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
40 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2023
Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
by Michael K. Williams
List Price: $28.99Crown Publishing Group (Aug 23, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
by Jenifer Lewis
List Price: $28.99Amistad (Aug 02, 2022)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Nonfiction
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: $28.00Penguin Press (Jun 14, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by Michelle Obama
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Crown Publishing Group (Nov 15, 2022)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected
by Cynt Marshall
List Price: $28.00Ballantine Books (Sep 13, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Children
Stacey’s Remarkable Books
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Balzer + Bray (Dec 13, 2022)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
Nominee - Children
Black Gold
by Laura Obuobi, Illustrated by London Ladd
List Price: $18.99HarperCollins (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: $18.99HarperCollins (Feb 22, 2022)
Hardcover, 40 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
Nominee - Children
The Year We Learned to Fly
by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2022
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Nancy Paulsen Books (Jan 04, 2022)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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: $18.99Alfred 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: $39.99Amistad (Jul 19, 2022)
Hardcover, 432 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Debut Author
America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir
by Boyah J. Farah
List Price: $26.99Harper (Sep 06, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Debut Author
What the Fireflies Knew
by Kai Harris
List Price: $26.00Tiny Reparations Books (Feb 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Fiction
Nominee - Debut Author
Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins
List Price: $26.00Convergent 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: $26.00Convergent Books (Sep 13, 2022)
Hardcover, 256 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Fiction
Light Skin Gone to Waste
by Toni Ann Johnson
List Price: $22.95University of Georgia Press (Oct 15, 2022)
Paperback
Fiction
Nominee - Fiction
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
by Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
List Price: $27.99Tordotcom (Nov 15, 2022)
Hardcover, 528 pages
Fiction
Nominee - Fiction
The Keeper
by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss
List Price: $24.99Harry N. Abrams (Sep 27, 2022)
Hardcover, 176 pages
Fiction
Nominee - Fiction
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi
List Price: $27.00Atria Books (May 24, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Fiction
Nominee - Fiction
Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2023)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Berkley Books (Apr 12, 2022)
Hardcover, 368 pages
Fiction
Nominee - Instructional
Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations
by Tabitha Brown
List Price: $30.00William 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: $26.00TarcherPerigee (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: $29.00Balance (Oct 18, 2022)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Instructional
Eat Plants, B*tch
by Pinky Cole
List Price: $28.99Gallery 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: $27.99Gallery Books (Feb 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Nonfiction
Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
HarperOne (Apr 26, 2022)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Nonfiction
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by Cody Keenan
List Price: $29.99Mariner Books (Oct 04, 2022)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Nonfiction
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
by Linda Villarosa
List Price: $30.00Doubleday (Jun 14, 2022)
Hardcover, 288 pages
Nonfiction
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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: $29.95Belknap 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: $27.00Counterpoint (Nov 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Nonfiction
Nominee - Poetry
Best Barbarian: Poems
by Roger Reeves
List Price: $26.95W. W. Norton & Company (Mar 22, 2022)
Hardcover, 120 pages
Poetry
Nominee - Poetry
Bluest Nude: Poems
by Ama Codjoe
List Price: $16.00Milkweed Editions (Sep 13, 2022)
Paperback, 120 pages
Poetry
Nominee - Poetry
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
by Robin Coste Lewis
List Price: $35.00Knopf Publishing Group (Dec 06, 2022)
Hardcover, 384 pages
Poetry
Nominee - Poetry
Concentrate: Poems
by Courtney Faye Taylor
List Price: $17.00Graywolf Press (Nov 01, 2022)
Paperback, 96 pages
Poetry
Nominee - Poetry
Muse Found in a Colonized Body
by Yesenia Montilla
List Price: $17.95Four 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: $16.99Quill 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: $24.99Random House Studio (Oct 18, 2022)
Hardcover, 176 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
Nominee - Youth/Teens
Cookies & Milk
by Shawn Amos
List Price: $16.99Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (May 24, 2022)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
Nominee - Youth/Teens
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
by Ashley Woodfolk
List Price: $19.99Feiwel & 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: $17.99Sourcebooks Explore (Feb 01, 2022)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade