ShelfEvidentNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction — Complete Winners List
28 years of winners · National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) · Since 1996 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | Nnedi Okofor | — | |
| 2025 | Alyssa Cole | — | |
| 2024 | Elizabeth Acevedo | Ecco | |
| 2023 | Dolen Perkins-Valdez | Berkley | |
| 2022 | Kiese Laymon | — | |
| 2021 | Walter Mosley | — | |
| 2020 | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | — | |
| 2019 | Tayari Jones | Algonquin Books | |
| 2018 | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | — | |
| 2017 | Bernice McFadden | — | |
| 2016 | Victoria Christopher Murray | — | |
| 2015 | Eric Jerome Dickey | — | |
| 2014 | Pamela Samuels Young | — | |
| 2013 | Kimberla Lawson Roby | — | |
| 2012 | ReShonda Tate Billingsley | — | |
| 2011 | Terry McMillan | — | |
| 2010 | Walter Mosley | — | |
| 2009 | Blair Underwood | — | |
| 2008 | Walter Mosley | — | |
| 2007 | Pearl Cleage | — | |
| 2006 | Zane | — | |
| 2005 | T.D. Jakes | — | |
| 2004 | Toni Morrison | — | |
| 2003 | Nikki Giovanni | — | |
| 2002 | Terry McMillan | — | |
| 2001 | Omar Tyree | — | |
| 1999 | Alex Haley | — | |
| 1996 | Clancy Carlile | — |
