NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
The 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 may 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: $26.00Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
My Name Is Prince
by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
List Price: $26.00Amistad (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
by Cyntoia Brown-Long
List Price: $26.00Atria Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The Beautiful Ones
by Prince Rogers Nelson
List Price: $26.00Spiegel & Grau (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
by Valerie Jarrett
List Price: $26.00Viking Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Winner - Children
Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2020
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2020 Children’s Africana Book Award Winner or Honoree
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Ruby Finds a Worry
by Tom Percival
List Price: $26.00Bloomsbury Publishing (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Juvenile Fiction
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Kokila (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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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
List Price: $26.00Neal Porter Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, Illustrated by Brittany Jackson
List Price: $26.00Aladdin Paperbacks (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer
by Hal Banfield
List Price: $26.00Literary Revolutionary (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
by Erica Campbell
List Price: $26.00Howard Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
List Price: $26.00G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Farm
by Joanne Ramos
List Price: $26.00Random House (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Fiction
The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
List Price: $26.00Counterpoint (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
List Price: $26.00One World (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
by Margaret Busby
List Price: $26.00Amistad (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
List Price: $26.00Riverhead Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
by Petina Gappah
List Price: $26.00Scribner Book Company (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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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: $26.00Tiny Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty
by Erica Campbell
List Price: $26.00Howard Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Letters to the Finishers (who struggle to finish)
by Candace E. Wilkins
List Price: $26.00NewSeason Books (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
by Jose Andres and Matt Goulding
List Price: $26.00Anthony Bourdain/Ecco (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous
by Farah Merhi
List Price: $26.00Tiller Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
List Price: $26.00Ecco (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Yellow House: A Memoir
by Sarah M. Broom
List Price: $26.00Grove Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
List Price: $26.00Penguin Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry
List Price: $26.00Beacon Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Poetry
Felon: Poems
by Reginald Dwayne Betts
List Price: $26.00W. W. Norton & Company (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
The Tradition
by Jericho Brown
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Poetry
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Poetry
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Copper Canyon Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Honeyfish
by Lauren K. Alleyne
List Price: $26.00New Issues Poetry & Prose (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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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
List Price: $26.00Bloomsbury Publishing (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Mistress
by Chet’la Sebree
List Price: $26.00New Issues Poetry & Prose (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Around Harvard Square
by Christopher John Farley
List Price: $26.00Black Sheep (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
List Price: $26.00Sourcebooks Fire (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
The Forgotten Girl
by India Hill Brown
List Price: $26.00Scholastic Press (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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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: $26.00Scholastic Inc (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Hot Comb
by Ebony Flowers
List Price: $26.00Drawn and Quarterly (Jun 11, 2019)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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