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

1990s

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|+Award winners: 1996, 1999

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!1996

| Children of the Dust

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! rowspan="2" | 1999

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| Mama Flora's Family

| and David Stevens

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2000s

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|+Award winners and finalists, 2001–2009

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!2001

| For the Love of Money

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!2002

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! rowspan="5" |2003

| Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

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|Thieves' Paradise

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|, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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! rowspan="5" |2004

| Love

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! rowspan="5" |2006

| Breaking the Cycle

| Zane

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| 72 Hour Hold

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| Cinnamon Kiss

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| Fledgling

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| Genevieve

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! rowspan="5" |2007

| Baby Brother's Blues

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| All Aunt Hagar's Children

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| Fortunate Son

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| Wizard of the Crow

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! rowspan="5" |2008

| Blonde Faith

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| Cion

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| Knots

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| New England White

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! rowspan="5" |2009

| In the Night of the Heat

| , Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes

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| Blood Colony

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| Going Down South

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| Just Too Good to Be True

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| Song Yet Sung

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2010s

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|+Award winners and finalists, 2010–2019

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! rowspan="5" |2010

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| Basketball Jones

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| Before I Forget

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| Life Is Short But Wide

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! rowspan="5" |2011

| Getting to Happy

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| Glorious

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| Till You Hear from Me

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| Wench

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! rowspan="5" |2012

| Say Amen, Again

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| Boundaries

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Destiny's Divas

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Silent Cry

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! rowspan="5" |2014

| Anybody's Daughter

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Driving the King

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Another Brooklyn

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Little Fires Everywhere

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Better Late Than Never

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| New Daughters of Africa

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Lakewood

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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| Riot Baby

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| Black Bottom Saints

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! rowspan="5" |2022

| Long Division

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| Harlem Shuffle

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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|Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

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| rowspan="4" |Finalist

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|Light Skin Gone to Waste

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| and Steven Barnes

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|You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

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! rowspan="5" |2024

|Family Lore

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|Winner

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|Everything Is Not Enough

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|House of Eve

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|Let Us Descend

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! rowspan=5 | 2025

| One of Us Knows: A Thriller

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| Can't Get Enough

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