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.

45 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2024

Winner – Biography/Autobiography
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Lovely One: A Memoir
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words
Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Winner – Children
You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book
Nominee – Children
All I Need to Be
Nominee – Children
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
Nominee – Children
My Hair Is a Book

My Hair Is a Book

by Maisha Oso

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HarperCollins (Sep 17, 2024)
Picture Book, Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN: 9780063249103Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Children
Cicely Tyson
Winner – Debut Author
Grown Women
Nominee – Debut Author
A Kind of Madness
Nominee – Debut Author
Swift River
Nominee – Debut Author
Masquerade
Nominee – Debut Author
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture
Winner – Fiction
One of Us Knows: A Thriller
Nominee – Fiction
Grown Women
Nominee – Fiction
What You Leave Behind
Nominee – Fiction
Neighbors and Other Stories
Nominee – Fiction
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Winner – Graphic Novel
Punk Rock Karaoke
Nominee – Graphic Novel
Ghost Roast
Nominee – Graphic Novel
Gamerville

Gamerville

by Johnnie Christmas

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HarperAlley (Jul 16, 2024)
Middle Grade, Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780063056824Publisher: HarperCollins
Nominee – Graphic Novel
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Nominee – Graphic Novel
Black Defender: The Awakening
Winner – Instructional
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair
Nominee – Instructional
Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience
Nominee – Instructional
Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight
Nominee – Instructional
Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us
Nominee – Instructional
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free
Winner – Nonfiction
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
Nominee – Nonfiction
Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World
Nominee – Nonfiction
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
Nominee – Nonfiction
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience
Nominee – Nonfiction
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
Winner – Poetry
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
Nominee – Poetry
Good Dress

Good Dress

by Brittany Rogers

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Tin House Books (Oct 15, 2024)
Poetry, Paperback, 104 pages
ISBN: 9781959030836Publisher: Tin House Books
Nominee – Poetry
Song of My Softening

Song of My Softening

by Omotara James

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Alice James Books (Feb 13, 2024)
Poetry, Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN: 9781948579247Publisher: Alice James Books
Nominee – Poetry
Bluff: Poems
Nominee – Poetry
Load in Nine Times: Poems
Winner – Youth/Teens
Brushed Between Cultures
Nominee – Youth/Teens
Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel
Nominee – Youth/Teens