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

You my print a list of all the award winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.

39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2016

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

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Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

3-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

List Price: $26.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jul 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye
by Jan Gaye and David Ritz

List Price: $25.99
Amistad (May 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
by Arthur Browne

List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jun 30, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
by Reggie Love

List Price: $26.00
Simon & Schuster (Feb 03, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Winner - Children

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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
by Carole Boston Weatherford

List Price: $16.99
Albert Whitman & Company (Feb 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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If You Plant a Seed
by Kadir Nelson

List Price: $18.99
Balzer + Bray (Mar 03, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
by Nikki Grimes

List Price: $18.99
Orchard Books (Jan 06, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 56 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children

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Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein

List Price: $16.99
Candlewick Press (Jul 14, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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New Shoes
by Susan Meyer

List Price: $16.95
Holiday House (Jan 30, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author

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The Fishermen: A Novel
by Chigozie Obioma

List Price: $26.00
Little, Brown and Company (Apr 14, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy

List Price: $23.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Apr 14, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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The Star Side of Bird Hill
by Naomi Jackson

List Price: $25.95
Penguin Press (Jun 30, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America
by April Ryan

List Price: $24.95
Rowman & Littlefield (Feb 15, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
by Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher

List Price: $27.95
Riverhead Books (Sep 08, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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Winner - Fiction

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Stand Your Ground: A Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray

List Price: $16.00
Touchstone (Jun 01, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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Driving The King: A Novel
by Ravi Howard

List Price: $25.99
Harper (Jan 06, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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Under the Udala Trees
by Chinelo Okparanta

List Price: $26.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Sep 22, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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Mama’s Boy
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

List Price: $16.00
Gallery Books (Jul 01, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback
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Nominee - Fiction

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Ghost Summer: Stories
by Tananarive Due

List Price: $15.95
Prime Books (Sep 01, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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Winner - Instructional

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Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family
by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams

List Price: $30.00
Clarkson Potter (Feb 03, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

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Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self
by Sakina Ibrahim, Jessie Lee, and Rah Crawford

List Price: $18.99
CreateSpace (May 26, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 78 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

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Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home
by Egypt Sherrod

List Price: $16.00
Running Press (Mar 10, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

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Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom
by Cortez R. Rainey

List Price: $16.50
CreateSpace (Jul 16, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 478 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Click for a larger image of Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories

Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories
by Jocelyn Delk Adams

List Price: $22.95
Agate Surrey (Sep 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction

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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
by Pamela Newkirk

List Price: $25.99
Amistad (Jun 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman

List Price: $35.00
Palgrave Macmillan (Nov 05, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 178 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
by Wil Haygood

List Price: $32.50
Knopf (Sep 15, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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The Light Of The World: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Alexander

List Price: $26.00
Grand Central Publishing (Apr 21, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy

List Price: $28.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jan 27, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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Winner - Poetry

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How to Be Drawn
by Terrance Hayes

List Price: $20.00
William Morrow (Mar 31, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Reconnaissance: Poems
by Carl Phillips

List Price: $23.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 01, 2015)
Poetry, Hardcover, 64 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Ross Gay

13-time National Bestseller, Poetry

List Price: $15.95
University of Pittsburgh Press (Jan 07, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Wild Hundreds
by Nate Marshall

List Price: $15.95
University of Pittsburgh Press (Sep 09, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Redbone
by Mahogany L. Browne

List Price: $18.95
Aquarius Press/Willow Books (Oct 01, 2015)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens

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X: A Novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz, Illustrated by Kekla Magoon

List Price: $16.99
Candlewick Press (Jan 06, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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Untwine
by Edwidge Danticat

List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Sep 29, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper

List Price: $17.99
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Jan 06, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace
by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson

List Price: $10.00
CreateSpace (Sep 29, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 102 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
by Andrea Davis Pinkney

List Price: $22.99
Roaring Brook Press (Sep 29, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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