NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
In 2023, the NAACP celebrates the 54th anniversary of Image Awards. There are 5 titles nominated in eight literature categories; Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction,
Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens
38 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2020
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
by Elaine Welteroth
Publication Date: Jun 11, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780525561583
Imprint: Viking Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
My Name Is Prince
by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
Publication Date: Nov 19, 2019
List Price: $90.00
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062939234
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The Beautiful Ones
by Prince Rogers Nelson
Publication Date: Oct 29, 2019
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780399589652
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
by Valerie Jarrett
Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780525558132
Imprint: Viking Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
by Cyntoia Brown-Long
Publication Date: Oct 15, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781982141103
Imprint: Atria Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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Winner - Children
Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2020
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2020 Children’s Africana Book Award Winner or Honoree
Publication Date: Oct 15, 2019
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9781534425361
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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Nominee - Children
Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Publication Date: May 14, 2019
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780525553366
Imprint: Kokila
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Children
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
by Barry Wittenstein, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Publication Date: Aug 27, 2019
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780823443314
Imprint: Neal Porter Books
Publisher: Holiday House
Parent Company: Holiday House, Inc.
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Nominee - Children
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, Illustrated by Brittany Jackson
Publication Date: Oct 15, 2019
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9781534451865
Imprint: Aladdin Paperbacks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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Nominee - Children
Ruby Finds a Worry
by Tom Percival
Publication Date: Sep 03, 2019
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9781547602377
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Parent Company: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Winner - Debut Author
I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer
by Hal Banfield
Publication Date: Jul 21, 2019
List Price: $60.00
Format: Hardcover, 100 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781950279104
Imprint: Literary Revolutionary
Publisher: Literary Revolutionary
Parent Company: Literary Revolutionary
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Nominee - Debut Author
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
Publication Date: Dec 31, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525541905
Imprint: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Debut Author
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
by Erica Campbell
Publication Date: Sep 24, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781501188664
Imprint: Howard Books
Publisher: Howard Books
Parent Company: Howard Books
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Farm
by Joanne Ramos
Publication Date: May 07, 2019
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781984853752
Imprint: Random House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Fiction
The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Publication Date: Nov 05, 2019
List Price: $25.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781640092587
Imprint: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Parent Company: Counterpoint
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Nominee - Fiction
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
by Margaret Busby
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: May 07, 2019
List Price: $32.99
Format: Hardcover, 1040 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062912985
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Fiction
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- A 2019 Oprah Book Club Selection
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Sep 24, 2019
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780399590597
Imprint: One World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Fiction
Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Sep 17, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525535270
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Fiction
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
by Petina Gappah
Publication Date: Sep 10, 2019
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781982110338
Imprint: Scribner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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Winner - Instructional
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
by Karen Arrington
Publication Date: May 15, 2019
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 108 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781642500325
Imprint: Tiny Press
Publisher: Tiny Press
Parent Company: Tiny Press
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Nominee - Instructional
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
by Jose Andres and Matt Goulding
Publication Date: May 21, 2019
List Price: $39.99
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062668387
Imprint: Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Instructional
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
by Erica Campbell
Publication Date: Sep 24, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781501188664
Imprint: Howard Books
Publisher: Howard Books
Parent Company: Howard Books
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Nominee - Instructional
Letters to the Finishers (who struggle to finish)
by Candace E. Wilkins
Publication Date: Jun 01, 2019
List Price: $13.99
Format: Paperback, 194 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781733647212
Imprint: NewSeason Books
Publisher: NewSeason Books and Media
Parent Company: NewSeason Books and Media
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Nominee - Instructional
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous
by Farah Merhi
Publication Date: Oct 22, 2019
List Price: $35.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781982131241
Imprint: Tiller Press
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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Nominee - Nonfiction
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
Publication Date: Mar 26, 2019
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062684301
Imprint: Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780525559535
Imprint: Penguin Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Yellow House: A Memoir
by Sarah M. Broom
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Aug 13, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780802125088
Imprint: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry
Publication Date: Sep 17, 2019
List Price: $18.00
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780807076552
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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Winner - Poetry
Felon: Poems
by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publication Date: Oct 15, 2019
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780393652147
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Nominee - Poetry
The Tradition
by Jericho Brown
Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 110 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781556594861
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Parent Company: Copper Canyon Press
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Nominee - Poetry
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
by Damaris B. Hill
Publication Date: Jan 15, 2019
List Price: $25.00
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781635572612
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Parent Company: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nominee - Poetry
Honeyfish
by Lauren K. Alleyne
Publication Date: Apr 15, 2019
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 57 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781936970599
Imprint: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Parent Company: Western Michigan University
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Nominee - Poetry
Mistress
by Chet’la Sebree
Publication Date: Oct 15, 2019
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781936970629
Imprint: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Parent Company: Western Michigan University
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Around Harvard Square
by Christopher John Farley
Publication Date: Apr 01, 2019
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 280 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9781617757143
Imprint: Black Sheep
Publisher: Akashic Books
Parent Company: Akashic Books
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
The Forgotten Girl
by India Hill Brown
Publication Date: Nov 05, 2019
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9781338317244
Imprint: Scholastic Press
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Parent Company: Scholastic Inc.
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk
by Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9781338356373
Imprint: Scholastic Inc
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Parent Company: Scholastic Inc.
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
Publication Date: Aug 06, 2019
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9781492678892
Imprint: Sourcebooks Fire
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Parent Company: Sourcebooks
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Hot Comb
by Ebony Flowers
Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
List Price: $21.95
Format: Paperback, 184 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9781770463486
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Parent Company: Drawn and Quarterly