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
39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2015
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine
by David Chanoff and Louis Sullivan
List Price: $29.95University of Georgia Press (Feb 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Winner - Biography/Autobiography
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
by Misty Copeland
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 3 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2015 BCALA Literary Award
Touchstone (Dec 16, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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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)
by Rosie Perez
List Price: $26.00Knopf (Feb 25, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Stand Up Straight and Sing!
by Jessye Norman
List Price: $27.00Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 06, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.
by Marion Barry Jr. and Omar Tyree
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Strebor Books (Jun 17, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Winner - Children
Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After
by Rachel Renee Russell
List Price: $13.99Aladdin (Sep 30, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
- A Top 10 Book in the “Children’s Books from the 21st Century” Category
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Jan 07, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer
by Tonya Bolden, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
List Price: $16.95Abrams Books (Nov 04, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America
by Tonya Bolden
List Price: $21.95Abrams Books (Jan 07, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 80 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children
Little Melba And Her Big Trombone
by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Frank Morrison
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2015
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Lee & Low Books (Aug 20, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
Forty Acres: A Novel
by Dwayne Alexander Smith
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2015 BCALA Literary Award
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Queen Sugar
by Natalie Baszile
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books of the 21st Century” Category
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- 3 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Knopf (Feb 06, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Time of the Locust: A Novel
by Morowa Yejide
List Price: $25.00Atria Books (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
by Darrell Miller
List Price: $14.99Dunham Books (May 20, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 176 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author
Remedy for a Broken Angel
by Toni Ann Johnson
List Price: $17.95Nortia Press (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
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Winner - Fiction
A Wanted Woman
by Eric Jerome Dickey
List Price: $26.95Knopf (Apr 15, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
An Untamed State
by Roxane Gay
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2015)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Grove Press (May 06, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
Another Womans Man (A Gibbons Gold Digger Novel)
by Shelly Ellis
List Price: $31.99Thorndike Press (Aug 20, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 401 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
The Prodigal Son (Reverend Curtis Black #11)
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
List Price: $26.00Grand Central Publishing (May 13, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
Momma: Gone
by Nina Foxx
List Price: $12.00Brown Girls Books (Jul 01, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 330 pages
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Winner - Instructional
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
by Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard
List Price: $18.00Spiegel & Grau (Jan 14, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
by Bryant Terry
List Price: $27.50Ten Speed Press (Apr 08, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
by Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles
List Price: $14.00Agate Bolden (Oct 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 160 pages
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Nominee - Instructional
101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education
by Gwen Richardson
List Price: $12.00Cushcity Communications (Jan 09, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 164 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 3 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2014
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2014
One World (Oct 21, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Bad Feminist: Essays
by Roxane Gay
List Price: $15.99Amistad (Aug 05, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Who We Be: The Colorization of America
by Jeff Chang
List Price: $32.99St. Martin’s Press (Oct 21, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
by Sheryll Cashin
List Price: $25.95Beacon Press (May 06, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by Clay Risen
List Price: $28.00Bloomsbury Press (Apr 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
16-time National Bestseller, Poetry
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Poetry
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Poetry
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- A Top 10 Book in the “Poetry Books of the 21st Century” Category
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2015)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Graywolf Press (Oct 07, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 160 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
by Derek Walcott
List Price: $40.00Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Jan 21, 2014)
Poetry, Hardcover, 640 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters
by Brian Gilmore
Cherry Castle Publishing (Aug 31, 2014)Poetry, Paperback, 82 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
The New Testament
by Jericho Brown
List Price: $17.00Copper Canyon Press (Sep 16, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 110 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Digest (Stahlecker Selections)
by Gregory Pardlo
List Price: $15.95Four Way Books (Oct 07, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 84 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
2-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Nonfiction
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Juvenile Nonfiction
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Nonfiction
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2015
- Newbery Medal Winner or Honor 2015
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Nancy Paulsen Books (Aug 28, 2014)
Poetry, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
The Red Pencil
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Illustrated by Shane W. Evans
List Price: $17.00Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Sep 16, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy)
by Deborah Wiles
List Price: $19.99Scholastic Press (May 27, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 544 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
The Freedom Summer Murders
by Don Mitchell
List Price: $18.99Scholastic Press (Apr 29, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
by Russell Freedman
List Price: $20.00Holiday House (Aug 11, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 96 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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