406 NAACP Image Award Winning and Honored Books
As of July 2026, we have identified 406 Image Award nominees and winners on our website. We are working to identify all of the nominated titles since the award’s inception. (Back to the main page).
| Year | Status | Category | Book & Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics by Juanita Tolliver |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book by Taraji P. Henson |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Grown Women by Sarai Johnson |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
One of Us Knows: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Graphic Novel |
Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair by Tomesha Faxio |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwame Alexander |
| 2025 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Brushed Between Cultures by Samarra St. Hilaire |
| 2024 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson |
| 2024 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good by Tasha Cobbs Leonard |
| 2024 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2024 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
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 |
| 2024 | Nominee | Children |
My Hair Is a Book by Maisha Oso |
| 2024 | Nominee | Children |
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair by Carole Boston Weatherford |
| 2024 | Nominee | Children |
All I Need to Be by Rachel Ricketts |
| 2024 | Nominee | Children |
Cicely Tyson by Renée Watson |
| 2024 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi |
| 2024 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Swift River by Essie Chambers |
| 2024 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture by Shirley Neal |
| 2024 | Nominee | Debut Author |
A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo |
| 2024 | Nominee | Fiction |
What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris |
| 2024 | Nominee | Fiction |
Grown Women by Sarai Johnson |
| 2024 | Nominee | Fiction |
Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver |
| 2024 | Nominee | Fiction |
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams |
| 2024 | Nominee | Graphic Novel |
Black Defender: The Awakening by David Washington |
| 2024 | Nominee | Graphic Novel |
Gamerville by Johnnie Christmas |
| 2024 | Nominee | Graphic Novel |
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker |
| 2024 | Nominee | Graphic Novel |
Ghost Roast by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs |
| 2024 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Historically Black Phrases: From “I Ain’t One of Your Lil’ Friends” to “Who All Gon’ Be There?” by jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson |
| 2024 | Nominee | Instructional |
Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us by Chante Griffin |
| 2024 | Nominee | Instructional |
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free by Tabitha Brown |
| 2024 | Nominee | Instructional |
Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts |
| 2024 | Nominee | Instructional |
Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience by Rebecca Moore |
| 2024 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye |
| 2024 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience by Nikole Hannah-Jones |
| 2024 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Steven Conn, Daniela Edmeier, and Damarius Johnson |
| 2024 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks |
| 2024 | Nominee | Poetry |
Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith |
| 2024 | Nominee | Poetry |
Good Dress by Brittany Rogers |
| 2024 | Nominee | Poetry |
Song of My Softening by Omotara James |
| 2024 | Nominee | Poetry |
Load in Nine Times: Poems by Frank X. Walker |
| 2024 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Everyone’s Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni |
| 2024 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein |
| 2024 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi |
| 2024 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Black Star by Kwame Alexander |
| 2024 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel by Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds |
| 2023 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story by Raphael G. Warnock |
| 2023 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected by Cynt Marshall |
| 2023 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir by Michael K. Williams |
| 2023 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama |
| 2023 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis |
| 2023 | Nominee | Children |
The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2023 | Nominee | Children |
Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery |
| 2023 | Nominee | Children |
Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas by Jeanne Walker Harvey |
| 2023 | Nominee | Children |
Black Gold by Laura Obuobi |
| 2023 | Nominee | Children |
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond |
| 2023 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins |
| 2023 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman |
| 2023 | Nominee | Debut Author |
America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir by Boyah J. Farah |
| 2023 | Nominee | Debut Author |
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris |
| 2023 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner by Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks |
| 2023 | Nominee | Fiction |
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
| 2023 | Nominee | Fiction |
Light Skin Gone to Waste by Toni Ann Johnson |
| 2023 | Nominee | Fiction |
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight |
| 2023 | Nominee | Fiction |
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi |
| 2023 | Nominee | Fiction |
The Keeper by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes |
| 2023 | Nominee | Instructional |
Eat Plants, B*tch by Pinky Cole |
| 2023 | Nominee | Instructional |
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts |
| 2023 | Nominee | Instructional |
Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations by Tabitha Brown |
| 2023 | Nominee | Instructional |
Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self by Thema Bryant |
| 2023 | Nominee | Instructional |
The 5 Principles: A Revolutionary Path to Health, Inner Wealth, and Knowledge of Self by Khnum “Stic” Ibomu |
| 2023 | 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 |
| 2023 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by RJ Young |
