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 my print a list of all the award winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.

9 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2022

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

Will
by Will Smith

An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

List Price: $30.00
Penguin Press (Nov 09, 2002)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Winner - Children

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Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas

1-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction

List Price: $19.99
Balzer + Bray (Dec 28, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author

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Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson

List Price: $28.99
Amistad (Jan 26, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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Winner - Fiction

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Long Division
by Kiese Laymon

An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

List Price: $24.00
Scribner (Jun 01, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Winner - Instructional

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Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
by Tabitha Brown

An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

List Price: $27.99
William Morrow (Sep 28, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones

14-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

List Price: $38.00
One World (Nov 16, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Winner - Poetry

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Perfect Black
by Crystal Wilkinson

An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

List Price: $29.95
University Press of Kentucky (Aug 03, 2021)
Poetry, Hardcover, 112 pages
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Finalist - Poetry

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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
by Rita Dove

An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

List Price: $15.95
W. W. Norton & Company (Mar 28, 2023)
Poetry, Paperback, 128 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens

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Ace of Spades
by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

List Price: $18.99
Feiwel & Friends (Jun 01, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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