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.

37 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2019

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

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Becoming
by Michelle Obama

1-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)

List Price: $32.50
Crown (Nov 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant

List Price: $24.99
Amistad (May 08, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
by Franchesca Ramsey

List Price: $27.00
Grand Central Publishing (May 22, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart

List Price: $44.99
Oxford University Press (Feb 01, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 944 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela

List Price: $35.00
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Jul 10, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
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Winner - Children

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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly, Illustrated by Laura Freeman

12-time National Bestseller, Juvenile Nonfiction

List Price: $18.99
HarperCollins (Jan 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
by Tahereh Mafi

List Price: $18.99
HarperCollins (Oct 16, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Children

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The Word Collector
by Peter H. Reynolds

List Price: $17.99
Orchard Books (Jan 30, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children

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Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
by Tonya Bolden

List Price: $19.99
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Jan 09, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children

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I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t
by Leo and Diane Dillon

List Price: $18.99
The Blue Sky Press (Feb 27, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author

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Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family
by David Mann and Shaun Sanders

List Price: $24.99
Thomas Nelson (Nov 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice
by Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II

List Price: $80.00
Lexington Books (Apr 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 112 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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Heads of the Colored People (paperback): Stories
by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

List Price: $16.00
Atria / 37 Ink (Jan 22, 2019)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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Small Country
by Gael Faye

List Price: $25.00
Hogarth Press (Jun 05, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 192 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
by Janet Dewart Bell

List Price: $25.99
The New Press (May 08, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Winner - Fiction

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An American Marriage: A Novel
by Tayari Jones

List Price: $30.00
Algonquin Books (Feb 06, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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They Come in All Colors
by Malcolm Hansen

List Price: $26.00
Atria Books (May 29, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15)
by Kimberla Lawson Roby

List Price: $26.00
Grand Central Publishing (Jul 31, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray

List Price: $15.00
Touchstone (Jun 19, 2018)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

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Who Is the Black Panther?: A Novel of the Marvel Universe
by Jesse J. Holland

List Price: $9.99
Titan Books (May 08, 2018)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
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Winner - Instructional

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Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life
by Daymond John

List Price: $27.00
Currency (Jan 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

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Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration
by Carla Hall

List Price: $29.99
Harper Wave (Oct 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim

List Price: $20.00
Ballantine Books (Oct 30, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

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Poised for Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond
by Karima Mariama-Arthur

List Price: $29.99
Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 29, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 283 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin

List Price: $26.99
St. Martin’s Press (Jun 05, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant

List Price: $24.99
Amistad (May 08, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
by Beverly Bond

List Price: $30.00
Atria Books (Feb 27, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Winner - Poetry

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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
by Alice Walker

List Price: $25.00
Atria / 37 Ink (Oct 02, 2018)
Poetry, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
by Allison Joseph

List Price: $17.95
HarperTorch (Jun 12, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 120 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Ghost, Like a Place
by Iain Haley Pollock

List Price: $15.95
Alice James Books (Sep 18, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 100 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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The Gospel According to Wild Indigo
by Cyrus Cassells

List Price: $15.95
Southern Illinois University Press (Feb 22, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

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Refuse: Poems
by Julian Randall

List Price: $17.00
University of Pittsburgh Press (Sep 18, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens

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The Dream of America
by Jacqueline Woodson

List Price: $17.99
Nancy Paulsen Books (Aug 28, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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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

List Price: $19.99
Scholastic Press (Jan 02, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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The Journey of Little Charlie
by Christopher Paul Curtis

List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Jan 30, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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The 5 O’Clock Band
by Troy Andrews, Illustrated by Bryan Collier

List Price: $17.99
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Jun 19, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden

List Price: $19.99
Bloomsbury YA (Sep 11, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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