404 NAACP Image Award Winning and Honored Books

As of May 2025, we have indentified 404 Image Award nominees and winners on our website. We are working to indentify all of the nominated titles since the award’s inception (Back to the main page).

2024 Winner: Biography/Autobiography: Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
2024 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good by Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2024 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
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: Biography/Autobiography: Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
2024 Winner: Children: You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book by Taraji P. Henson
2024 Nominee: Children: Cicely Tyson by Renée Watson
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 Winner: Debut Author: Grown Women by Sarai Johnson
2024 Nominee: Debut Author: Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture by Shirley Neal
2024 Nominee: Debut Author: Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi
2024 Nominee: Debut Author: Swift River by Essie Chambers
2024 Nominee: Debut Author: Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us by Chante Griffin
2024 Winner: Fiction: One of Us Knows: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
2024 Nominee: Fiction: Grown Women by Sarai Johnson
2024 Nominee: Fiction: What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris
2024 Nominee: Fiction: Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
2024 Nominee: Fiction: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
2024 Winner: Graphic Novel: Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise
2024 Nominee: Graphic Novel: Gamerville by Johnnie Christmas
2024 Nominee: Graphic Novel: Ghost Roast by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs
2024 Nominee: Graphic Novel: Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker
2024 Nominee: Graphic Novel: Black Defender: The Awakening by Dr. David Washington
2024 Winner: Instructional: Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair by Tomesha Faxio
2024 Nominee: Instructional: I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free by Tabitha Brown
2024 Nominee: Instructional: A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo
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 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
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: A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks
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 Winner: Poetry: This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwame Alexander
2024 Nominee: Poetry: Load in Nine Times: Poems by Frank X. Walker
2024 Nominee: Poetry: Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith
2024 Nominee: Poetry: Song of My Softening by Omotara James
2024 Nominee: Poetry: Good Dress by Brittany Rogers
2024 Winner: Youth/Teens: Brushed Between Cultures by Samarra St. Hilaire
2024 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel by Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds
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: American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
2023 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
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: You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected by Cynt Marshall
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: Children: Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
2023 Nominee: Children: Black Gold by Laura Obuobi
2023 Nominee: Children: Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas by Jeanne Walker Harvey
2023 Nominee: Children: The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
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: 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: Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins
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 Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
2023 Nominee: Fiction: The Keeper by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes
2023 Nominee: Fiction: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
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: Instructional: Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
2023 Nominee: Instructional: Eat Plants, B*tch by Pinky Cole
2023 Nominee: Nonfiction: Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
2023 Nominee: Nonfiction: Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
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: Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
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: Poetry: Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves
2023 Nominee: Poetry: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis
2023 Nominee: Poetry: Bluest Nude: Poems by Ama Codjoe
2023 Nominee: Poetry: Concentrate: Poems by Courtney Faye Taylor
2023 Nominee: Poetry: Muse Found in a Colonized Body by Yesenia Montilla
2023 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo
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: Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama by Ashley Woodfolk
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 Finalist: Poetry: Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
2022 Winner: Youth/Teens: Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
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 Honorée 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: My Name Is Prince by Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
2020 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: The Beautiful Ones by Prince Rogers Nelson
2020 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Valerie Jarrett
2020 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System by Cyntoia Brown-Long
2020 Winner: Children: Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
2020 Nominee: Children: Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival
2020 Nominee: Children: Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
2020 Nominee: Children: A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein
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: More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty by Erica Campbell
2020 Nominee: Debut Author: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2020 Nominee: Debut Author: The Farm by Joanne Ramos
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: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2020 Nominee: Fiction: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
2020 Nominee: Fiction: Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
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: More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty by Erica Campbell
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: Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous by Farah Merhi
2020 Nominee: Nonfiction: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
2020 Nominee: Nonfiction: The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
2020 Nominee: Nonfiction: Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
2020 Nominee: Nonfiction: Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2020 Winner: Poetry: Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
2020 Nominee: Poetry: The Tradition by Jericho Brown
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: Mistress by Chet’la Sebree
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: 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
2020 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
2019 Winner: Biography/Autobiography: Becoming by Michelle Obama
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: Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey
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: A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
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 & Diane Dillon
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 GaëL Faye
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 Nominee: Debut Author: Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell
2019 Winner: Fiction: An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
2019 Nominee: Fiction: They Come in All Colors by Malcolm Hansen
2019 Nominee: Fiction: Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15) by Kimberla Lawson Roby
2019 Nominee: Fiction: Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray
2019 Nominee: Fiction: Who Is the Black Panther?: A Novel of the Marvel Universe by Jesse J. Holland
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: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
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: 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: Confessions of a Barefaced Woman by Allison Joseph
2019 Nominee: Poetry: Ghost, Like a Place by Iain Haley Pollock
2019 Nominee: Poetry: The Gospel According to Wild Indigo by Cyrus Cassells
2019 Nominee: Poetry: Refuse: Poems by Julian Randall
2019 Winner: Youth/Teens: The Dream of America by Jacqueline Woodson
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
2019 Nominee: Youth/Teens: The 5 O’Clock Band by Troy Andrews
2019 Nominee: Youth/Teens: We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden
2018 Nominee: Nonfiction: Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You by Misty Copeland
