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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]

1990s[edit]

Award winners: 1996, 1999
Year Book Author Result Ref.
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[edit]

Award winners and finalists, 2001-2009
Year Book Author Result Ref.
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[edit]

Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019[14]
Year Book Author Result Ref.
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[edit]

Award winners and finalists, 2020-present[14]
Year Book Author Result Ref.
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[edit]

Wins[edit]

Nominations[edit]

References[edit]

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