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.

39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2015

Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Handbook For An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata And My Crazy Mother, And Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair)
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Stand Up Straight and Sing!
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.
Winner – Children
Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After
Nominee – Children
Little Melba And Her Big Trombone
Nominee – Children
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X
Nominee – Children
Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America
Nominee – Children
Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer
Winner – Debut Author
Forty Acres: A Novel
Nominee – Debut Author
Queen Sugar
Nominee – Debut Author
Time of the Locust: A Novel

Time of the Locust: A Novel

by Morowa Yejide

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Atria Books (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781476731353Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Debut Author
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
Nominee – Debut Author
Remedy for a Broken Angel

Remedy for a Broken Angel

by Toni Ann Johnson

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Nortia Press (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
ISBN: 9781940503028Publisher: Nortia Media Ltd
Winner – Fiction
A Wanted Woman
Nominee – Fiction
Momma: Gone
Nominee – Fiction
The Prodigal Son (Reverend Curtis Black #11)
Nominee – Fiction
Another Womans Man (A Gibbons Gold Digger Novel)
Nominee – Fiction
An Untamed State
Winner – Instructional
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
Nominee – Instructional
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
Nominee – Instructional
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
Nominee – Instructional
101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education
Winner – Nonfiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Nominee – Nonfiction
Who We Be: The Colorization of America
Nominee – Nonfiction
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Nominee – Nonfiction
Bad Feminist: Essays
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Winner – Poetry
Citizen: An American Lyric
Nominee – Poetry
Digest (Stahlecker Selections)
Nominee – Poetry
The New Testament

The New Testament

by Jericho Brown

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Copper Canyon Press (Sep 16, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 110 pages
ISBN: 9781556594571Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Nominee – Poetry
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters
Nominee – Poetry
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
Winner – Youth/Teens
Brown Girl Dreaming
Nominee – Youth/Teens