Coretta Scott King Author Award Winners and Honor Titles Since 2001
Title: Nigeria Jones (2024 CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR WINNER)
By: Zoboi, Ibi
Published: 2023
2024 Coretta Scott King Author Winner
Call number: YA Fiction Zoboi.I
Please note that this is a YA book in our YA section.
Ages 13 and up
Title: Big
By: Harrison, Vashti
Published: 2023
2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Call number: JPicture Harri.V
Ages 4 to 8
Title: How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
By: Weatherford, Carole Boston
Published: 2023
2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Call number: xBiog Cox.M Weath.C
Ages 7 to 10
Title: Kin: Rooted in Hope
By: Weatherford, Carole Boston
Published: 2023
2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Call number: J Weath.C
Ages 10 and up
Title: Freewater (2023 CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR WINNER)
By: Luqman-Dawson, Amina
Published: 2022
2023 Author Winner
Call Number: J Luqma.A
Title: Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
By: Zoboi, Ibi
Published: 2022
2023 Author Honor
Call Number: xBiog Butle.O Zoboi.I
Title: The Talk
By: Williams, Alicia D.
Published: 2022
2023 Author Honor
Call Number: JPicture Willi.A
Title: Victory, Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By: Smith, Tommie
Published: 2022
2023 Author Honor
Co-Author: Derrick Barnes
Call Number: YA B Smith.T Smith.T
(Note: this book is in our YA section.)
Title: The Crossover
By: Alexander, Kwame
Published: 2014
2015 Author Honor
Call number: J Alexa.K
Title: Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
By: Barnes, Derrick
Published: 2017
2018 Author Honor
Call number: JPicture Barne.D
Title: Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
By: Bolden, Tonya
Published: 2005
2006 Author Honor
Call number: xBiog Lyons.M Bolde.T
Title: Zora & Me
By: Bond, Victoria and T.R. Simon
Published: 2010
2011 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: J Bond.V
Title: Freedom Over Me
By: Bryan, Ashley
Published: 2016
2017 Author Honor
Call number: J Bryan.A
Title: King and the Dragonflies
By: Callender, Kacen
Published: 2020
2021 Author Honor
Call number: J Calle.K
Title: Finding Langston
By: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
Published: 2018
2019 Author Honor
Call number: J Cline.L
Title: New Kid
By: Craft, Jerry
Published: 2019
2020 Author Winner
Call number: JGraphic Craft.J
Title: Elijah of Buxton
By: Curtis, Christopher Paul
Published: 2007
2008 Author Winner
Call number: J Curti.C
Title: Lifting As We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
By: Dionne, Evette
Published: 2020
2021 Author Honor
Call number: x324.623 Dionn.E
Title: Copper Sun
By: Draper, Sharon
Published: 2006
2007 Author Winner
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Drape.S
Title: Home Is Not a Country
By: Elhillo, Safia
Published: 2021
2022 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Elhil.S
Title: Money Hungry
By: Flake, Sharon G.
Published: 2001
2002 Author Honor
Call number: J Flake.S
Title: Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It
By: Frazier, Sundee
Published: 2007
2008 John Steptoe Winner for New Talent
Call number: J Frazi.S
Title: The Great Migration: Journey to the North
By: Greenfield, Eloise
Published: 2011
2012 Author Honor
Call number: x811 Green.E
Title: Bronx Masquerade
By: Grimes, Nikki
Published: 2002
2003 Author Winner
Call number: J Grime.N
Title: Dark Sons
By: Grimes, Nikki
Published: 2005
2006 Author Honor
Call number: J Grime.N
Title: The Road to Paris
By: Grimes, Nikki
Published: 2006
2007 Author Honor
Call number: J Grime.N
Title: Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
By: Grimes, Nikki
Published: 2002
2003 Author Honor
Call number: J Grime.N
Title: Words with Wings
By: Grimes, Nikki
Published: 2013
2014 Author Honor
Call number: x808 Grime.N
Title: A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
By: Hartfield, Claire
Published: 2018
2019 Author Winner
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA 305.896 Hartf.C
Title: Missy Violet and Me
By: Hathaway, Barbara
Published: 2004
2005 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: J Hatha.B
Title: Monday's Not Coming
By: Jackson, Tiffany D.
Published: 2018
2019 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Jacks.T
Title: The First Part Last
By: Johnson, Angela
Published: 2003
2004 Author Winner
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Johns.A
Title: The Parker Inheritance
By: Johnson, Varian
Published: 2018
2019 Author Honor
Call number: J Johns.V
Title: March (link to all titles)
By: Lewis, John
Published: 2013-2016
Book 1: 2014 Author Honor
Book 3: 2017 Author Winner
Note: These books can be found in the Adult and YA sections of our library. Volume 1 is in the children's graphic novel section as well.
Call number: Adult: 328.7309 Lewis.J
YA: YA 328.7309 Lewis.J
Children's: x328.73 Lewis.J
Title: Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
By: Lester, Julius
Published: 2005
2006 Author Winner
Call number: J Leste.J
Title: How It Went Down
By: Magoon, Kekla
Published: 2014
2015 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Magoo.K
Title: Revolution in Our Time
By: Magoon, Kekla
Published: 2021
2022 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA 322.42 Magoo.K
Title: The Rock and the River
By: Magoon, Kekla
Published: 2009
2010 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: J Magoo.K
Title: The season of Styx Malone
By: Magoon, Kekla
Published: 2018
2019 Author Honor
Call number: J Magoo.K
Title: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
By: Mbalia, Kwame
Published: 2019
2020 Author Honor
Call number: J Mbali.K
Title: Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
By: McKissack, Patricia
Published: 2003
2004 Author Honor
Call number: x973.7 Mckis.P
Title: Never Forgotten
By: McKissack, Patricia
Published: 2011
2012 Author Honor
Call number: J Mckis.P
Title: The Stars Beneath Our Feet
By: Moore, David Barclay
Published: 2017
2018 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: J Moore.D
Title: Remember: The Journey to School Integration
By: Morrison, Toni
Published: 2005
2004 Author Winner
Call number: x379.263 Morri.T
Title: The Legend of Buddy Bush
By: Moses, Sheila P.
Published: 2004
2005 Author Honor
Call number: J Moses.S
Title: Darius & Twig
By: Myers, Walter Dean
Published: 2013
2014 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Myers.W
Title: Lockdown
By: Myers, Walter Dean
Published: 2010
2011 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Myers.W
Title: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
By: Nelson, Kadir
Published: 2011
2012 Author Winner
Call number: x973.0496 Nelso.K
Title: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
By: Nelson, Kadir
Published: 2008
2009 Author Winner
Call number: x796.35764 Nelso.K
Title: Carver: A Life in Poems
By: Nelson, Marilyn
Published: 2001
2002 Author Honor
Call number: x811 Nelso.M
Title: Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
By: Nelson, Marilyn
Published: 2004
2005 Author Honor
Call number: x811 Nelso.M
Title: A Wreath for Emmett Till
By: Nelson, Marilyn
Published: 2005
2006 Author Honor
Call number: x811 Nelso.M
Title: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshall
By: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Published: 2009
2010 Author Winner
Call number: xBiog Reeve.B Nelso.V
Title: Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
By: Neri, G.
Published: 2010
2011 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Neri.G
Title: The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
By: Petrus, Junauda
Published: 2019
2020 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Petru.J
Title: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
By: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Published: 2012
2013 Author Winner
Call number: x973.0496 Pinkn.A
Title: Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
By: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Published: 2000
2001 Author Honor
Call number: x920.72 Pinkn.A
Title: All American Boys
By: Reynolds, Jason with Brendan Kiely
Published: 2015
2016 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Reynol.J
Title: As Brave As You
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2016
2017 Author Honor
Call number: J Reyno.J
Title: The Boy in the Black Suit
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2015
2016 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Reyno.J
Title: Long Way Down
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2017
2018 Author Honor
Call number: J Reyno.J
(check also YA Fiction Reyno.J)
Title: Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2019
2020 Author Honor
Call number: J Reyno.J
Title: When I Was the Greatest
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2014
2015 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Reyno.J
Title: Ninth Ward
By: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Published: 2010
2011 Author Honor
Call number: J Rhode.J
Title: X: A Novel
By: Shabazz, Ilyasah with Kekla Magoon
Published: 2015
2016 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Shaba.I
Title: Keeping the Night Watch
By: Smith, Anita Hope
Published: 2008
2009 Author Honor
Call number: J Smith.H
Title: The Way a Door Closes
By: Smith, Anita Hope
Published: 2003
2004 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: x811 Smith.H
Title: Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
By: Smith, Charles R., Jr.
Published: 2007
2008 Author Honor
Call number: xBiog Ali.M Smith.C
Title: Hoodoo
By: Smith, Ronald L.
Published: 2015
2016 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: Smith.R
Title: All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
By: Taylor, Mildred D.
Published: 2020
2021 Author Honor
Call number: YA Fiction Taylo.M
Please note: This title is in our YA section.
Title: The Land
By: Taylor, Mildred D.
Published: 2000
2001 Author Winner
Call number: J Taylo.M
Title: The Hate U Give
By: Thomas, Angie
Published: 2017
2018 Author Honor
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Thoma.A
Title: The Blacker the Berry: Poems
By: Thomas, Joyce Carol
Published: 2008
2009 Author Honor
Call number: x811 Thoma.J
Title: Piecing Me Together
By: Watson, Renee
Published: 2017
2018 Author Winner
Call number: J Watso.R
Title: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
By: Weatherford, Carole Boston
Published: 2021
2022 Author Winner
Call Number: x976.9 Weath.C
Title: Genesis Begins Again
By: Williams, Alicia D.
Published: 2019
2020 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Call number: J Willi.A
Title: Gone Crazy in Alabama
By: Williams-Garcia, Rita
Published: 2015
2016 Author Winner
Call number: J Willi.R
Title: One Crazy Summer
By: Williams-Garcia, Rita
Published: 2010
2011 Author Winner
Call number: J Willi.R
Title: P.S. Be Eleven
By: Williams-Garcia, Rita
Published: 2012
2013 Author Winner
Call number: J Willi.R
Title: The Red Rose Box
By: Woods, Brenda
Published: 2002
2003 Author Honor
Call number: J Woods.B
Title: Before the Ever After
By: Woodson, Jacqueline
Published: 2020
2021 Author Winner
Call number: J Woods.J
Title: brown girl dreaming
By: Woodson, Jacqueline
Published: 2014
2015 Author Winner
Call number: xBiog Woods.J Woods.J
Title: Each Kindness
By: Woodson, Jacqueline
Published: 2012
2013 Author Honor
Call number: JPicture Woods.J
Title: Locomotion
By: Woodson, Jacqueline
Published: 2003
2004 Author Honor
Call number: x811 Woods.J
Title: Miracle's Boys
By: Woodson, Jacqueline
Published: 2000
2001 Author Honor
Call number: Woods.J
Title: The Sun Is Also a Star
By: Yoon, Nicola
Published: 2016
2017 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Note: This title is in our YA section.
Call number: YA Fiction Yoon.N
Title: The People Remember
By: Zoboi, Ibi
Published: 2021
2022 Author Honor
Call number: x394.2 Zoboi.I (Kwanzaa book)