NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award LogoThe 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.


40 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2023

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story
by Raphael G. Warnock

List Price: $28.00

Penguin Press (Jun 14, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected
by Cynt Marshall

List Price: $28.00

Ballantine Books (Sep 13, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Black Gold
by Laura Obuobi, Illustrated by London Ladd

List Price: $18.99

HarperCollins (Oct 11, 2022)
Hardcover, 40 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

Nominee - Children

Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas
by Jeanne Walker Harvey, Illustrated by Loveis Wise

List Price: $18.99

HarperCollins (Feb 22, 2022)
Hardcover, 40 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Illustrated by Daniel Minter

List Price: $18.99

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers (Feb 15, 2022)
Hardcover, 40 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

Nominee - Debut Author

Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
by George McCalman

List Price: $39.99

Amistad (Jul 19, 2022)
Hardcover, 432 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Debut Author

America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir
by Boyah J. Farah

List Price: $26.99

Harper (Sep 06, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins

List Price: $26.00

Convergent Books (Apr 26, 2022)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Debut Author

Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
by Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks

List Price: $26.00

Convergent Books (Sep 13, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
by Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight

List Price: $27.99

Tordotcom (Nov 15, 2022)
Hardcover, 528 pages
Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Instructional

Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations
by Tabitha Brown

List Price: $30.00

William Morrow (Oct 04, 2022)
Hardcover, 208 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Instructional

Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self
by Thema Bryant

List Price: $26.00

TarcherPerigee (Mar 15, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Instructional

The 5 Principles: A Revolutionary Path to Health, Inner Wealth, and Knowledge of Self
by Khnum “Stic” Ibomu

List Price: $29.00

Balance (Oct 18, 2022)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Instructional

Eat Plants, B*tch
by Pinky Cole

List Price: $28.99

Gallery Books/13A (Nov 15, 2022)
Hardcover, 240 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Instructional

Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

List Price: $27.99

Gallery Books (Feb 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by Cody Keenan

List Price: $29.99

Mariner Books (Oct 04, 2022)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran

List Price: $29.95

Belknap Press (Mar 22, 2022)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by RJ Young

List Price: $27.00

Counterpoint (Nov 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Nonfiction

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Bluest Nude: Poems
by Ama Codjoe

List Price: $16.00

Milkweed Editions (Sep 13, 2022)
Paperback, 120 pages
Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Muse Found in a Colonized Body
by Yesenia Montilla

List Price: $17.95

Four Way Books (Sep 15, 2022)
Paperback, 108 pages
Poetry

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by Elizabeth Acevedo, Illustrated by Andrea Pippins

List Price: $16.99

Quill Tree Books (May 03, 2022)
Hardcover, 48 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir
by Liz Montague

List Price: $24.99

Random House Studio (Oct 18, 2022)
Hardcover, 176 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
by Ashley Woodfolk

List Price: $19.99

Feiwel & Friends (Sep 27, 2022)
Hardcover, 272 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’)
by Layla Saad

List Price: $17.99

Sourcebooks Explore (Feb 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade