NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction. Walter Mosley holds the record for most wins in this category, with three.
Winners and nominees
1990s
Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Children of the Dust | Clancy Carlile | Winner | [1] |
1999 | ||||
Mama Flora's Family | Alex Haley and David Stevens | Winner | [2][better source needed] |
2000s
Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | For the Love of Money | Omar Tyree | Winner | |
2002 | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Terry McMillan | Winner | [3][better source needed] |
2003 | Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea | Nikki Giovanni | Winner | [4][5][better source needed] |
A Love of My Own | E. Lynn Harris | Finalist | ||
The Emperor of Ocean Park | Stephen L. Carter | |||
Thieves' Paradise | Eric Jerome Dickey | |||
The Bondswoman's Narrative | Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. | |||
2004 | Love | Toni Morrison | Winner | [6][better source needed] |
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni | Nikki Giovanni | Finalist | [6][better source needed] | |
Diary of a Groupie | Omar Tyree | |||
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings | Alice Walker | |||
The Other Woman | Eric Jerome Dickey | |||
2005 | Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Novel | Bishop T. D. Jakes | Winner | [7][better source needed] |
2006 | Breaking the Cycle | Zane | Winner | |
72 Hour Hold | Bebe Moore Campbell | Finalist | ||
Cinnamon Kiss | Walter Mosley | |||
Fledgling | Octavia E. Butler | |||
Genevieve | Eric Jerome Dickey | |||
2007 | Baby Brother's Blues | Pearl Cleage | Winner | [8] |
After | Marita Golden | Finalist | [8][9] | |
All Aunt Hagar's Children | Edward P. Jones | |||
Fortunate Son | Walter Mosley | |||
Wizard of the Crow | Ngugi wa Thiongo | |||
2008 | Blonde Faith | Walter Mosley | Winner | [10] |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Finalist | [11] | |
Cion | Zakes Mda | |||
Knots | Nuruddin Farah | |||
New England White | Stephen L. Carter | |||
2009 | In the Night of the Heat | Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes | Winner | [12] |
Blood Colony | Tananarive Due | Finalist | [13] | |
Going Down South | Bonnie Glover | |||
Just Too Good to Be True | E. Lynn Harris | |||
Song Yet Sung | James McBride |
2010s
Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | The Long Fall | Walter Mosley | Winner | [15] |
Basketball Jones | E. Lynn Harris | Finalist | [16] | |
Before I Forget | Leonard Pitts | |||
Life is Short But Wide | J. California Cooper | |||
The Book of Night Women | Marlon James | |||
2011 | Getting to Happy | Terry McMillan | Winner | [17] |
A Taste of Honey | Jabari Asim | Finalist | ||
Glorious | Bernice L. McFadden | |||
Till You Hear from Me | Pearl Cleage | |||
Wench | Dolen Perkins-Valdez | |||
2012 | Say Amen, Again | ReShonda Tate Billingsley | Winner | [18] |
Boundaries | Elizabeth Nunez | Finalist | [18] | |
A Silken Thread | Brenda Jackson | |||
Silver Sparrow | Tayari Jones | |||
The Plot Against Hip Hop | Nelson George | |||
2013 | The Reverend's Wife | Kimberla Lawson Roby | Winner | [19] |
Destiny's Divas | Victoria Christopher Murray | Finalist | [19][20] | |
The Secret She Kept | ReShonda Tate Billingsley | |||
Silent Cry | Dywane Birch | |||
A Wish and a Prayer | Beverly Jenkins | |||
2014 | Anybody's Daughter | Pamela Samuels Young | Winner | [21] |
A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story | Sister Souljah | Finalist | [21] | |
Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery | Walter Mosley | |||
Never Say Never | Victoria Christopher Murray | |||
Who Asked You? | Terry McMillan | |||
2015 | A Wanted Woman | Eric Jerome Dickey | Winner | [22] |
An Untamed State | Roxane Gay | Finalist | [22] | |
Another Woman’s Man | Shelly Ellis | |||
Momma: Gone | Nina Foxx | |||
The Prodigal Son | Kimberla Lawson Roby | |||
2016 | Stand Your Ground | Victoria Christopher Murray | Winner | [23][24] |
Driving the King | Ravi Howard | Finalist | [23] | |
Ghost Summer: Stories | Tananarive Due | |||
Mama's Boy | ReShonda Tate Billingsley | |||
Under the Udala Trees | Chinelo Okparanta | |||
2017 | The Book of Harlan | Bernice McFadden | Winner | [25] |
Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson | Finalist | [25] | |
The Illegal | Lawrence Hill | |||
The Mother | Yvvette Edwards | |||
The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | |||
2018 | The Annotated African American Folktales | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Tatar | Winner | [26] |
Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | Finalist | [26] | |
No One Is Coming to Save Us | Stephanie Powell Watts | |||
Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | |||
The Wide Circumference of Love | Marita Golden | |||
2019 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | Winner | [27] |
Better Late Than Never | Kimberla Lawson Roby | Finalist | [27] | |
Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? Prose Novel | Jesse James Holland, Jr. | |||
Envy | Victoria Christopher Murray | |||
They Come in All Colors | Malcolm Hansen |
2020s
Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
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2020 | The Revisioners | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | Winner | [28] |
New Daughters of Africa | Margaret Busby | Finalist | [28] | |
Out of Darkness, Shining Light | Petina Gappah | |||
Red at the Bone | Jacqueline Woodson | |||
The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |||
2021 | The Awkward Black Man | Walter Mosley | Winner | [29] |
Lakewood | Megan Giddings | Finalist | [30] | |
The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett | |||
Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi | |||
Black Bottom Saints | Alice Randall | |||
2022 | Long Division | Kiese Laymon | Winner | [31][32] |
Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead | Finalist | [31] | |
Libertie | Kaitlyn Greenidge | |||
The Man Who Lived Underground | Richard Wright | |||
The Perishing | Natashia Deón | |||
2023 | Take My Hand | Dolen Perkins-Valdez | Winner | [33] |
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction – Sheree Renée Thomas (Macmillan) | Natashia Deón | Finalist | [34] | |
Light Skin Gone to Waste | Toni Ann Johnson | |||
The Keeper | Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | |||
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty | Akwaeke Emezi | |||
2024 | Family Lore | Elizabeth Acevedo | Winner | [35] |
Everything Is Not Enough | Lola Akinmade Åkerström | Finalist | [36] | |
House of Eve | Sadeqa Johnson | |||
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | |||
Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward |
Multiple wins and nominations
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References
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