| 2023 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan |
| 2023 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa |
| 2023 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis |
| 2023 | Nominee | Poetry |
Muse Found in a Colonized Body by Yesenia Montilla |
| 2023 | Nominee | Poetry |
Bluest Nude: Poems by Ama Codjoe |
| 2023 | Nominee | Poetry |
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis |
| 2023 | Nominee | Poetry |
Concentrate: Poems by Courtney Faye Taylor |
| 2023 | Nominee | Poetry |
Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves |
| 2023 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo |
| 2023 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama by Ashley Woodfolk |
| 2023 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir by Liz Montague |
| 2023 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Cookies & Milk by Shawn Amos |
| 2023 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’) by Layla Saad |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Will by Will Smith |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
Long Division by Kiese Laymon |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom by Tabitha Brown |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson |
| 2022 | Nominee | Poetry |
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove |
| 2022 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy by Elijah E. Cummings |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
A Promised Land by Barack Obama |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| 2021 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth |
| 2020 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System by Cyntoia Brown-Long |
| 2020 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Valerie Jarrett |
| 2020 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The Beautiful Ones by Prince Rogers Nelson |
| 2020 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
My Name Is Prince by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o |
| 2020 | Nominee | Children |
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein |
| 2020 | Nominee | Children |
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry |
| 2020 | Nominee | Children |
Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival |
| 2020 | Nominee | Children |
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer by Hal Banfield |
| 2020 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid |
| 2020 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Farm by Joanne Ramos |
| 2020 | Nominee | Debut Author |
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty by Erica Campbell |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton |
| 2020 | Nominee | Fiction |
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby |
| 2020 | Nominee | Fiction |
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah |
| 2020 | Nominee | Fiction |
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2020 | Nominee | Fiction |
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America by Karen Arrington |
| 2020 | Nominee | Instructional |
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous by Farah Merhi |
| 2020 | Nominee | Instructional |
Letters to the Finishers (who struggle to finish) by Candace E. Wilkins |
| 2020 | Nominee | Instructional |
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook by Jose Andres and Matt Goulding |
| 2020 | Nominee | Instructional |
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty by Erica Campbell |
| 2020 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom |
| 2020 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| 2020 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry |
| 2020 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts |
| 2020 | Nominee | Poetry |
Mistress by Chet’la Sebree |
| 2020 | Nominee | Poetry |
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by Damaris B. Hill |
| 2020 | Nominee | Poetry |
Honeyfish by Lauren K. Alleyne |
| 2020 | Nominee | Poetry |
The Tradition by Jericho Brown |
| 2020 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Around Harvard Square by Christopher John Farley |
| 2020 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones |
| 2020 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers |
| 2020 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown |
| 2020 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk by Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Becoming by Michelle Obama |
| 2019 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey |
| 2019 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant |
| 2019 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart |
| 2019 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| 2019 | Nominee | Children |
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds |
| 2019 | Nominee | Children |
I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon |
| 2019 | Nominee | Children |
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi |
| 2019 | Nominee | Children |
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man by Tonya Bolden |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family by David Mann and Shaun Sanders |
| 2019 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Small Country by Gael Faye |
| 2019 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell |
| 2019 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice by Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II |
| 2019 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Heads of the Colored People (paperback): Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones |
| 2019 | Nominee | Fiction |
Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15) by Kimberla Lawson Roby |
| 2019 | Nominee | Fiction |
Who Is the Black Panther?: A Novel of the Marvel Universe by Jesse J. Holland |
| 2019 | Nominee | Fiction |
Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2019 | Nominee | Fiction |
They Come in All Colors by Malcolm Hansen |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life by Daymond John |
| 2019 | Nominee | Instructional |
Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration by Carla Hall |
| 2019 | Nominee | Instructional |
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim |
| 2019 | Nominee | Instructional |
Poised for Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond by Karima Mariama-Arthur |
| 2019 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin |
| 2019 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant |
