NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

by Joy-Ann Reid

7-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

• 3 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!
• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists

Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good

by Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Lovely One: A Memoir

by Ketanji Brown Jackson

2-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists

By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words

by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

by Whoopi Goldberg

7-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists

You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book

by Taraji P. Henson, Illustrated by Paul Kellam

7-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction

Cicely Tyson

by Renée Watson, Illustrated by Sherry Shine

My Hair Is a Book

by Maisha Oso, Illustrated by London Ladd

All I Need to Be

by Rachel Ricketts

Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair

by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Ekua Holmes

Grown Women

by Sarai Johnson

1-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture

by Shirley Neal

• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!

Masquerade

by O.O. Sangoyomi

Swift River

by Essie Chambers

9-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

A Kind of Madness

by Uche Okonkwo

One of Us Knows: A Thriller

by Alyssa Cole

Grown Women

by Sarai Johnson

1-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

What You Leave Behind

by Wanda M. Morris

Neighbors and Other Stories

by Diane Oliver

3-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!
• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

by Tia Williams

13-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)

• 4 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!
• Selected for 1 Book Club Reading Lists

Punk Rock Karaoke

by Bianca Xunise

Gamerville

by Johnnie Christmas

Ghost Roast

by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs, Illustrated by Emily Cannon

Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined

by David F. Walker

Black Defender: The Awakening

by David Washington

Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair

by Tomesha Faxio

I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free

by Tabitha Brown

5-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us

by Chante Griffin

Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight

by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience

by Rebecca Moore

Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest

by Fawn Weaver

14-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!

The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

by Larry Tye

3-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

The 1619 Project a Visual Experience

by Nikole Hannah-Jones

3-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

by Noliwe Rooks

Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World

by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Steven Conn, Daniela Edmeier, and Damarius Johnson

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

by Kwame Alexander

2-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry

Load in Nine Times: Poems

by Frank X. Walker

Bluff: Poems

by Danez Smith

4-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry

• A New York Times Notable Book of 2024

Song of My Softening

by Omotara James

Good Dress

by Brittany Rogers

2-time BLK Bestseller, Poetry

Brushed Between Cultures

by Samarra St. Hilaire

Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel

by Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds

1-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Fiction

Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi, Illustrated by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson

2-time BLK Bestseller, Juvenile Nonfiction

American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein

• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!

Black Star

by Kwame Alexander

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestseller!