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
9 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2022
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
Will
by Will Smith
List Price: $30.00Penguin Press (Nov 09, 2002)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Winner - Children
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas
1-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Balzer + Bray (Dec 28, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2022 BCALA Literary Award
Amistad (Jan 26, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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Winner - Fiction
Long Division
by Kiese Laymon
List Price: $24.00Scribner (Jun 01, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Winner - Instructional
Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
by Tabitha Brown
List Price: $27.99William Morrow (Sep 28, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
14-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2022
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
One World (Nov 16, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Perfect Black
by Crystal Wilkinson
List Price: $29.95University Press of Kentucky (Aug 03, 2021)
Poetry, Hardcover, 112 pages
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Finalist - Poetry
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
by Rita Dove
List Price: $15.95W. W. Norton & Company (Mar 28, 2023)
Poetry, Paperback, 128 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Ace of Spades
by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
List Price: $18.99Feiwel & Friends (Jun 01, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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