| 2019 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker |
| 2019 | Nominee | Poetry |
The Gospel According to Wild Indigo by Cyrus Cassells |
| 2019 | Nominee | Poetry |
Confessions of a Barefaced Woman by Allison Joseph |
| 2019 | Nominee | Poetry |
Refuse: Poems by Julian Randall |
| 2019 | Nominee | Poetry |
Ghost, Like a Place by Iain Haley Pollock |
| 2019 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
The Dream of America by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2019 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden |
| 2019 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The 5 O’Clock Band by Troy Andrews |
| 2019 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin by James L. Swanson |
| 2019 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 2018 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You by Misty Copeland |
| 2018 | Nominee | Poetry |
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Ntozake Shange |
| 2018 | Nominee | Poetry |
Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 by Rita Dove |
| 2017 | Nominee | Poetry |
Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams |
| 2017 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 2016 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye by Jan Gaye and David Ritz |
| 2016 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne |
| 2016 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Power Forward: My Presidential Education by Reggie Love |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford |
| 2016 | Nominee | Children |
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson |
| 2016 | Nominee | Children |
New Shoes by Susan Meyer |
| 2016 | Nominee | Children |
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts by Nikki Grimes |
| 2016 | Nominee | Children |
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
The Fishermen: A Novel by Chigozie Obioma |
| 2016 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America by April Ryan |
| 2016 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy |
| 2016 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson |
| 2016 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken by Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
Stand Your Ground: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2016 | Nominee | Fiction |
Mama’s Boy by ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| 2016 | Nominee | Fiction |
Driving The King: A Novel by Ravi Howard |
| 2016 | Nominee | Fiction |
Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due |
| 2016 | Nominee | Fiction |
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams |
| 2016 | Nominee | Instructional |
Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories by Jocelyn Delk Adams |
| 2016 | Nominee | Instructional |
Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self by Sakina Ibrahim, Jessie Lee, and Rah Crawford |
| 2016 | Nominee | Instructional |
Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom by Cortez R. Rainey |
| 2016 | Nominee | Instructional |
Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home by Egypt Sherrod |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk |
| 2016 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Light Of The World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander |
| 2016 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood |
| 2016 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy |
| 2016 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes |
| 2016 | Nominee | Poetry |
Reconnaissance: Poems by Carl Phillips |
| 2016 | Nominee | Poetry |
Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall |
| 2016 | Nominee | Poetry |
Redbone by Mahogany L. Browne |
| 2016 | Nominee | Poetry |
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay |
| 2016 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz |
| 2016 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson |
| 2016 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Untwine by Edwidge Danticat |
| 2016 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| 2016 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine by David Chanoff and Louis Sullivan |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland |
| 2015 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr. by Marion Barry Jr. and Omar Tyree |
| 2015 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Stand Up Straight and Sing! by Jessye Norman |
| 2015 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Handbook For An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata And My Crazy Mother, And Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair) by Rosie Perez |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After by Rachel Renée Russell |
| 2015 | Nominee | Children |
Little Melba And Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown |
| 2015 | Nominee | Children |
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz |
| 2015 | Nominee | Children |
Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden |
| 2015 | Nominee | Children |
Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America by Tonya Bolden |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Forty Acres: A Novel by Dwayne Alexander Smith |
| 2015 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Time of the Locust: A Novel by Morowa Yejide |
| 2015 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile |
| 2015 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Remedy for a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson |
| 2015 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame by Darrell Miller |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey |
| 2015 | Nominee | Fiction |
The Prodigal Son (Reverend Curtis Black #11) by Kimberla Lawson Roby |
| 2015 | Nominee | Fiction |
Momma: Gone by Nina Foxx |
| 2015 | Nominee | Fiction |
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay |
| 2015 | Nominee | Fiction |
Another Womans Man (A Gibbons Gold Digger Novel) by Shelly Ellis |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life by Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard |
| 2015 | Nominee | Instructional |
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix by Bryant Terry |
| 2015 | Nominee | Instructional |
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System by Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles |
| 2015 | Nominee | Instructional |
101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education by Gwen Richardson |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson |
