NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

Scenes from My Life: A Memoir

by Michael K. Williams

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

by Jenifer Lewis

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected

by Cynt Marshall

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

by Michelle Obama

7-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

• A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story

by Raphael G. Warnock

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Stacey’s Remarkable Books

by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Black Gold

by Laura Obuobi, Illustrated by London Ladd

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas

by Jeanne Walker Harvey, Illustrated by Loveis Wise

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

The Year We Learned to Fly

by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López

3-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

by George McCalman

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir

by Boyah J. Farah

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

What the Fireflies Knew

by Kai Harris

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation

by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

by Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Light Skin Gone to Waste

by Toni Ann Johnson

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

by Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

The Keeper

by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Take My Hand

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

by Tabitha Brown

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

by Thema Bryant

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

The 5 Principles: A Revolutionary Path to Health, Inner Wealth, and Knowledge of Self

by Khnum “Stic” Ibomu

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Eat Plants, B*tch

by Pinky Cole

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Finding Me: A Memoir

by Viola Davis

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

by Cody Keenan

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

by Linda Villarosa

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

by RJ Young

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Best Barbarian: Poems

by Roger Reeves

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

by Robin Coste Lewis

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Bluest Nude: Poems

by Ama Codjoe

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Concentrate: Poems

by Courtney Faye Taylor

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Muse Found in a Colonized Body

by Yesenia Montilla

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Inheritance: A Visual Poem

by Elizabeth Acevedo, Illustrated by Andrea Pippins

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir

by Liz Montague

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Cookies & Milk

by Shawn Amos

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

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

by Ashley Woodfolk

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’)

by Layla Saad

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book