NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature: Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens
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
7-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2025 BCALA Literary Award
Mariner Books (Feb 06, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good
by Tasha Cobbs Leonard
List Price: $26.00WaterBrook Press (May 07, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Lovely One: A Memoir
by Ketanji Brown Jackson
2-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Random House (Sep 03, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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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: $26.00Forefront Books (Apr 23, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
by Whoopi Goldberg
7-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- Best Audiobook 2025: Narration by the Author
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Blackstone Publishing (May 08, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 258 pages
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Winner - Children
You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book
by Taraji P. Henson, Illustrated by Paul Kellam
7-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction
List Price: $19.99Zonderkidz (Jun 18, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Cicely Tyson
by Renée Watson, Illustrated by Sherry Shine
List Price: $19.99Amistad Books for Young Readers (Nov 05, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
Target Age Group: Early Reader
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Nominee - Children
My Hair Is a Book
by Maisha Oso, Illustrated by London Ladd
List Price: $19.99HarperCollins (Sep 17, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Ekua Holmes
List Price: $18.99Candlewick Press (MA) (Sep 03, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
All I Need to Be
by Rachel Ricketts
List Price: $18.99Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Apr 02, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
Grown Women
by Sarai Johnson
1-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $30.00Harper (Jul 09, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Masquerade
by O.O. Sangoyomi
List Price: $18.99Forge (Jul 29, 2025)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture
by Shirley Neal
List Price: Amistad (Nov 26, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Swift River
by Essie Chambers
9-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2025 BCALA Literary Award
Simon & Schuster (Jun 04, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us
by Chante Griffin
List Price: $17.00PRH Christian Publishing (Jun 04, 2024)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Winner - Fiction
One of Us Knows: A Thriller
by Alyssa Cole
List Price: $19.99William Morrow & Company (Apr 16, 2024)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
Grown Women
by Sarai Johnson
1-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $30.00Harper (Jul 09, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
What You Leave Behind
by Wanda M. Morris
List Price: $18.99William Morrow & Company (Jun 18, 2024)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
Neighbors and Other Stories
by Diane Oliver
3-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Grove Press (Feb 13, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by Tia Williams
13-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Grand Central Publishing (Feb 06, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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Winner - Graphic Novel
Punk Rock Karaoke
by Bianca Xunise
List Price: $24.99Viking Books for Young Readers (Apr 23, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Graphic Novel
Gamerville
by Johnnie Christmas
List Price: $24.99HarperAlley (Jul 16, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Graphic Novel
Ghost Roast
by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs, Illustrated by Emily Cannon
List Price: $26.99Versify (Jan 02, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Graphic Novel
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
by David F. Walker
List Price: $35.00Ten Speed Graphic (Oct 15, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Graphic Novel
Black Defender: The Awakening
by Dr. David Washington
List Price: $21.99Washington & Company (May 24, 2024)
Fiction, Paperback, 108 pages
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Winner - Instructional
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair
by Tomesha Faxio
List Price: $30.00Clarkson Potter (Apr 02, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free
by Tabitha Brown
5-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $29.99William Morrow & Company (Jan 30, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
A Kind of Madness
by Uche Okonkwo
List Price: $16.95Tin House Books (Apr 16, 2024)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight
by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
List Price: $18.00Ink & Willow (Oct 29, 2024)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience
by Rebecca Moore
List Price: $20.00Leaping Hare Press (Jul 09, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 144 pages
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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
11-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2025 BCALA Literary Award
Melcher Media (Jun 18, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 376 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
by Larry Tye
3-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $32.50Mariner Books (May 07, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
3-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $65.00Clarkson Potter (Oct 22, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by Noliwe Rooks
List Price: $28.00Penguin Press (Jul 23, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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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: $40.00Abrams Books (Nov 12, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Winner - Poetry
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
by Kwame Alexander
2-time National Bestseller, Poetry
List Price: $35.00Little, Brown and Company (Jan 30, 2024)
Poetry, Hardcover, 448 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Load in Nine Times: Poems
by Frank X. Walker
List Price: $26.99Liveright Publishing Corporation (Oct 01, 2024)
Poetry, Hardcover, 144 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Bluff: Poems
by Danez Smith
2-time National Bestseller, Poetry
List Price: $18.00Graywolf Press (Aug 20, 2024)
Poetry, Paperback, 160 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Song of My Softening
by Omotara James
List Price: $22.95Alice James Books (Feb 13, 2024)
Poetry, Paperback, 160 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Good Dress
by Brittany Rogers
2-time National Bestseller, Poetry
List Price: $16.95Tin House Books (Oct 15, 2024)
Poetry, Paperback, 104 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Brushed Between Cultures
by Samarra St. Hilaire
List Price: $13.99Samarra St. Hilaire (Jul 18, 2024)
Fiction, Paperback, 254 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel
by Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds
1-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction
List Price: $19.99Katherine Tegen Books (Sep 03, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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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
2-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Nonfiction
List Price: $18.99Amistad Books for Young Readers (Jan 23, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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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: $19.99G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers (Jan 16, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Black Star
by Kwame Alexander
- Best Audiobook 2025: Best Middle Grade
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Sep 24, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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