Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Fiction (Awarded by Black Caucus of the American Library Association)

Awards List

2020

The Nickel Boys
(Winner)
Colson Whitehead

The Last Thing You Surrender
(Honor Book)
Leonard Pitts Jr.

Red at the Bone
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

Africaville
(Honor Book)
Jeffrey Colvin

2019

An American Marriage
(Winner)
Tayari Jones

The Vain Conversation
(Honor Book)
Anthony Grooms

Praise Song for the Butterflies
(Honor Book)
Bernice L. McFadden

2018

Difficult Women
(Winner)
Roxane Gay

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Honor Book)
Jesmyn Ward

The Tragedy of Brady Sims
(Honor Book)
Ernest J. Gaines

2017

Another Brooklyn
(Winner)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Underground Railroad
(Honor Book)
Colson Whitehead

The Mothers
(Honor Book)
Brit Bennett

2016

God Help the Child
(Winner)
Toni Morrison

Driving the King
(Honor Book)
Ravi Howard

The Star Side of Bird Hill
(Honor Book)
Naomi Jackson

2015

Citizens Creek
(Winner)
Lalita Tademy

Saint Monkey
(Honor Book)
Jacinda Townsend

'Til the Well Runs Dry
(Honor Book)
Lauren Francis-Sharma

Ruby
(Honor Book)
Cynthia Bond

2014

The Good Lord Bird
(Winner)
James McBride

The Residue Years
(Honor Book)
Mitchell S. Jackson

2013

Freeman
(Winner)
Leonard Pitts Jr.

The Cutting Season
(Honor Book)
Attica Locke

2012

Silver Sparrow
(Honor Book)
Tayari Jones

The Taste of Salt
(Honor Book)
Martha Southgate

2011

Glorious
(Winner)
Bernice L. McFadden

2010

Buying Time
(Winner)
Pamela Samuels Young

Sag Harbor
(Honor Book)
Colson Whitehead

Carried By Six
(Honor Book)
Allen Ballard

2009

Where the Line Bleeds
(Honor Book)
Jesmyn Ward

2008

New England White
(Winner)
Stephen L. Carter

Cold Running Creek
(Honor Book)
Zelda Lockhart

2007

After
(Winner)
Marita Golden

Fortunate Son
(Honor Book)
Walter Mosley

Jump at the Sun
(Honor Book)
Kim McLarin

2006

I Got Somebody in Staunton
(Honor Book)
William Henry Lewis

2005

The Blackbird Papers
(Honor Book)
Ian Smith

Some People, Some Other Place
(Honor Book)
J. California Cooper

2004

Loving Donovan
(Honor Book)
Bernice L. McFadden
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

2003

Douglass' Women
(Winner)
Jewell Parker Rhodes

You Know Better
(Honor Book)
Tina McElroy Ansa

2002

I Wish I Had a Red Dress
(Winner)
Pearl Cleage

Plain Brown Wrapper
(Honor Book)
Karen Grigsby Bates

2001

The Fisher King
(Winner)
Paule Marshall

All of Me
(Honor Book)
Venise Berry

Sugar
(Honor Book)
Bernice L. McFadden

2000

Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
(Winner)
Valerie Wilson Wesley

Imani All Mine
(Honor Book)
Connie Rose Porter

1999

The Healing
(Winner)
Gayl Jones

A Toast Before Dying
(Honor Book)
Grace F. Edwards

1998

Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
(Honor Book)
Dawn Turner Trice

1997

Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home
(Honor Book)
Derrick A. Bell

1996

R.L.'s Dream
(Winner)
Walter Mosley

The Good Negress
(Honor Book)
A.J. Verdelle

1995

Rocking the Babies
(Honor Book)
Linda Raymond

1994

Lesson Before Dying
(Winner)
Ernest J. Gaines
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Free Enterprise
(Honor Book)
Michelle Cliff

Getting Right with God
(Honor Book)
Lionel Newton

Award Categories

Fiction

First Novel

Nonfiction

Award Years

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2019

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