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Celebrate Black History Month with these NAACP Image Award-winning and nominated books!

By Eric Kettunen
The most important works of literature from and for the Black Community in 2020, according to the NAACP
Out of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novel
1 Out of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novel
Petina Gappah
Red at the Bone
2 Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
The Water Dancer
3 The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Spy
4 American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
Such a Fun Age
5 Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
The Farm
6 The Farm
Joanne Ramos
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
7 New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Margaret Busby
The Revisioners: A Novel
8 The Revisioners: A Novel
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
9 Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Imani Perry
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
10 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
11 A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
DaMaris Hill
Felon: Poems
12 Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Honeyfish
13 Honeyfish
Lauren K. Alleyne
Mistress
14 Mistress
Chet’la Sebree
The Tradition
15 The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Around Harvard Square
16 Around Harvard Square
C. J. Farley
Hot Comb
17 Hot Comb
Ebony Flowers
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
18 I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
Kimberly Jones
The Forgotten Girl
19 The Forgotten Girl
India Hill Brown

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