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
9 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2022
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Will
by Will Smith
List Price: $30.00
Penguin Press (Nov 09, 2002)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
ISBN: 9781984877925Publisher: Penguin Random House
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Winner – Children
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas
List Price: $19.99
Balzer + Bray (Dec 28, 2021)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780063209473Publisher: HarperCollins
Winner – Debut Author
Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson
List Price: $28.99
Amistad (Jan 26, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780062931061Publisher: HarperCollins
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Winner – Fiction
Long Division
by Kiese Laymon
List Price: $24.00
Scribner Book Company (Jun 01, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781982177362Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Winner – Instructional
Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
List Price: $27.99
William Morrow (Sep 28, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780063080287Publisher: HarperCollins
Winner – Nonfiction
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
List Price: $38.00
One World (Nov 16, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
ISBN: 9780593230572Publisher: Penguin Random House
Winner – Poetry
Perfect Black
List Price: $29.95
University Press of Kentucky (Aug 03, 2021)
Poetry, Hardcover, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780813151151Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Finalist – Poetry
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
by Rita Dove
List Price: $15.95
W. W. Norton & Company (Mar 28, 2023)
Poetry, Paperback, 128 pages
ISBN: 9781324050438Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Winner – Youth/Teens
Ace of Spades
List Price: $18.99
Feiwel & Friends (Jun 01, 2021)
Young Adult, Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
ISBN: 9781250800817Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
