NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

Template:Short description 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

1990s

Award winners: 1996, 1999

Year	Book	Author	Result	Template:Abbreviation
1996	Children of the Dust	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1999
	Mama Flora's Family	Template:Sortname and David Stevens	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed

2000s

Award winners and finalists, 2001–2009

Year	Book	Author	Result	Template:Abbreviation
2001	For the Love of Money	Template:Sortname	Winner
2002	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed
2003	Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed
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	Thieves' Paradise	Template:Sortname
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2004	Love	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed
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	Diary of a Groupie	Template:Sortname
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2005	Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Novel	Template:Sortname	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed
2006	Breaking the Cycle	Zane	Winner
	72 Hour Hold	Template:Sortname	Finalist
	Cinnamon Kiss	Template:Sortname
	Fledgling	Template:Sortname
	Genevieve	Template:Sortname
2007	Baby Brother's Blues	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2007 Image Awards2" />
	After	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name="2007 Image Awards2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	All Aunt Hagar's Children	Template:Sortname
	Fortunate Son	Template:Sortname
	Wizard of the Crow	Template:Sortname
2008	Blonde Faith	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Cion	Template:Sortname
	Knots	Template:Sortname
	New England White	Template:Sortname
2009	In the Night of the Heat	Template:Sortname, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes	Winner	<ref name=":4">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
	Blood Colony	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Going Down South	Template:Sortname
	Just Too Good to Be True	Template:Sortname
	Song Yet Sung	Template:Sortname

2010s

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Year	Book	Author	Result	Template:Abbreviation
2010	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Basketball Jones	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Before I Forget	Template:Sortname
	Life Is Short But Wide	Template:Sortname
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2011	Getting to Happy	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Glorious	Template:Sortname
	Till You Hear from Me	Template:Sortname
	Wench	Template:Sortname
2012	Say Amen, Again	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2012 Image Award Winners2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Boundaries	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name="2012 Image Award Winners2" />
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	Silver Sparrow	Template:Sortname
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2013	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2013 Image Award Winners2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Destiny's Divas	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name="2013 Image Award Winners2" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Silent Cry	Template:Sortname
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2014	Anybody's Daughter	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2014 Image Award Winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery	Template:Sortname
	Never Say Never	Template:Sortname
	Who Asked You?	Template:Sortname
2015	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2015 Image Award Winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Another Woman’s Man	Template:Sortname
	Momma: Gone	Template:Sortname
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2016	Stand Your Ground	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2016 Image Award Winners2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Driving the King	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name="2016 Image Award Winners2" />
	Ghost Summer: Stories	Template:Sortname
	Mama's Boy	Template:Sortname
	Under the Udala Trees	Template:Sortname
2017	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name="2017 Image Award Winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Another Brooklyn	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name="2017 Image Award Winners" />
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2018	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Maria Tatar	Winner	<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Little Fires Everywhere	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name=":2" />
	No One Is Coming to Save Us	Template:Sortname
	Sing, Unburied, Sing	Template:Sortname
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2019	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name=":22">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Better Late Than Never	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name=":22" />
	Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther? Prose Novel	Template:Sortname
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	They Come in All Colors	Template:Sortname

2020s

Award winners and finalists, 2020–present<ref name=":10" />

Year	Book	Author	Result	Template:Abbreviation
2020	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name=":7">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	New Daughters of Africa	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name=":7" />
	Out of Darkness, Shining Light	Template:Sortname
	Red at the Bone	Template:Sortname
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2021	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Lakewood	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Riot Baby	Template:Sortname
	Black Bottom Saints	Template:Sortname
2022	Long Division	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Harlem Shuffle	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref name=":0" />
	Libertie	Template:Sortname
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2023	Take My Hand	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Light Skin Gone to Waste	Template:Sortname
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	You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty	Template:Sortname
2024	Family Lore	Template:Sortname	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Everything Is Not Enough	Template:Sortname	Finalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	House of Eve	Template:Sortname
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	Let Us Descend	Template:Sortname

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

3 wins

• Walter Mosley

2 wins

• Terry McMillan

Nominations

5 nominations

• ReShonda Tate Billingsley

4 nominations

• Walter Mosley

3 nominations

• Eric Jerome Dickey
• Terry McMillan

2 nominations

• Pearl Cleage
• Nikki Giovanni
• Bernice L. McFadden
• Victoria Christopher Murray
• Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Omar Tyree