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 may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.
40 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2023
Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
by Michael K. Williams
List Price: $28.99Crown Publishing Group (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
by Jenifer Lewis
List Price: $28.99Amistad (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story
by Raphael G. Warnock
List Price: $28.99Penguin Press (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by Michelle Obama
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Crown Publishing Group (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected
by Cynt Marshall
List Price: $28.99Ballantine Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Children
Stacey’s Remarkable Books
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery, Illustrated by Kitt Thomas
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Balzer + Bray (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Black Gold
by Laura Obuobi, Illustrated by London Ladd
List Price: $28.99HarperCollins (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas
by Jeanne Walker Harvey, Illustrated by Loveis Wise
List Price: $28.99HarperCollins (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
The Year We Learned to Fly
by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Fiction
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2022
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Nancy Paulsen Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Illustrated by Daniel Minter
List Price: $28.99Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
by George McCalman
List Price: $28.99Amistad (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir
by Boyah J. Farah
List Price: $28.99Harper (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
What the Fireflies Knew
by Kai Harris
List Price: $28.99Tiny Reparations Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins
List Price: $28.99Convergent Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
by Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks
List Price: $28.99Convergent Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Light Skin Gone to Waste
by Toni Ann Johnson
List Price: $28.99University of Georgia Press (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
by Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
List Price: $28.99Tordotcom (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
The Keeper
by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss
List Price: $28.99Harry N. Abrams (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Atria Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2023)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2023 BCALA Literary Award
Berkley Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations
by Tabitha Brown
List Price: $28.99William Morrow (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self
by Thema Bryant
List Price: $28.99TarcherPerigee (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
The 5 Principles: A Revolutionary Path to Health, Inner Wealth, and Knowledge of Self
by Khnum “Stic” Ibomu
List Price: $28.99Balance (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Eat Plants, B*tch
by Pinky Cole
List Price: $28.99Gallery Books/13A (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
List Price: $28.99Gallery Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
List Price: $28.99HarperOne (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by Cody Keenan
List Price: $28.99Mariner Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
by Linda Villarosa
List Price: $28.99Doubleday (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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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
List Price: $28.99Belknap Press (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by RJ Young
List Price: $28.99Counterpoint (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Best Barbarian: Poems
by Roger Reeves
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2023)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
W. W. Norton & Company (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Bluest Nude: Poems
by Ama Codjoe
List Price: $28.99Milkweed Editions (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
by Robin Coste Lewis
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2023)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Knopf Publishing Group (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Concentrate: Poems
by Courtney Faye Taylor
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2023)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Graywolf Press (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Muse Found in a Colonized Body
by Yesenia Montilla
List Price: $28.99Four Way Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by Elizabeth Acevedo, Illustrated by Andrea Pippins
List Price: $28.99Quill Tree Books (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir
by Liz Montague
List Price: $28.99Random House Studio (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Cookies & Milk
by Shawn Amos
List Price: $28.99Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
by Ashley Woodfolk
List Price: $28.99Feiwel & Friends (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’)
by Layla Saad
List Price: $28.99Sourcebooks Explore (Aug 23, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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