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
40 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2023
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
List Price: $28.99
Amistad (Aug 02, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780063079656Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
List Price: $32.50
Crown Publishing Group (Nov 15, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9780593237465Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
List Price: $28.99
Crown Publishing Group (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780593240373Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected
List Price: $28.00
Ballantine Books (Sep 13, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780593359419Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story
List Price: $28.00
Penguin Press (Jun 14, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780593491546Publisher: Penguin Random House
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)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9781984894366Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Children
The Year We Learned to Fly
by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López
List Price: $18.99
Nancy Paulsen Books (Jan 04, 2022)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780399545535Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Children
Stacey’s Remarkable Books
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas
List Price: $19.99
Balzer + Bray (Dec 13, 2022)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780063271852Publisher: HarperCollins
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)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9780063021891Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Children
Black Gold
by Laura Obuobi, Illustrated by London Ladd
List Price: $18.99
HarperCollins (Oct 11, 2022)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN: 9780063015760Publisher: HarperCollins
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)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780593240427Publisher: Penguin Random House
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)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780593239735Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
What the Fireflies Knew
by Kai Harris
List Price: $26.00
Tiny Reparations Books (Feb 01, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780593185346Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Debut Author
America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir
List Price: $26.99
Harper (Sep 06, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780063073357Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Debut Author
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
List Price: $39.99
Amistad (Jul 19, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
ISBN: 9780062913234Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Fiction
Take My Hand
List Price: $27.00
Berkley Books (Apr 12, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
ISBN: 9780593337691Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Fiction
Light Skin Gone to Waste
List Price: $22.95
University of Georgia Press (Oct 15, 2022)
Fiction, Paperback
ISBN: 9780820363066Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Nominee – Fiction
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
List Price: $27.99
Tordotcom (Nov 15, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 528 pages
ISBN: 9781250833006Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Nominee – Fiction
The Keeper
by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss
List Price: $24.99
Harry N. Abrams (Sep 27, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 9781419751554Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Nominee – Fiction
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
List Price: $27.00
Atria Books (May 24, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781982188702Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Instructional
Eat Plants, B*tch
by Pinky Cole
List Price: $28.99
Gallery Books/13A (Nov 15, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781982178314Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781982176556Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Nominee – Instructional
The 5 Principles: A Revolutionary Path to Health, Inner Wealth, and Knowledge of Self
List Price: $29.00
Balance (Oct 18, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781538708088Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Instructional
Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self
by Thema Bryant
List Price: $26.00
TarcherPerigee (Mar 15, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780593418314Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Instructional
Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations
List Price: $30.00
William Morrow (Oct 04, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 9780063080324Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Nonfiction
Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
List Price: $28.99
HarperOne (Apr 26, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780063037328Publisher: HarperCollins
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)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780358651895Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nominee – Nonfiction
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
List Price: $30.00
Doubleday (Jun 14, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780385544887Publisher: Penguin Random House
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)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780674244269Publisher: Harvard University Press
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)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
ISBN: 9781640095021Publisher: Counterpoint
Nominee – Poetry
Muse Found in a Colonized Body
List Price: $17.95
Four Way Books (Sep 15, 2022)
Poetry, Paperback, 108 pages
ISBN: 9781954245327Publisher: Four Way Books
Nominee – Poetry
Concentrate: Poems
List Price: $17.00
Graywolf Press (Nov 01, 2022)
Poetry, Paperback, 96 pages
ISBN: 9781644452103Publisher: Graywolf Press
Nominee – Poetry
Bluest Nude: Poems
by Ama Codjoe
List Price: $16.00
Milkweed Editions (Sep 13, 2022)
Poetry, Paperback, 120 pages
ISBN: 9781571315427Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Nominee – Poetry
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
List Price: $35.00
Knopf Publishing Group (Dec 06, 2022)
Poetry, Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN: 9781524732585Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Poetry
Best Barbarian: Poems
by Roger Reeves
List Price: $26.95
W. W. Norton & Company (Mar 22, 2022)
Poetry, Hardcover, 120 pages
ISBN: 9780393609332Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by Elizabeth Acevedo, Illustrated by Andrea Pippins
List Price: $16.99
Quill Tree Books (May 03, 2022)
Young Adult, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 48 pages
ISBN: 9780062931948Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir
by Liz Montague
List Price: $24.99
Random House Studio (Oct 18, 2022)
Young Adult, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 9780593307816Publisher: Penguin Random House
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Cookies & Milk
by Shawn Amos
List Price: $16.99
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (May 24, 2022)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780759556775Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
List Price: $19.99
Feiwel & Friends (Sep 27, 2022)
Young Adult, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN: 9781250240378Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’)
by Layla Saad
List Price: $17.99
Sourcebooks Explore (Feb 01, 2022)
Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781728259086Publisher: Sourcebooks
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