| 2015 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin |
| 2015 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Who We Be: The Colorization of America by Jeff Chang |
| 2015 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay |
| 2015 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine |
| 2015 | Nominee | Poetry |
The New Testament by Jericho Brown |
| 2015 | Nominee | Poetry |
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore |
| 2015 | Nominee | Poetry |
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott |
| 2015 | Nominee | Poetry |
Digest (Stahlecker Selections) by Gregory Pardlo |
| 2015 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2015 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| 2015 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell |
| 2015 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America by Russell Freedman |
| 2015 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy) by Deborah Wiles |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis |
| 2014 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante |
| 2014 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou |
| 2014 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout |
| 2014 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson |
| 2014 | Nominee | Children |
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney |
| 2014 | Nominee | Children |
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me by Daniel Beaty |
| 2014 | Nominee | Children |
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl! by Betty K. Bynum |
| 2014 | Nominee | Children |
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! by Jonah Winter |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Nine Years Under by Sheri Booker |
| 2014 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair! by Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter |
| 2014 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Returned by Jason Mott |
| 2014 | Nominee | Debut Author |
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story by Hannah Weyer |
| 2014 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
Anybody’s Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young |
| 2014 | Nominee | Fiction |
Never Say Never by Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2014 | Nominee | Fiction |
Little Green by Walter Mosley |
| 2014 | Nominee | Fiction |
Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life by Robin Quivers |
| 2014 | Nominee | Instructional |
Do I Look Like an ATM?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children by Sabrina Lamb |
| 2014 | Nominee | Instructional |
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education by Donna Ford |
| 2014 | Nominee | Instructional |
The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs by Kevin D. Johnson |
| 2014 | Nominee | Instructional |
Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It) by Sherri Shepherd and Billie Fitzpatrick |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer |
| 2014 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations by Retha Powers |
| 2014 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart |
| 2014 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones by Hill Harper |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers by Frank X. Walker |
| 2014 | Nominee | Poetry |
The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa |
| 2014 | Nominee | Poetry |
The Cineaste: Poems by A. Van Jordan |
| 2014 | Nominee | Poetry |
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Jamaal May |
| 2014 | Nominee | Poetry |
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni |
| 2014 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers) by Tanya Lee Stone |
| 2014 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens by Romal J. Tune |
| 2014 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Raising The Bar by Gabrielle Douglas |
| 2014 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg |
| 2014 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Invasion by Walter Dean Myers |
| 2013 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss |
| 2013 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ Smith |
| 2013 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen |
| 2013 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld |
| 2013 | Nominee | Children |
In the Land of Milk and Honey by Joyce Carol Thomas |
| 2013 | Nominee | Children |
Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson |
| 2013 | Nominee | Children |
Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim |
| 2013 | Nominee | Children |
Indigo Blume And The Garden City by Kwame Alexander |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
Nikki G: A Portrait of Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Words by Darryl L. Lacy |
| 2013 | Nominee | Debut Author |
A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel by Yvvette Edwards |
| 2013 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister by Sonia Jackson Myles |
| 2013 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Congo: Spirit of Darkness (Volume 1) by Mayi Ngwala and Allain Ngwala |
| 2013 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Antebellum a Novel by R Kayeen Thomas |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
The Reverend’ss Wife (Reverend Curtis Black #9) by Kimberla Lawson Roby |
| 2013 | Nominee | Fiction |
Destiny’s Divas: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2013 | Nominee | Fiction |
Silent Cry (Zane Presents) by Dwayne D. Birch |
| 2013 | Nominee | Fiction |
A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel (Blessings Series) by Beverly Jenkins |
| 2013 | Nominee | Fiction |
The Secret She Kept by ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Health First!: The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide by Eleanor Hinton Hoytt and Hilary Beard |
| 2013 | Nominee | Instructional |
Formula 50: A 6-Week Workout and Nutrition Plan That Will Transform Your Life by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson |
| 2013 | Nominee | Instructional |
The No Excuse Guide To Success: No Matter What Your Boss--Or Life--Throws At You by Jim Smith |
| 2013 | Nominee | Instructional |
12 Ways to Put Money in Your Pocket Every Month Without a Part-Time Job, the Skinny Book That Makes Your Wallet Fat by Jennifer S. Matthews |
| 2013 | Nominee | Instructional |
It’s Complicated (But It Doesn’t Have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love by Paul Carrick Brunson |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin |
