Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

|+Contemplative fiction winners{{Cite web |title=The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award |url=https://aalbc.com/books/hw-award-winning-books.php |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=African American Literature Book Club |language=en |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331061640/https://aalbc.com/books/hw-award-winning-books.php |url-status=live }}

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|+Debut fiction winners

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|+General fiction winners

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|+Speculative fiction winners

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|+General nonfiction winners

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|+Historical/Social/Political nonfiction winners

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|+Memoir/Biography winners

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|+Poetry winners

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|Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems

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|+Contemporary fiction winners, finalists, and nominees

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! rowspan="4" |2005

|{{sortname|last=Price-Thompson|first=Tracy}}

|{{sort|Woman's Worth|A Woman's Worth}}

|Winner

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|Bling

|Nominee

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|Shifting Through Neutral

|Nominee

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|Love on the Dotted Line

|Nominee

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! rowspan="2" |2006

|{{sortname|last=Ford|first=Clyde W.}}

|{{sort|Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries|The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries}}

|Winner

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|Who Does She Think She Is?

|Nominee

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|+Debut fiction winners, finalists, and nominees

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! rowspan="6" |2002

|{{sortname|last=Durham|first=David Anthony}}

|Gabriel's Story

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Haulsey|first=Kuwana}}

|{{sort|Red Moon|The Red Moon}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Palmer|first=Joyce}}

|Greenwichtown

|Finalist

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|Breathing Room

|Nominee

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|Break Any Woman Down

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Dying Ground|The Dying Ground}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2003

|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Tayari}}

|Leaving Atlanta

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Bailey-Williams|first=Nicole}}

|{{sort|Little Piece Of Sky|A Little Piece Of Sky}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Lockhart|first=Zelda}}

|Fifth Born

|Finalist

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|River Woman

|Nominee

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|Gigantic

|Nominee

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|Song of the Water Saints

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2004

|{{sortname|last=Adichie|first=Chimamanda Ngozi}}

|Purple Hibiscus

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Allen|first=Stephanie|nolink=1}}

|{{sort|Place Between Stations|A Place Between Stations}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Reynolds|first=April}}

|Knee-Deep in Wonder

|Finalist

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|Daughter

|Nominee

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|Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

|Nominee

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|Getting Mother's Body

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2005

|{{sortname|last=Abani|first=Chris}}

|GraceLand

|Winner

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|{{sort|Second Life of Samuel Tyne|The Second Life of Samuel Tyne}}

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Darkest Child|The Darkest Child}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2006

|{{sortname|last=Nicholas|first=Denise}}

|Freshwater Road

|Winner

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|Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe

|Nominee

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|Upstate

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2007

|{{sortname|last=Forna|first=Aminatta}}

|Ancestor Stones

|Winner

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|Unburnable

|Nominee

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|Get Down: Stories

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2008

|{{sortname|last=Dawes|first=Kwame}}

|She's Gone

|Winner

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|Like Trees, Walking

|Nominee

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|Them

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2016

|{{sortname|last=Faye|first=Sanderia}}

|Mourner's Bench

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|{{sort|Star Side of Bird Hill|The Star Side of Bird Hill}}

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Fishermen|The Fishermen}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2017

|{{sortname|last=Wilson|first=JJ Amaworo}}

|Damnificados

|Winner

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|Blackass

|Nominee

|{{Cite web |title=John Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, and Carla Hayden to Receive 2017 Legacy Awards |url=https://www.hurstonwright.org/ohn-lewis-haki-madhubuti-and-carla-hayden-to-receive-2017-legacy-awards/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=Hurston/Wright Foundation |archive-date=May 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510173646/https://www.hurstonwright.org/ohn-lewis-haki-madhubuti-and-carla-hayden-to-receive-2017-legacy-awards/ |url-status=live }}

|Born on a Tuesday

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2018

|{{sortname|last=Hubbard|first=Ladee}}

|{{sort|Talented Ribkins|The Talented Ribkins}}

|Winner

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|What We Lose

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Unkindness of Ghosts|An Unkindness of Ghosts}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="3" |2020

|{{sortname|last=Colvin|first=Jeffrey}}

|Africaville

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|Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar

