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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
8 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2021
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
(Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9781631491665
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9781631491665
Winner – Children
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
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Imprint: Lee & Low Books
(Aug 04, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Age Range: Picture Book
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781620143469
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Age Range: Picture Book
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781620143469
Winner – Debut Author
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
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Winner – Fiction
The Awkward Black Man
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Imprint: Grove Press
(Sep 15, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802149565
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802149565
Winner – Instructional
Vegetable Kingdom
by Bryant Terry
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Imprint: Ten Speed Press
(Feb 11, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780399581045
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780399581045
Winner – Nonfiction
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
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Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
(Nov 17, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 768 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781524763169
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 768 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781524763169
Categorized under:
- Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography / Historical
- Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
- History / United States / 21st Century
- Political Science / American Government / Executive Branch
- Political Science / American Government / General
Winner – Poetry
The Age of Phillis
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Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
(Mar 03, 2020)
Poetry, Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819579492
Poetry, Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819579492
Winner – Youth/Teens
Before the Ever After
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Imprint: Nancy Paulsen Books
(Sep 01, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
Age Range: Middle Grade
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780399545436
Fiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
Age Range: Middle Grade
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780399545436








