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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 edit

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1990s edit

Year Book Author Ref
1996 Children of the Dust Clancy Carlile [1]
1999
Mama Flora's Family Alex Haley and David Stevens [2]

2000s edit

Year Book Author Ref
2001 For the Love of Money Omar Tyree
2002 A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan [3]
2003
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea Nikki Giovanni [4][5]
A Love of My Own E. Lynn Harris
The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter
Thieves' Paradise Eric Jerome Dickey
The Bondswoman's Narrative Hannah Crafts; Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor
2004 Love Toni Morrison [6]
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni [6]
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 [7]
2006
Breaking the Cycle Zane [8]
72 Hour Hold Bebe Moore Campbell [8]
Cinnamon Kiss Walter Mosley
Fledgling Octavia E. Butler
Genevieve Eric Jerome Dickey
2007 Baby Brother's Blues Pearl Cleage [9]
After: A Novel Marita Golden [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 [10]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz [10]
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 [11][12]
Blood Colony Tananarive Due [11][12]
Going Down South Bonnie Glover
Just Too Good to Be True E. Lynn Harris
Song Yet Sung James McBride

2010s edit

Year Book Author Ref
2010
The Long Fall Walter Mosley [13]
Basketball Jones E. Lynn Harrisf [13]
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 [14]
A Taste of Honey Jabari Asim [14]
Glorious Bernice L. McFadden
Till You Hear from Me Pearl Cleage
Wench Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2012 Say Amen, Again ReShonda Tate Billingsley [15]
Boundaries Elizabeth Nunez [15]
A Silken Thread Brenda Jackson
Silver Sparrow Tayari Jones
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel Nelson George
2013 The Reverend's Wife Kimberla Lawson Roby [16]
Destiny's Divas Victoria Christopher Murray [16]
The Secret She Kept ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Silent Cry Dywane Birch
A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins
2014 Anybody's Daughter Pamela Samuels Young [17]
A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story Sister Souljah [17]
Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley
Never Say Never: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan
2015 A Wanted Woman Eric Jerome Dickey [18]
An Untamed State Roxane Gay [18]
Another Woman’s Man Shelly Ellis
Momma: Gone Nina Foxx
The Prodigal Son Kimberla Lawson Roby
2016
Stand Your Ground Victoria Christopher Murray [19]
Driving the King Ravi Howard
Ghost Summer: Stories Tananarive Due
Mama's Boy ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta
2017 The Book of Harlan Bernice McFadden [20]
Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson [20]
The Illegal Lawrence Hill
The Mother Yvvette Edwards
The Underground Railroad: A Novel Colson Whitehead
2018 The Annotated African American Folktales Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar [21]
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng [21]
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 [22]
Better Late Than Never Kimberla Lawson Roby [22]
Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? Prose Novel Jesse James Holland Jr
Envy Victoria Christopher Murray
They Come in All Colors: A Novel Malcolm Hansen

2020s edit

Year Book Author Ref
2020 The Revisioners Margaret Wilkerson Sexton [23]
New Daughters of Africa Margaret Busby [23]
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 [24]
Lakewood Megan Giddings [24]
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett
Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi
Black Bottom Saints Alice Randall
2022 Long Division Kiese Laymon [25] [26]
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead [25] [26]
Libertie Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Man Who Lived Underground Richard Wright
The Perishing Natashia Deón
2023
Family Lore Elizabeth Acevedo [27]
Everything Is Not Enough Lola Akinmade Åkerström
House of Eve Sadeqa Johnson
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store James McBride
Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward

Multiple wins and nominations edit

Wins edit

Nominations edit

References edit

  1. ^ "1996 Image Awards". LA Times. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
  2. ^ "1999 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  3. ^ "2002 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  4. ^ "2003 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "2003 Image Award Nominees". blackfilx. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "2004 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  7. ^ "2005 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  8. ^ a b "2006 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  9. ^ a b "2007 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  10. ^ a b "2008 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  11. ^ a b Hall, Melissa Mia (2011). "Due, Tananarive". In Joshi, S. T. (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood. pp. 97–99. ISBN 9780313378348.
  12. ^ a b Due, Tananarive (15 February 2009). "An NAACP Image Award for IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT---and a complete list of winners!!!". Tananarive Due's Reading Circle. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  13. ^ a b "2010 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  14. ^ a b "2011 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  15. ^ a b Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Winners". ABC7. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  16. ^ a b Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  17. ^ a b Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  18. ^ a b Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  19. ^ "2016 Image Winners". Variety. 6 February 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  20. ^ a b Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  21. ^ a b "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  22. ^ a b Nakamura, Reid (2019-03-31). "NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  23. ^ a b "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. 22 February 2020.
  24. ^ a b "2021 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  25. ^ a b https://www.forbes.com/sites/kemberliespivey/2022/01/18/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-the-full-list/?sh=4fa458a1590f
  26. ^ a b https://ew.com/awards/2022-naacp-image-awards-full-list-winners/
  27. ^ "Colman Domingo, Ayo Edebiri, Victoria Monét and Usher Lead NAACP Image Award Nominations". 25 January 2024.
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