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|As a River

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! rowspan="3" |2021

|{{sortname|last=Woods|first=Rita}}

|Remembrance

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|Black Sunday

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Coyotes of Carthage|The Coyotes of Carthage}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="4" |2022

|{{sortname|last=KunQuest|first=Quntos}}

|This Life

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|{{sort|House of Rust|The House of Rust}}

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|Young Blood

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Final Revival of Opal and Nev|The Final Revival of Opal and Nev}}

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! rowspan="3" |2023

|{{sortname|last=Hadero|first=Meron}}

|{{Sort|Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories|A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories}}

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|Nightcrawling

|Nominee

|{{Cite web |last=Ali-Coleman |first=Khadijah Z. |date=2023-06-28 |title=2023 Legacy Awards Nominees |url=https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardsnominees/index.html |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=Hurston/Wright Foundation |archive-date=April 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429175058/https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardsnominees/index.html |url-status=live }}

|Finding La Negrita

|Nominee

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|+Fiction winners, finalists, and nominees

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! rowspan="6" |2002

|{{sortname|last=Everett|first=Percival}}

|Erasure

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|{{sortname|last=Clair|first=Maxine}}

|October Suite

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|{{sortname|last=Grooms|first=Anthony}}

|Bombingham

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|{{sort|Warmest December|The Warmest December}}

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|He Sleeps

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|Fearless Jones

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! rowspan="6" |2003

|{{sortname|last=Mda|first=Zakes}}

|{{sort|Heart of Redness|The Heart of Redness}}

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|{{sortname|last=Lavalle|first=Victor}}

|{{sort|Ecstatic|The Ecstatic}}

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|{{sortname|last=Rhodes|first=Jewell Parker}}

|Douglass' Women

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|Discretion

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|Without a Name and Under the Tongue

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|Water Street

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! rowspan="6" |2004

|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Mat}}

|Hunting in Harlem

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|{{sortname|last=Clarke|first=Austin|dab=novelist}}

|{{sort|Polished Hoe|The Polished Hoe}}

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|{{sortname|last=Phillips|first=Caryl}}

|{{sort|Distant Shore|A Distant Shore}}

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|Hottentot Venus

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|{{sort|Salt Roads|The Salt Roads}}

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|{{sort|Known World|The Known World}}

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! rowspan="6" |2005

|{{sortname|last=Condé|first=Maryse}}

|Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?

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|{{sortname|last=Danticat|first=Edwige}}

|{{sort|Dew Breaker|The Dew Breaker}}

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|{{sortname|last=Mda|first=Zakes}}

|{{sort|Madonna of Excelsior|The Madonna of Excelsior}}

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|American Desert

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|Links

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|{{sort|Man in My Basement|The Man in My Basement}}

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! rowspan="6" |2006

|{{sortname|last=Rawles|first=Nancy}}

|My Jim

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Durham|first=David Anthony}}

|Pride of Carthage

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Tayari}}

|{{sort|Untelling|The Untelling}}

|Finalist

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|Joplin's Ghost

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|Dancing in the Dark

|Nominee

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|Third Girl from the Left

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2007

|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Edward P.}}

|All Aunt Hagar's Children

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Adichie|first=Chimamanda Ngozi}}

|Half of a Yellow Sun

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Baker|first=Calvin}}

|Dominion

|Finalist

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|Nowhere Is a Place

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|Jump at the Sun

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|Wizard of the Crow

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2008

|{{sortname|last=Díaz|first=Junot}}

|{{sort|Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao|The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao}}