2018 Nominee: Poetry: Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith
2018 Nominee: Poetry: Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Ntozake Shange
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: 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 Nominee: Children: New Shoes by Susan Meyer
2016 Winner: Debut Author: The Fishermen: A Novel by Chigozie Obioma
2016 Nominee: Debut Author: The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
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 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: Driving The King: A Novel by Ravi Howard
2016 Nominee: Fiction: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
2016 Nominee: Fiction: Mama’s Boy by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
2016 Nominee: Fiction: Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
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: Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self by Sakina Ibrahim, Jessie Lee, and Rah Crawford
2016 Nominee: Instructional: Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home by Egypt Sherrod
2016 Nominee: Instructional: Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom by Cortez R. Rainey
2016 Nominee: Instructional: Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories by Jocelyn Delk Adams
2016 Winner: Nonfiction: Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk
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 Nominee: Nonfiction: The Light Of The World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
2016 Winner: Poetry: How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
2016 Nominee: Poetry: Reconnaissance: Poems by Carl Phillips
2016 Nominee: Poetry: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
2016 Nominee: Poetry: Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
2016 Nominee: Poetry: Redbone by Mahogany L. Browne
2016 Winner: Youth/Teens: X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
2016 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
2016 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
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: Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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: 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 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Stand Up Straight and Sing! by Jessye Norman
2015 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr. by Marion Barry Jr. and Omar Tyree
2015 Winner: Children: Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After by Rachel Renee Russell
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 Nominee: Children: Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
2015 Nominee: Children: Little Melba And Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
2015 Winner: Debut Author: Forty Acres: A Novel by Dwayne Alexander Smith
2015 Nominee: Debut Author: Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
2015 Nominee: Debut Author: Time of the Locust: A Novel by Morowa Yejide
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 Nominee: Debut Author: Remedy for a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson
2015 Winner: Fiction: A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
2015 Nominee: Fiction: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
2015 Nominee: Fiction: Another Womans Man (A Gibbons Gold Digger Novel) by Shelly Ellis
2015 Nominee: Fiction: The Prodigal Son (Reverend Curtis Black #11) by Kimberla Lawson Roby
2015 Nominee: Fiction: Momma: Gone by Nina Foxx
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: 101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education by Gwen Richardson
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 Winner: Nonfiction: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
2015 Nominee: Nonfiction: Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
2015 Nominee: Nonfiction: Who We Be: The Colorization of America by Jeff Chang
2015 Nominee: Nonfiction: Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin
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 Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott
2015 Nominee: Poetry: We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore
2015 Nominee: Poetry: The New Testament by Jericho Brown
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: Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy) by Deborah Wiles
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
2014 Winner: Biography/Autobiography: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
2014 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch
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 Winner: Children: Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
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: Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
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: On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story by Hannah Weyer
2014 Nominee: Debut Author: The Returned by Jason Mott
2014 Nominee: Debut Author: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
2014 Winner: Fiction: Anybody’s Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young
2014 Nominee: Fiction: Little Green by Walter Mosley
2014 Nominee: Fiction: Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
2014 Nominee: Fiction: Never Say Never by Victoria Christopher Murray
2014 Winner: Instructional: The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life by Robin Quivers
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 Nominee: Instructional: The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs by Kevin D. Johnson
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 Winner: Nonfiction : Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
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 : Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations by Retha Powers
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: Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni
2014 Nominee: Poetry: Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Jamaal May
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: Raising The Bar by Gabrielle Douglas
2014 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Invasion by Walter Dean Myers
2014 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg
2014 Nominee: Youth/Teens: God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens by Romal J. Tune
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: Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim
2013 Nominee: Children: Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson
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: The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister by Sonia Jackson Myles
2013 Nominee: Debut Author: A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel by Yvvette Edwards
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: 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: Destiny’s Divas: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray
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: 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 Nominee: Instructional: Formula 50: A 6-Week Workout and Nutrition Plan That Will Transform Your Life by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
2013 Winner: Nonfiction : The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
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 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 : Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis
2013 Nominee: Nonfiction : The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear by Shirley Sherrod
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: Pinned by Sharon G. Flake
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
2012 Winner: Biography/Autobiography: My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
2012 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
2012 Nominee: Biography/Autobiography: Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention by Manning Marable
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 Winner: Children: You Can Be a Friend by Tony Dungy
2012 Nominee: Children: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
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 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: A Silken Thread (Thorndike Press Large Print African American Series) by Brenda Jackson
2012 Nominee: Fiction: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
2012 Nominee: Fiction: The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George
2012 Nominee: Fiction: Boundaries by Elizabeth Nunez
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: A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets by Bertice Berry
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 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 : The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson
2012 Nominee: Nonfiction : Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness?: What It Means To Be Black Now by Touré
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: Kick by Walter Dean Myers
2012 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary by Jerdine Nolen
2012 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon
2012 Nominee: Youth/Teens: Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes
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