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
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)
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780525561583Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
My Name Is Prince
by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780062939234Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781982141103Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
The Beautiful Ones
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780399589652Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780525558132Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Children
Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781534425361Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Children
Ruby Finds a Worry
by Tom Percival
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781547602377Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Children
Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
9-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780525553366Publisher: Penguin Random House
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: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780823443314Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Children
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, Illustrated by Brittany Jackson
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781534451865Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Debut Author
I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer
by Hal Banfield
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781950279104Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781501188664Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780525541905Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
The Farm
by Joanne Ramos
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781984853752Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Fiction
The Revisioners
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781640092587Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
The Water Dancer
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
2-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9780399590597Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780062912985Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
Red at the Bone
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780525535270Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781982110338Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Instructional
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781642500325Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781501188664Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Letters to the Finishers (who struggle to finish)
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781733647212Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
by Jose Andres and Matt Goulding
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780062668387Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous
by Farah Merhi
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781982131241Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780062684301Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Yellow House: A Memoir
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780802125088Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780525559535Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Nonfiction
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780807076552Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Poetry
Felon: Poems
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780393652147Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Poetry
The Tradition
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
2-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry
ISBN: 9781556594861Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Poetry
Honeyfish
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781936970599Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Poetry
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781635572612Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Poetry
Mistress
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781936970629Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Youth/Teens
Around Harvard Square
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781617757143Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781492678892Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
The Forgotten Girl
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781338317244Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk
by Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781338356373Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Hot Comb
List Price: $26.00
Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781770463486Publisher: Penguin Random House