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Condé|first=Maryse}}

|{{sort|Story of the Cannibal Woman|The Story of the Cannibal Woman}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Hill|first=Lawrence}}

|Someone Knows My Name

|Finalist

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|{{sort|Guyanese Wander|The Guyanese Wander}}

|Nominee

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|Measuring Time

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Opposite House|The Opposite House}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2009

|{{sortname|last=Akpan|first=Uwem}}

|Say You're One of Them

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|{{sortname|last=Allen|first=Jeffery Renard}}

|Holding Pattern: Stories

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Ward|first=Jesmyn}}

|Where the Line Bleeds

|Finalist

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|Stand the Storm

|Nominee

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|Blood Colony

|Nominee

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|Song Yet Sung

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2010

|{{sortname|last=Everett|first=Percival}}

|I Am Not Sidney Poitier

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Evaristo|first=Bernardine}}

|Blonde Roots

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Whitehead|first=Colson}}

|Sag Harbor

|Finalist

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|{{sort|Trial of Robert Mugabe|The Trial of Robert Mugabe}}

|Nominee

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|Big Machine

|Nominee

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|Black Water Rising

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2011

|{{sortname|last=Evans|first=Danielle|link=Danielle Valore Evans}}

|Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=McFadden|first=Bernice L.}}

|Glorious

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Perkins-Valdez|first=Dolen}}

|Wench

|Finalist

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|How to Read the Air

|Nominee

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|Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans

|Nominee

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|How to Escape from a Leper Colony

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2012

|{{sortname|last=Oyeyemi|first=Helen}}

|Mr. Fox

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Tayari}}

|Silver Sparrow

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Whitehead|first=Colson}}

|Zone One

|Finalist

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|Crossbones

|Nominee

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|You Are Free

|Nominee

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|Salvage the Bones

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2013

|{{sortname|last=Edugyan|first=Esi}}

|Half-Blood Blues

|Winner

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|{{sort|Cupboard Full of Coats|A Cupboard Full of Coats}}

|Nominee

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|Elsewhere, California

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Cutting Season|The Cutting Season}}

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Twelve Tribes of Hattie|The Twelve Tribes of Hattie}}

|Nominee

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|Gathering of Waters

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2014

|{{sortname|last=Bulawayo|first=NoViolet}}

|We Need New Names

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Jackson|first=Mitchell S.}}

|{{sort|Residue Years|The Residue Years}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Kincaid|first=Jamaica}}

|See Now Then

|Finalist

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|Every Boy Should Have a Man

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Good Lord Bird|The Good Lord Bird}}

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Gospel According to Cane|The Gospel According to Cane}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2015

|{{sortname|last=Lalami|first=Laila}}

|{{sort|Moor's Account|The Moor's Account}}

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Gay|first=Roxane}}

|{{Sort|Untamed State, An|An Untamed State}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Yanique|first=Tiphanie}}

|Land of Love and Drowning

|Finalist

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|{{sort|Secret History of Las Vegas|The Secret History of Las Vegas}}

|Nominee

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|Radiance of Tomorrow

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Orchard of Lost Souls|The Orchard of Lost Souls}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2016

|{{sortname|last=Hannaham|first=James}}

|Delicious Foods

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Flournoy|first=Angela}}

|{{sort|Turner House|The Turner House}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Phillips|first=Caryl}}

|{{sort|Lost Child|The Lost Child}}

|Finalist

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|{{sort|Sellout|The Sellout}}

|Nominee

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|Welcome to Braggsville

|Nominee

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|Under the Udala Trees

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2017

|{{sortname|last=Whitehead|first=Colson}}

|{{sort|Underground Railroad|The Underground Railroad}}

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Gautier|first=Amina}}

|{{sort|Loss of All Lost Things|The Loss of All Lost Things}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Woodson|first=Jacqueline}}

|Another Brooklyn

|Finalist

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|{{sort|Mother|The Mother}}

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Book of Harlan|The Book of Harlan}}

