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 1996 Children of the Dust Winner 1999 Mama Flora's Family and David StevensWinner
2000s +Award winners and finalists, 2001–2009 Year Book Author Result 2001 For the Love of Money Winner2002 Winner 2003 Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea Winner FinalistThieves' Paradise, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2004 Love Winner Finalist Diary of a Groupie 2005 Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Novel Winner 2006 Breaking the Cycle ZaneWinner 72 Hour Hold Finalist Cinnamon Kiss Fledgling Genevieve 2007 Baby Brother's Blues Winner After Finalist All Aunt Hagar's Children Fortunate Son Wizard of the Crow 2008 Blonde Faith Winner Finalist Cion Knots New England White 2009 In the Night of the Heat , Tananarive Due, and Steven BarnesWinner Blood Colony Finalist Going Down South Just Too Good to Be True Song Yet Sung
2010s +Award winners and finalists, 2010–2019 Year Book Author Result 2010 Winner Basketball Jones Finalist Before I Forget Life Is Short But Wide 2011 Getting to Happy Winner Finalist Glorious Till You Hear from Me Wench 2012 Say Amen, Again Winner Boundaries Finalist Silver Sparrow 2013 Winner Destiny's Divas Finalist Silent Cry 2014 Anybody's Daughter Winner Finalist Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Never Say Never Who Asked You? 2015 Winner Finalist Another Woman’s Man Momma: Gone 2016 Stand Your Ground Winner Driving the King Finalist Ghost Summer: Stories Mama's Boy Under the Udala Trees 2017 Winner Another Brooklyn Finalist 2018 and Maria TatarWinner Little Fires Everywhere Finalist No One Is Coming to Save Us Sing, Unburied, Sing 2019 Winner Better Late Than Never Finalist Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther? Prose Novel Envy They Come in All Colors
2020s +Award winners and finalists, 2020–present Year Book Author Result 2020 Winner New Daughters of Africa Finalist Out of Darkness, Shining Light Red at the Bone 2021 Winner Lakewood Finalist Riot Baby Black Bottom Saints 2022 Long Division Winner Harlem Shuffle Finalist Libertie 2023Take My HandWinnerAfrica Risen: A New Era of Speculative FictionFinalistLight Skin Gone to Waste and Steven BarnesYou Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty2024Family LoreWinnerEverything Is Not EnoughFinalistHouse of EveLet Us Descend 2025 One of Us Knows: A Thriller Winner Finalist Grown Woman Neighbors and Other Stories What You Leave Behind 2026 Death of the Author Winner Can't Get Enough Finalist Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic Happy Land Harlem Rhapsody
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
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