NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction Nonfiction literary award from the NAACP
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction . Maya Angelou , Michael Eric Dyson , and Barack Obama hold the record for most wins in this category, with two each.
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
2010s
Award winners, 2010-2019[ 13]
Year
Book
Author
Result
Ref.
2010
In Search of Our Roots
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Winner
[ 14]
Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum
Cynthia Carter
Finalist
[ 15]
Our Choice
Al Gore
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles
Arnold Mann and Keith Black
Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today
Gil L. Robertson
2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Winner
[ 16]
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
Tom Burrell
Finalist
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
Faith S. Holsaert
Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History
Julianne Malveaux
The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
2012
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place
Hill Harper
Winner
[ 17]
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Melissa Harris-Perry
Finalist
[ 17]
Super Rich
Russell Simmons
The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Elijah Anderson
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
Touré
2013
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin
Winner
[ 18]
Fraternity
Diane Brady
Finalist
[ 18] [ 19]
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
Deborah Davis
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
Connie Rice
The Courage to Hope
Shirley Sherrod
2014
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
Winner
[ 20]
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
Retha Powers
Finalist
[ 20]
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
Carl Hart
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
Hill Harper
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone
2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Winner
[ 21]
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
Finalist
[ 21]
Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Sheryll Cashin
Who We Be: The Colorization of America
Jeff Chang
2016
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
Pamela Newkirk
Winner
[ 22]
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman
Finalist
[ 22]
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Jill Leovy
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Wil Haygood
The Light of the World
Elizabeth Alexander
2017
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
Winner
[ 23]
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Eddie S. Glaude
Finalist
[ 23]
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
2018
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Dick Gregory (posthumous)
Winner
[ 24]
Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination
Herb Boyd
Finalist
[ 24]
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Paul Butler
The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
Adrian Miller
We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics
Donna Brazile , Yolanda Caraway, Leah D. Daughtry , Minyon Moore , Veronica Chambers
Winner
[ 25]
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston
Finalist
[ 25]
Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth
Beverly Bond
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Imani Perry
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin
2020s
Award winners, 2020-present[ 13]
Year
Book
Author
Result
Ref.
2020
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison
Winner
[ 26]
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Imani Perry
Finalist
[ 26]
STONY THE ROAD: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essay
Damon Young
2021
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Winner
[ 27]
A Black Women's History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Finalist
[ 28]
Driving While Black
Gretchen Sorin
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson
We're Better Than This
Elijah Cummings
2022
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Winner
[ 29] [ 30]
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel
Finalist
[ 30]
Just As I Am
Cicely Tyson
My Remarkable Journey
Katherine Johnson
Renegades: Born in the USA
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
2023
Finding Me
Viola Davis
Winner
[ 31]
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Cody Keenan
Finalist
[ 32]
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Linda Villarosa
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
RJ Young
2024
The New Brownies’ Book
Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer
Winner
[ 33]
Black AF History: The Un–Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot
Finalist
[ 34]
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
Zaria Ware
Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers
Black Interior Designers and June Reese
The Art of Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter
Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
2 wins
Nominations
5 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
References
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1990s
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of 'Malcolm X – Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley (1993)
No Award (1994)
When We Were Colored – Clifton Taulbert (1995)
No Award (1996)
No Award (1997)
With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together – Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (1998)
No Award (1999)
2000s 2010s 2020s
Motion picture Television
Music Literature Special awards Defunct awards Award ceremonies (year honored)