|Nominee

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|Swing Time

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2018

|{{sortname|last=Mabanckou|first=Alain}}

|Black Moses

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Omotoso|first=Yewande}}

|{{sort|Woman Next Door|The Woman Next Door}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Ward|first=Jesmyn}}

|Sing, Unburied, Sing

|Finalist

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|What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Tragedy of Brady Sims|The Tragedy of Brady Sims}}

|Nominee

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|Dance of the Jakaranda

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2019

|{{sortname|last=Thompson-Spires|first=Nafissa}}

|Heads of the Colored People

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Wayétu}}

|She Would Be King

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Brinkley|first=Jamel}}

|{{sort|Lucky Man, A|A Lucky Man}}

|Finalist

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|Friday Black

|Nominee

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|Brother

|Nominee

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|Washington Black

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2020

|{{sortname|last=Forbes|first=Curdella}}

|{{sort|Tall History of Sugar, A|A Tall History of Sugar}}

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Scott|first=Rion Amilcar}}

|{{sort|World Doesn't Require You, The|The World Doesn't Require You}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Oyeyemi|first=Helen}}

|Gingerbread

|Finalist

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|Speaking of Summer

|Nominee

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|Patsy

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Revisioners, The|The Revisioners}}

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2021

|{{sortname|last=Everett|first=Percival}}

|Telephone

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Okri|first=Ben}}

|{{sort|Freedom Artist, The|The Freedom Artist}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Clark|first=P. Djèlí}}

|Ring Shout

|Finalist

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|These Bodies

|Nominee

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|Book of the Little Axe

|Nominee

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|Black Bottom Saints

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2022

|{{sortname|last=Everett|first=Percival}}

|{{sort|Trees, The|The Trees}}

|Winner

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|Rib King

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Perishing, The|The Perishing}}

|Nominee

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|Nazaré

|Nominee

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|Yellow Wife

|Nominee

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|Reconstruction: Stories

|Nominee

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! rowspan="5" |2023

|{{sortname|last=Hannaham|first=James}}

|Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

|Winner

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|Take My Hand

|Nominee

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|{{Sort|Islands, The|The Islands}}

|Nominee

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|People Person

|Nominee

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|Mother Country

|Nominee

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|+Speculative fiction winners and nominees

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! rowspan="3" |2023

|{{sortname|last=Huchu|first=T. L.}}

|Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

|Winner

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|Goliath

|Nominee

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|{{Sort|Last Dreamwalker, The|The Last Dreamwalker}}

|Nominee

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|+Nonfiction winners, finalists, and nominees

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! rowspan="6" |2002

|{{sortname|last=Wiwa|first=Ken}}

|In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Bundles|first=A'Lelia}}

|On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Jr.|first=Paul Robeson}}

|{{sort|Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898–1939|The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898–1939}}

|Finalist

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|Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story

|Nominee

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|Salvation: Black People and Love

|Nominee

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|Impossible Witnesses: Truths, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

|Nominee

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! rowspan="5" |2003

|{{sortname|last=McHenry|first=Elizabeth}}

|Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Holloway|first=Karla FC}}

|Passed On: African American Mourning Stories

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Merritt|first=Carole}}

|{{sort|Herndons: An Atlanta Family|The Herndons: An Atlanta Family}}

|Finalist

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|Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius

|Nominee

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|American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2004

|{{sortname|last=Haygood|first=Wil}}

|In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Duke|first=Lynne}}

|Mandela, Mobutu and Me

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=E. Patrick}}

|Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

|Finalist

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|Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

|Nominee

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|Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful

|Nominee

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|Somebody's Someone

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2005

|{{sortname|last=Veaux|first=Alexis De}}

|Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Dickerson|first=Debra J.}}

|{{sort|End of Blackness|The End of Blackness}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=French|first=Howard|link=Howard W. French}}

|{{sort|Continent for the Taking|A Continent for the Taking}}

|Finalist

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|{{sort|Black Interior|The Black Interior}}

|Nominee

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|{{sort|Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream|The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream}}

|Nominee

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|Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge

|Nominee

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! rowspan="6" |2006

|{{sortname|last=Franklin|first=John Hope}}

|Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Bogle|first=Donald}}

|Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Farrington|first=Lisa E.}}

|Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

|Finalist

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|My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

|Nominee

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|Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality

|Nominee

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|Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition

|Nominee

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! rowspan="7" |2007

|{{sortname|last=Maathai|first=Wangari}}

|Unbowed: A Memoir

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Chude-Sokei|first=Louis}}

|{{sort|Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora|The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora}}

|Finalist

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|{{sortname|last=Ragusa|first=Kym}}

|{{sort|Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging|The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging}}

|Finalist

|

|Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley

|Nominee

|

|BookMarks: Reading in Black and White

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America|The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America}}

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Architecture of Language|The Architecture of Language}}

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2008

|{{sortname|last=Danticat|first=Edwige}}

|Brother, I'm Dying

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Diouf|first=Sylviane A.}}

|Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Ifill|first=Sherrilyn}}

|On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century

|Finalist

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|Infidel

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why|The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why}}

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Deepest South: The United States, Brazil and the African Slave Trade|The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil and the African Slave Trade}}

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2009

|{{sortname|last=Wilderson|first=Frank B.}}

|Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Coates|first=Ta-Nehisi}}

|{{sort|Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood|The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood}}

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Giddings|first=Paula J.}}

|Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

|Finalist

|

|{{sort|Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African- American Family|The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African- American Family}}

|Nominee

|

|Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth- Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend

|Nominee

|

|Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2010

|{{sortname|last=Kelley|first=Robin}}

|Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=DeRamus|first=Betty}}

|Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Haygood|first=Wil}}

|Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

|Finalist

|

|{{sort|Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama|The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama}}

|Nominee

|

|Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial

|Nominee

|

|More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2011

|{{sortname|last=Wilkerson|first=Isabel}}

|{{sort|Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration|The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration}}

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Jackson|first=Lawrence}}

|{{sort|Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960|The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960}}

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Jr.|first=Rawn James}}

|Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

|Finalist

|

|Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority

|Nominee

|

|Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

|Nominee

|

|John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="5" |2012

|{{sortname|last=Brown-Nagin|first=Tomiko}}

|Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Rhodes-Pitts|first=Sharifa}}

|Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Wainaina|first=Binyavanga}}

|One Day I Will Write About This Place

|Finalist

|

|Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

|Nominee

|

|My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2013

|{{sortname|last=Harris|first=Fredrick}}

|{{sort|Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics|The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics}}

|Winner

|

|There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

|Nominee

|

|Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City

|Nominee

|

|Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free

|Nominee

|

|American Lynching

|Nominee

|

|Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2014

|{{sortname|last=Wilder|first=Craig}}

|Ebony & Ivory

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Crouch|first=Stanley}}

|Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Ward|first=Jesmyn}}

|Men We Reaped

|Finalist

|

|Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights|The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights}}

|Nominee

|

|Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2015

|{{sortname|last=Nunez|first=Elizabeth}}

|Not For Everyday Use

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Blow|first=Charles M.}}

|Fire Shut Up in My Bones

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Cobb, Jr.|first=Charles E.}}

|This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

|Finalist

|

|Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

|Nominee

|

|Malcolm X at Oxford Union

|Nominee

|

|Losing Our Way

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2016

|{{sortname|last=Newkirk|first=Pamela}}

|Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Elizabeth|dab=poet}}

|{{sort|Light of the World|The Light of the World}}

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Horne|first=Gerald}}

|Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic

|Finalist

|

|Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture

|Nominee

|

|Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We Catch Mental Illness

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America|The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America}}

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2017

|{{sortname|last=Gross|first=Kali Nicole}}

|Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Nelson|first=Alondra}}

|{{sort|Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, And Reconciliation After the Genome|The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, And Reconciliation After the Genome}}

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Sharpe|first=Christina}}

|In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

|Finalist

|

|{{sort|Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice|The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice}}

|Nominee

|

|Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

|Nominee

|

|Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2018

|{{sortname|last=Miles|first=Tiya}}

|{{sort|Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits|The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits}}

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Rooks|first=Noliwe}}

|Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Twitty|first=Michael W.}}

|{{sort|Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South|The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South}}

|Finalist

|

|Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

|Nominee

|

|Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

|Nominee

|

|Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2019

|{{sortname|last=Perry|first=Imani}}

|May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Carter|first=Stephen L.}}

|Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Cooper|first=Brittney}}

|Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

|Finalist

|

|Tigerland: 1968–1969 A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

|Nominee

|

|Heavy: An American Memoir

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke|The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke}}

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2020

|{{sortname|last=Woodfox|first=Albert}}

|Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Ford|first=Clyde}}

|Think Black: A Memoir

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Hartman|first=Saidiya}}

|Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

|Finalist

|

|Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People

|Nominee

|

|We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

|Nominee

|

|What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2021

|{{sortname|last=Chatelain|first=Marcia}}

|Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Brown|first=Vincent|dab=historian}}

|Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Mask|first=Deirdre}}

|{{sort|Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power|The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power}}

|Finalist

|

|Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another|The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another}}

|Nominee

|

|Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

|Nominee

|

|+Historical/Social/Political Nonfiction winners and nominees

! scope="col" width="5%" | Year

! scope="col" width="30%" |Author

! scope="col" width="50%" |Title

! scope="col" width="10%" |Result

! scope="col" width="5%" |{{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}}

! rowspan="3" |2022

|{{sortname|last=French|first=Howard W.}}

|Born in Blackness

|Winner

|

|Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

|Nominee

|

|We Do This Till We Free Us

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="4" |2023

|{{sortname|last=Burnham|first=Mariame}}

|By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

|Winner

|

|Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

|Nominee

|

|We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

|Nominee

|

|Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik

|Nominee

|

|+Memoir/Biography winners and nominees

! scope="col" width="5%" | Year

! scope="col" width="30%" |Author

! scope="col" width="50%" |Title

! scope="col" width="10%" |Result

! scope="col" width="5%" |{{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}}

! rowspan="3" |2022

|{{sortname|last=Greene Benjamin|first=Shanna}}

|Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

|Winner

|

|Read Until You Understand

|Nominee

|

|Bird Uncaged

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="4" |2023

|{{sortname|last=Gay|first=Ross}}

|Inciting Joy

|Winner

|

|This Boy We Made

|Nominee

|

|Black Boy Smile

|Nominee

|

|Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery

|Nominee

|

|+Poetry winners, finalists, and nominees

! scope="col" width=5%" | Year

! scope="col" width=30%" | Author

! scope="col" width=50%" | Work

! scope="col" width=10%" | Result

! scope="col" width=5% | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|Reference}}

! rowspan="3" |2007

|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Patricia|dab=poet}}

|Teahouse of the Almighty

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Hayes|first=Terrance}}

|Wind in a Box

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Troupe|first=Quincy}}

|{{sort|Architecture of Language|The Architecture of Language}}

|Finalist

|

! rowspan="3" |2008

|{{sortname|last=Dargan|first=Kyle G.}}

|Bouquet of Hungers

|Winner

|

|Conversion

|Nominee

|

|Quantum Lyrics

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="3" |2009

|{{sortname|last=Hardy|first=Myronn}}

|{{sort|Headless Saints|The Headless Saints}}

|Winner

|

|Please

|Nominee

|

|Warhorses

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="4" |2010

|{{sortname|last=Dove|first=Rita}}

|Sonata Mulattica: Poems

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Madhubuti|first=Haki R.}}

|Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems

|Winner

|

|Gospel

|Nominee

|

|Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="3" |2011

|{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Elizabeth|dab=poet}}

|Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010

|Winner

|

|Lighthead

|Nominee

|

|Skin, Inc: Identity Repair Poems

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="3" |2012

|{{sortname|last=Shockley|first=Evie}}

|{{sort|new black|the new black}}

|Winner

|

|Kingdom Animalia

|Nominee

|

|Life on Mars

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="3" |2013

|{{sortname|last=Clifton|first=Lucille}}

|{{sort|Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–210|The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–210}}

|Winner

|

|But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise

|Nominee

|

|me and Nina

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2014

|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Amaud Jamaul}}

|Darktown Follies

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Harvey|first=Yona}}

|Hemming the Water

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Van Jordan|first=A.}}

|{{sort|Cineaste: Poems|The Cineaste: Poems}}

|Finalist

|

|What We Ask of Flesh

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Big Smoke|The Big Smoke}}

|Nominee

|

|Silverchest

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2015

|{{sortname|last=Rankine|first=Claudia}}

|Citizen: An American Lyric

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Davis|first=Geffrey}}

|Revising the Storm

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Reeves|first=Roger}}

|King Me

|Finalist

|

|We Don't Know Any Gangsters

|Nominee

|

|Digest

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon|The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon}}

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2016

|{{sortname|last=Francis|first=Vievee}}

|Forest Primeval

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Dargan|first=Kyle}}

|Honest Engine

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Gay|first=Ross}}

|Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

|Finalist

|

|Voyage of the Sable Venus

|Nominee

|

|How to Be Drawn

|Nominee

|

|It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2017

|{{sortname|last=Kelly|first=Donika}}

|Bestiary

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=harris|first=francine j.}}

|play dead

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Williams|first=Phillip B.}}

|Thief in the Interior

|Finalist

|

|Third Voice

|Nominee

|

|Rapture

|Nominee

|

|{{sort|Crown Ain't Worth Much|The Crown Ain't Worth Much}}

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2018

|{{sortname|last=Shockley|first=Evie}}

|Semiautomatic

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Sealey|first=Nicole}}

|Ordinary Beast

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Patricia|dab=poet}}

|Incendiary Art

|Finalist

|

|City of Bones

|Nominee

|

|Trophic Cascade

|Nominee

|

|In the Language of My Captor

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2019

|{{sortname|last=Hayes|first=Terrance}}

|American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Maples|first=Kwoya Fagin}}

|Mend

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Wadud|first=Asiya}}

|Crosslight for Youngbird

|Finalist

|

|Approaching the Fields

|Nominee

|

|DiVida

|Nominee

|

|Pardon My Heart

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2020

|{{sortname|last=Osman|first=Ladan}}

|Exiles of Eden

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=ford|first=t’ai freedom}}

|& More Black

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Wadud|first=Asiya}}

|Syncope

|Finalist

|

|Night Angler

|Nominee

|

|1919

|Nominee

|

|Library of Small Catastrophes

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2021

|{{sortname|last=Griffiths|first=Rachel Eliza}}

|Seeing the Body

|Winner

|

|{{sortname|last=Blount|first=Tommye}}

|Fantasia for the Man in Blue

|Finalist

|

|{{sortname|last=Phillips|first=Carl}}

|Pale Colors in a Tall Field

|Finalist

|

|Jump the Clock

|Nominee

|

|Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

|Nominee

|

|White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2022

|{{sortname|last=McCallum|first=Shara}}

|No Ruined Stone

|Winner

|

|I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love

|Nominee

|

|More Perfect Union

|Nominee

|

|Tragic City

|Nominee

|

|Sho

|Nominee

|

|Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth

|Nominee

|

! rowspan="6" |2023

|{{Sortname|last=Taylor|first=Courtney Faye}}

|Concentrate

|Winner

|

|We Are Not Wearing Helmets

|Nominee

|

|To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

|Nominee

|

|Plans for Sentences

|Nominee

|

|Null Landing

|Nominee

|

|Best Barbarian

|Nominee

|