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.
You may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.
3 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 1992
Winner - Outstanding Literary Work
Waiting To Exhale
by Terry McMillan
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
- Voted #21 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Viking Press (May 28, 1992)
Fiction, Hardcover, 409 pages
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Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel
by Alice Walker
- Voted #21 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
The New Press (May 28, 1992)
Fiction, Paperback, 409 pages
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Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work
Jazz
by Toni Morrison
- Voted #21 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Vintage Books (May 28, 1992)
Fiction, Paperback, 409 pages
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