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

Click for a larger image of More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

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

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My Name Is Prince
by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas

List Price: $90.00
Amistad (Nov 19, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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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

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The Beautiful Ones
by Prince Rogers Nelson

List Price: $30.00
Spiegel & Grau (Oct 29, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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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

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Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison

List Price: $17.99
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Oct 15, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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Ruby Finds a Worry
by Tom Percival

List Price: $17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (Sep 03, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison

List Price: $17.99
Kokila (May 14, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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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

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Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, Illustrated by Brittany Jackson

List Price: $17.99
Aladdin Paperbacks (Oct 15, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author

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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

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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

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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid

List Price: $26.00
G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Dec 31, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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The Farm
by Joanne Ramos

List Price: $27.00
Random House (May 07, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Winner - Fiction

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The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

List Price: $25.00
Counterpoint (Nov 05, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

List Price: $28.00
One World (Sep 24, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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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

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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson

List Price: $26.00
Riverhead Books (Sep 17, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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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

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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

Click for a larger image of More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty

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

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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

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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

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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

Click for a larger image of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

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

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The Yellow House: A Memoir
by Sarah M. Broom

List Price: $26.00
Grove Press (Aug 13, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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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

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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

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Felon: Poems
by Reginald Dwayne Betts

List Price: $26.95
W. W. Norton & Company (Oct 15, 2019)
Poetry, Hardcover, 112 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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The Tradition
by Jericho Brown

List Price: $17.00
Copper Canyon Press (Apr 02, 2019)
Poetry, Paperback, 110 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Honeyfish
by Lauren K. Alleyne

List Price: $16.00
New Issues Poetry & Prose (Apr 15, 2019)
Poetry, Paperback, 57 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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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

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Mistress
by Chet’la Sebree

List Price: $16.00
New Issues Poetry & Prose (Oct 15, 2019)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens

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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

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I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones

List Price: $17.99
Sourcebooks Fire (Aug 06, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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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

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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

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Hot Comb
by Ebony Flowers

List Price: $21.95
Drawn and Quarterly (Jun 18, 2019)
Fiction, Paperback, 184 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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