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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Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel
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: $29.95
University of Georgia Press (Feb 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780820346632Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
List Price: $16.99
Touchstone (Dec 16, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781476737997Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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: $26.00
Knopf (Feb 25, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780307952394Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Stand Up Straight and Sing!
List Price: $27.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 06, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780544003408Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.
by Marion Barry Jr. and Omar Tyree
List Price: $25.00
Strebor Books (Jun 17, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781593095055Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Winner – Children
Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After
List Price: $13.99
Aladdin (Sep 30, 2014)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781481421843Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Children
Little Melba And Her Big Trombone
by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Frank Morrison
List Price: $20.95
Lee & Low Books (Aug 20, 2014)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9781600608988Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Nominee – Children
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X
List Price: $19.99
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Jan 07, 2014)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
ISBN: 9781442412163Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Children
Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America
by Tonya Bolden
Abrams Books (Jan 07, 2014)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 80 pages
ISBN: 9781419708466Publisher: Abrams
Nominee – Children
Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer
by Tonya Bolden, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
List Price: $16.95
Abrams Books (Nov 04, 2014)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9781419707926Publisher: Abrams
Winner – Debut Author
Forty Acres: A Novel
Atria / 37 Ink (Jul 01, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9781476730530Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Debut Author
Queen Sugar
List Price: $27.95
Knopf (Feb 06, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780670026135Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
Time of the Locust: A Novel
List Price: $25.00
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
List Price: $14.99
Dunham Books (May 20, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN: 9781939447753Publisher: Dunham Group Inc
Nominee – Debut Author
Remedy for a Broken Angel
List Price: $17.95
Nortia Press (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
ISBN: 9781940503028Publisher: Nortia Media Ltd
Winner – Fiction
A Wanted Woman
List Price: $26.95
Knopf (Apr 15, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780525954279Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
Momma: Gone
by Nina Foxx
List Price: $12.00
Brown Girls Books (Jul 01, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 330 pages
ISBN: 9781625174499Publisher: Brown Girls Books
Nominee – Fiction
The Prodigal Son (Reverend Curtis Black #11)
List Price: $26.00
Grand Central Publishing (May 13, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781455526130Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Fiction
Another Womans Man (A Gibbons Gold Digger Novel)
by Shelly Ellis
List Price: $31.99
Thorndike Press (Aug 20, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 401 pages
ISBN: 9781410470713Publisher: Thorndike Press
Nominee – Fiction
An Untamed State
by Roxane Gay
List Price: $16.00
Grove Press (May 06, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
ISBN: 9780802122513Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Winner – Instructional
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
by Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard
List Price: $18.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jan 14, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 384 pages
ISBN: 9780812984897Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
by Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles
List Price: $14.00
Agate Bolden (Oct 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN: 9781932841909Publisher: Agate Publishing, Inc
Nominee – Instructional
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
by Bryant Terry
List Price: $27.50
Ten Speed Press (Apr 08, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781607745310Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education
List Price: $12.00
Cushcity Communications (Jan 09, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 164 pages
ISBN: 9780692360286Publisher: Cushcity Communications
Winner – Nonfiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
List Price: $28.00
One World (Oct 21, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780812994520Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
Who We Be: The Colorization of America
by Jeff Chang
List Price: $32.99
St. Martin’s Press (Oct 21, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
ISBN: 9780312571290Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Nominee – Nonfiction
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
List Price: $25.95
Beacon Press (May 06, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 9780807086148Publisher: Beacon Press
Nominee – Nonfiction
Bad Feminist: Essays
by Roxane Gay
List Price: $15.99
Amistad (Aug 05, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780062282712Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by Clay Risen
List Price: $28.00
Bloomsbury Press (Apr 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9781608198245Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Winner – Poetry
Citizen: An American Lyric
List Price: $20.00
Graywolf Press (Oct 07, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN: 9781555976903Publisher: Graywolf Press
Nominee – Poetry
Digest (Stahlecker Selections)
List Price: $15.95
Four Way Books (Oct 07, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 84 pages
ISBN: 9781935536505Publisher: Four Way Books
Nominee – Poetry
The New Testament
List Price: $17.00
Copper Canyon Press (Sep 16, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 110 pages
ISBN: 9781556594571Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Nominee – Poetry
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters
Cherry Castle Publishing (Aug 31, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 82 pages
ISBN: 9780692273272Publisher: Cherry Castle Publishing
Nominee – Poetry
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
List Price: $40.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Jan 21, 2014)
Poetry, Hardcover, 640 pages
ISBN: 9780374125615Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Winner – Youth/Teens
Brown Girl Dreaming
List Price: $18.99
Nancy Paulsen Books (Aug 28, 2014)
Middle Grade, Poetry, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780399252518Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
The Red Pencil
List Price: $17.00
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Sep 16, 2014)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780316247801Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy)
List Price: $19.99
Scholastic Press (May 27, 2014)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 544 pages
ISBN: 9780545106078Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
The Freedom Summer Murders
by Don Mitchell
List Price: $18.99
Scholastic Press (Apr 29, 2014)
Young Adult, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780545477253Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
List Price: $20.00
Holiday House (Aug 11, 2014)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 96 pages
ISBN: 9780823429219Publisher: Holiday House
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