NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award LogoThe 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

You my print a list of all the award winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.


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

List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
by Cyntoia Brown-Long

List Price: $26.00
Atria Books (Oct 15, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
by Valerie Jarrett

List Price: $30.00
Viking Books (Apr 02, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Winner - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
by Barry Wittenstein, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

List Price: $18.99
Neal Porter Books (Aug 27, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

Winner - Debut Author

I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer
by Hal Banfield

List Price: $60.00
Literary Revolutionary (Jul 21, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 100 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
by Erica Campbell

List Price: $26.00
Howard Books (Sep 24, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Winner - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
by Margaret Busby

List Price: $32.99
Amistad (May 07, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 1040 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Out of Darkness, Shining Light
by Petina Gappah

List Price: $27.00
Scribner (Sep 10, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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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

List Price: $14.99
Tiny Press (May 15, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 108 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
by Erica Campbell

List Price: $26.00
Howard Books (Sep 24, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Letters to the Finishers (who struggle to finish)
by Candace E. Wilkins

List Price: $13.99
NewSeason Books (Jun 01, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 194 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
by Jose Andres and Matt Goulding

List Price: $39.99
Anthony Bourdain/Ecco (May 21, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous
by Farah Merhi

List Price: $35.00
Tiller Press (Oct 22, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young

List Price: $27.99
Ecco (Mar 26, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

List Price: $30.00
Penguin Press (Apr 02, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry

List Price: $18.00
Beacon Press (Sep 17, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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Winner - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

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

List Price: $25.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (Jan 15, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 192 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

Winner - Youth/Teens

Around Harvard Square
by Christopher John Farley

List Price: $14.95
Black Sheep (Apr 01, 2019)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens

The Forgotten Girl
by India Hill Brown

List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Nov 05, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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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

List Price: $17.99
Scholastic Inc (Oct 01, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens