NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

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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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