| 2013 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis |
| 2013 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman’s Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones by Connie Rice |
| 2013 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear by Shirley Sherrod |
| 2013 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history. by Diane Brady |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Speak Water by Truth Thomas |
| 2013 | Nominee | Poetry |
Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems (National Poetry) by Marcus Wicker |
| 2013 | Nominee | Poetry |
The Ground: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips |
| 2013 | Nominee | Poetry |
Thrall: Poems by Natasha Trethewey |
| 2013 | Nominee | Poetry |
Hurrah’s Nest (Cedar Tick Natural History Chapbook) by Arisa White |
| 2013 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders by Barack Obama and Gregory Reed |
| 2013 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 2013 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon |
| 2013 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams |
| 2013 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Pinned by Sharon G. Flake |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson |
| 2012 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother by Janny Scott |
| 2012 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World by Dave Zirin and John Wesley Carlos |
| 2012 | Nominee | Biography/Autobiography |
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
You Can Be a Friend by Tony Dungy |
| 2012 | Nominee | Children |
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George by Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| 2012 | Nominee | Children |
White Water by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein |
| 2012 | Nominee | Children |
Acoustic Rooster And His Barnyard Band by Kwame Alexander |
| 2012 | Nominee | Children |
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy by Shirley Strawberry |
| 2012 | Nominee | Debut Author |
Defining Moment: Barack Obama: The Historical Journey to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by Patricia Duncan |
| 2012 | Nominee | Debut Author |
We the Animals by Justin Torres |
| 2012 | Nominee | Debut Author |
The Loom by Shella Gillus |
| 2012 | Nominee | Debut Author |
2Grieve 2Gether: A Journal from the Heart Helping Survivors and Supporters Navigate the Healing Process by Denise Hall Brown |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
Say Amen, Again by ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| 2012 | Nominee | Fiction |
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones |
| 2012 | Nominee | Fiction |
Boundaries by Elizabeth Nunez |
| 2012 | Nominee | Fiction |
A Silken Thread (Thorndike Press Large Print African American Series) by Brenda Jackson |
| 2012 | Nominee | Fiction |
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God by T. D. Jakes |
| 2012 | Nominee | Instructional |
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community by Georgia A. Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana |
| 2012 | Nominee | Instructional |
Too Important To Fail: Saving America’s Boys (Tavis Smiley Reports) by Tavis Smiley |
| 2012 | Nominee | Instructional |
Living My Dream: An Artistic Approach to Marketing by Synthia SAINT JAMES |
| 2012 | Nominee | Instructional |
A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets by Bertice Berry |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money In Its Place by Hill Harper |
| 2012 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, And Black Women In America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry |
| 2012 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness?: What It Means To Be Black Now by Touré |
| 2012 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson |
| 2012 | Nominee | Nonfiction |
Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All by Russell Simmons and Chris Morrow |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems by James B. Golden |
| 2012 | Nominee | Poetry |
Last Seen (Felix Pollak Prize In Poetry) by Jacqueline Jones LaMon |
| 2012 | Nominee | Poetry |
Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney |
| 2012 | Nominee | Poetry |
Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice by Haki Madhubuti |
| 2012 | Nominee | Poetry |
Intimate Thoughts by Darrin DeWitt Henson |
| 2012 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running (African-American Biographies (Enslow)) by Jeff Burlingame |
| 2012 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes |
| 2012 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Kick by Walter Dean Myers |
| 2012 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon |
| 2012 | Nominee | Youth/Teens |
Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary by Jerdine Nolen |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles by Ray Charles Robinson Jr. |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
Getting To Happy by Terry McMillan |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life by Antwone Fisher |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni |
| 2011 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Biography/Autobiography |
Michelle Obama: The First Lady In Photographs by Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Children |
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration Of Rosa, Barack, And The Pioneers Of Change by Michelle Cook |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Debut Author |
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by Reginald Dwayne Betts |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery by Walter Mosley |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Instructional |
Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, And Commitment by Steve Harvey and Denene Millner |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Nonfiction |
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Poetry |
Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni |
| 2010 | 🏆 Winner | Youth/Teens |
Michelle Obama: Meet The First Lady by David Bergen Brophy |
| 2002 | 🏆 Winner | Fiction |
Just the Two of Us by Will Smith |
| 2001 | Nominee | Children |
Happy to Be Nappy by bell hooks |
| 1992 | 🏆 Winner | Outstanding Literary Work |
Waiting To Exhale by Terry McMillan |
| 1992 | Nominee | Outstanding Literary Work |
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel by Alice Walker |
| 1992 | Nominee | Outstanding Literary Work |
Jazz by Toni Morrison |
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