Literature Nominees
Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
A Taste of Honey
Jabari Asim
Broadway BooksGetting to Happy
Terry McMillan
Penguin GroupGlorious
Bernice L. McFadden
Akashic BooksTill You Hear From Me
Pearl Cleage
Ballantine Books/One WorldWench
Dolen Perkins
AmistadOutstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
Tom Burrell
SmileyBooksHands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
Editors: Faith S. Holsaert, Judy Richardson, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, Dorothy M. Zellner
University of Illinois PressSurviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History
Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Last Word Productions, Inc.The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
W.W. Norton & CompanyThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The New PressOutstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
AmistadThe Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Heidi Durrow
Algonquin Books of Chapel HillThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Random HouseBeneath the Lion's Gaze
Maaza Mengiste
W.W. Norton & CompanyForest Gate
Peter Akinti
Free Press/Simon & SchusterOutstanding Literary Work - Biography/Auto-Bography
Conversations with Myself
Ruth Hobday, Nelson Mandela
Farrar, Straus and GirouxDecoded
Jay-Z
Spiegel & Gran, a division of Random HouseExtraordinary, Ordinary People
Condoleezza Rice
Crown ArchetypeI'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen - My Journey Home
Shoshana Johnson, Mary Doyle
Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & SchusterYou Don't Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson, Jr., Mary Jane Ross
CrownOutstanding Literary Work - Instructional
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life
Antwone Fisher
Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & SchusterDiet-Free for Life: A Revolutionary Food, Fitness and Mindset Makeover to Maximize Fat Loss
Robert Ferguson
Penguin Group USA, Perigee HardcoverIf it Takes a Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and 100+ Ways You Can Too
Malaak Compton-Rock
Crown ArchetypeThe Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms
Kirk Franklin
Gotham BooksThe Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women
Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda McLean, Marsha Haygood
Ballantine Books/One WorldOutstanding Literary Work - Poetry
100 Best African-American Poems
Nikki Giovanni
Sourcebooks MediaFusionHard Times Require Furious Dancing
Alice Walker (Author), Shiloh McCloud (Illustrator)
New World LibraryHolding Company
Major Jackson
W.W. Norton & CompanySuck on the Marrow
Camille T. Dungy
Red Hen PressWhite Egrets
Derek Walcott
Farrar, Straus and GirouxOutstanding Literary Work - Children
Grandma's Gift
Eric Velasquez
Bloomsbury USA Children's BooksMama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya
Donna Jo Napoli (Author), Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingMy Brother Charlie
Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Authors), Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Scholastic PressSide by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
Monica Brown (Author), Joe Cepeda (Illustrator)
Harper Collins Children's BooksThe Great Migration: Journey to the North
Eloise Greenfield (Author), Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)
Harper Collins Children's BooksOutstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
