NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
# 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

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

### 1990s

| Year | Book | Author |
| - | - | - |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Children of the Dust | Clancy Carlile |
| 1999 | | |
| 1999 | Mama Flora's Family | Alex Haley and David Stevens |

### 2000s

| Year | Book | Author |
| - | - | - |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | For the Love of Money | Omar Tyree |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Terry McMillan |
| 2003 | | |
| 2003 | Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea | Nikki Giovanni |
| 2003 | A Love of My Own | E. Lynn Harris |
| 2003 | The Emperor of Ocean Park | Stephen L. Carter |
| 2003 | Thieves' Paradise | Eric Jerome Dickey |
| 2003 | The Bondswoman's Narrative | Hannah Crafts; Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor |
| 2004 | | |
| 2004 | Love | Toni Morrison |
| 2004 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings | Alice Walker |
| 2004 | Diary of a Groupie | Omar Tyree |
| 2004 | The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni | Nikki Giovanni |
| 2004 | The Other Woman | Eric Jerome Dickey |
| 2005 | | |
| 2005 | Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Novel | Bishop T.D. Jakes |
| 2006 | | |
| 2006 | Breaking the Cycle | Zane |
| 2006 | 72 Hour Hold | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| 2006 | Fledgling | Octavia E. Butler |
| 2006 | Cinnamon Kiss | Walter Mosley |
| 2006 | Genevieve | Eric Jerome Dickey |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Baby Brother's Blues | Pearl Cleage |
| 2007 | After: A Novel | Marita Golden |
| 2007 | All Aunt Hagar's Children | Edward P. Jones |
| 2007 | Fortunate Son | Walter Mosley |
| 2007 | Wizard of the Crow | Ngugi wa Thiongo |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Blonde Faith | Walter Mosley |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz |
| 2008 | Cion | Zakes Mda |
| 2008 | Knots | Nuruddin Farah |
| 2008 | New England White | Stephen L. Carter |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | In the Night of the Heat | Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes |
| 2009 | Blood Colony | Tananarive Due |
| 2009 | Going Down South | Bonnie Glover |
| 2009 | Just Too Good to be True | E. Lynn Harris |
| 2009 | Song Yet Sung | James McBride |

### 2010s

| Year | Book | Author |
| - | - | - |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | The Long Fall | Walter Mosley |
| 2010 | Basketball Jones | E. Lynn Harris |
| 2010 | Before I Forget | Leonard Pitts |
| 2010 | Life is Short But Wide | J. California Cooper |
| 2010 | The Book of Night Women | Marlon James |
| 2011 | | |
| 2011 | Getting to Happy | Terry McMillan |
| 2011 | A Taste of Honey | Jabari Asim |
| 2011 | Glorious | Bernice L. McFadden |
| 2011 | Till You Hear from Me | Pearl Cleage |
| 2011 | Wench | Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Say Amen, Again | ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| 2012 | A Silken Thread | Brenda Jackson |
| 2012 | Boundaries | Elizabeth Nunez |
| 2012 | Silver Sparrow | Tayari Jones |
| 2012 | The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel | Nelson George |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | The Reverend's Wife | Kimberla Lawson Roby |
| 2013 | A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel | Beverly Jenkins |
| 2013 | Destiny's Divas | Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2013 | Silent Cry | Dywane Birch |
| 2013 | The Secret She Kept | ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Anybody's Daughter | Pamela Samuels Young |
| 2014 | A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story | Sister Souljah |
| 2014 | Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery | Walter Mosley |
| 2014 | Never Say Never: A Novel | Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2014 | Who Asked You? | Terry McMillan |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | A Wanted Woman | Eric Jerome Dickey |
| 2015 | An Untamed State | Roxane Gay |
| 2015 | Another Woman’s Man | Shelly Ellis |
| 2015 | Momma: Gone | Nina Foxx |
| 2015 | The Prodigal Son | Kimberla Lawson Roby |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Stand Your Ground | Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2016 | Driving the King | Ravi Howard |
| 2016 | Ghost Summer: Stories | Tananarive Due |
| 2016 | Mama's Boy | ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| 2016 | Under the Udala Trees | Chinelo Okparanta |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | The Book of Harlan | Bernice L. McFadden |
| 2017 | Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2017 | The Illegal | Lawrence Hill |
| 2017 | The Mother | Yvvette Edwards |
| 2017 | The Underground Railroad: A Novel | Colson Whitehead |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | The Annotated African American Folktales | Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar |
| 2018 | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng |
| 2018 | No One Is Coming To Save Us | Stephanie Powell Watts |
| 2018 | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
| 2018 | The Wide Circumference of Love | Marita Golden |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones |
| 2019 | Better Late Than Never | Kimberla Lawson Roby |
| 2019 | Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? Prose Novel | Jesse James Holland Jr |
| 2019 | Envy | Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 2019 | They Come in All Colors: A Novel | Malcolm Hansen |

### 2020s

| Year | Book | Author |
| - | - | - |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | The Revisioners | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton |
| 2020 | New Daughters of Africa | Margaret Busby |
| 2020 | Out of Darkness, Shining Light | Petina Gappah |
| 2020 | Red at the Bone | Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2020 | The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | The Awkward Black Man | Walter Mosley |
| 2021 | The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
| 2021 | Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi |
| 2021 | Lakewood | Megan Giddings |
| 2021 | Black Bottom Saints | Alice Randall |
