Poetry

Load in Nine Times: Poems

by Frank X. Walker

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781324094937Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Poetry

Bluff: Poems

by Danez Smith

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

4-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry

ISBN: 9781644452981Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Poetry

Song of My Softening

by Omotara James

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9781948579247Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Poetry

Good Dress

by Brittany Rogers

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

2-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry

ISBN: 9781959030836Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winner – Youth/Teens

Brushed Between Cultures

by Samarra St. Hilaire

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Youth/Teens

Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel

by Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

1-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction

ISBN: 9780063069640Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Youth/Teens

Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi, Illustrated by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

2-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN: 9780063098336Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Youth/Teens

American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780593323984Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nominee – Youth/Teens

Black Star

by Kwame Alexander

List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Now Only $45.99!

Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)

Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages

ISBN: 9780316442596Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt