| Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction | Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction |
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| - Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest — Fawn Weaver
- A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune — Noliwe Rooks
- Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World — Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Steven Conn
- The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience — Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
- The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America — Larry Tye
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| Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author | Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography |
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- Grown Woman — Sarai Johnson
- A Kind of Madness — Uche Okonkwo
- AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture — Shirley Neal
- Masquerade — O.O. Sangoyomi
- Swift River — Essie Chambers
| - Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America — JoyAnn Reid
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| Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional | Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry |
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- Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair — Tomesha Faxio
- Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight — Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggets
- I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book) — Tabitha Brown
- Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us — Chanté Griffin
- Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience — Rebecca Moore and Amberlee Green
| - This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets — Kwame Alexander
- Bluff: Poems — Danez Smith
- Good Dress — Brittany Rogers
- Load in Nine Times: Poems — Frank X Walker
- Song of My Softening — Omotara James
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| Outstanding Literary Work – Children | Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens |
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- You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil TJ Book — Taraji P. Henson and Paul Kellam
- All I Need to Be — Rachel Ricketts, Tiffany Rose and Luana Horry
- Cicely Tyson — Renée Watson and Sherry Shine
- Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair — Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
- My Hair Is a Book — Maisha Oso and London Ladd
| - Brushed Between Cultures: A YA Coming of Age Novel Set in Brooklyn, New York — Samarra St. Hilaire
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| Outstanding Graphic Novel |
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- Punk Rock Karaoke — Bianca Xunise
- Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined — David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
- Black Defender: The Awakening — Dr. David Washington, Mr. Zhengis Tasbolatov and Mr. Billy Blanks
- Gamerville — Johnnie Christmas
- Ghost Roast — Shawneé Gibbs, Shawnelle Gibbs and Emily Cannon
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