Coretta Scott King Book Awards — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · American Library Association / Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table · Since 1969 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	Twenty-four Seconds from Now...	Jason Reynolds	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2024	Nigeria Jones	—	—
2023	Freewater	—	—
2022	Unspeakable the Tulsa Race Massacre	—	—
2021	Before the Ever After	Jacqueline Woodson	Nancy Paulsen Books
2020	New Kid	Jerry Craft	HarperCollins
2019	A Few Red Drops the Chicago Race Riot of 1919	—	—
2018	Piecing Me Together	—	—
2017	March Book Three	—	—
2016	Gone Crazy in Alabama	—	—
2015	Brown Girl Dreaming	Jacqueline Woodson	Nancy Paulsen Books
2014	Ps Be Eleven	—	—
2013	Hand in Hand Ten Black Men Who Changed America	—	—
2012	Heart and Soul the Story of America and African Americans	—	—
2011	One Crazy Summer	—	—
2010	Bad News for Outlaws the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves	—	—