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
Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel
9 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2017
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
1-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9780399588174Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Children
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9781620141564Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Debut Author
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
1-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9780399588174Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Fiction
The Book of Harlan
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9781617754456Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Instructional
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
by Daymond John
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9781101903599Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Nonfiction
Hidden Figures
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9780062363596Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Poetry
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
by Rita Dove
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9780393285949Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Poetry
Thief in the Interior
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9781938584176Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Youth/Teens
As Brave As You
List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Nov 15, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- Children’s Africana Book Award Winner/Honor 2019
ISBN: 9781481415903Publisher: Penguin Random House