NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
In 2023, the NAACP celebrates the 54th anniversary of Image Awards. There are 5 titles nominated in eight literature categories; Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction,
Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens
9 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2022
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
Will
by Will Smith
Publication Date: Nov 09, 2002
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781984877925
Imprint: Penguin Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Children
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas
Publication Date: Dec 28, 2021
List Price: $19.99
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9780063209473
Imprint: Balzer + Bray
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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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
Publication Date: Jan 26, 2021
List Price: $28.99
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062931061
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Winner - Fiction
Long Division
by Kiese Laymon
Publication Date: Jun 01, 2021
List Price: $24.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781982177362
Imprint: Scribner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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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
Publication Date: Sep 28, 2021
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780063080287
Imprint: William Morrow
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Winner - Nonfiction
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2022
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Nov 16, 2021
List Price: $38.00
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780593230572
Imprint: One World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Poetry
Perfect Black
by Crystal Wilkinson
Publication Date: Aug 03, 2021
List Price: $29.95
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780813151151
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Parent Company: University Press of Kentucky
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Finalist - Poetry
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
by Rita Dove
Publication Date: Mar 28, 2023
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781324050438
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Ace of Spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Publication Date: Jun 01, 2021
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9781250800817
Imprint: Feiwel & Friends
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group