NAACP Image Awards Literature Nominees

NAACP Image awards Literature nominees

Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

• “Another Brooklyn” – Jacqueline Woodson (HarperCollins /Amistad)
• “The Book of Harlan” – Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books)
• “The Illegal” – Lawrence Hill (W. W. Norton & Company)
• “The Mother” – Yvvette Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers / Amistad)
• “The Underground Railroad: A Novel” – Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction

• “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul” – Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Crown / The Crown Publishing Group)
• “Freedom is a Constant Struggle” – Angela Y. Davis (Author), Cornel West (Foreword), (Haymarket Books)
• “Hidden Figures” – Margot Lee Shetterly (HarperCollins Publishers / William Morrow)
• “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” – Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books)
• “Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Author), Raymond Obstfeld (Author), (Time Inc. Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

• “Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” – Trevor Noah (Random House)
• “Carry On” – Lisa Fenn (HarperCollins Publishers / Harper Wave)
• “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court” – Dr. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (Stanford University Press )
• “Grace: A Novel” – Natashia Deón (Counterpoint Press)
• “United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good” – Cory Booker (Ballantine Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/ Auto-Biography

• “Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America” – Nathaniel Jones (The New Press)
• “Around the Way Girl: A Memoir” – Taraji P. Henson with Denene Millner (37 Ink/Atria Books)
• “Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” – Trevor Noah (Random House)
• “Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, A Young Black Man’s Education” – Mychal Denzel Smith (Nation Books)
• “My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire” – Herb Powell (Author), Maurice White (Author), Steve Harvey (Foreword), David Foster (Foreword), (HarperCollins Publishers / Amistad)

Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional

• “Green Smoothies for Life” – JJ Smith (Atria Books)
• “LA Reid Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next” – LA Reid (Harper Collins)
• “Running the Long Race in Gifted Education: Narratives and Interviews from Culturally Diverse Gifted Adults” – Joy M. Scott-Carrol (Author), Anthony Sparks (Author), Diana Slaughter Kotzin (Foreword), (IGET-Network Press/Book Publisher’s Network)
• “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World ” – The Dalai Lama (Author), Desmond Tutu (Author), Douglas Abrams (With), (Avery)
• “The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage” – Daymond John (Author), Daniel Paisner (With), (Crown Business / The Crown Publishing Group)

Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

• “Collected Poems: 1974 — 2004” – Rita Dove (W. W. Norton & Company)
• “Counting Descent” – Clint Smith (Write Bloody Publishing)
• “The Big Book of Exit Strategies” – Jamaal May (Alice James Books)
• “The Sobbing School” – Joshua Bennett (Penguin Books)
• “Thief in the Interior” – Phillip B. Williams (Alice James Books)

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