BCALA Literary AwardsFiction

Given by Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)

Other Names: BCALA Book Award, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Prize, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award
40 Works / 41 Items 0 Books
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Fiction Award acknowledges "outstanding achievement in the presentation of the cultural, historical and sociopolitical aspects of the show more Black Diaspora" in fiction show less
Stages:
All, Winner (114), Honor (55), Nominee (1), No Stage (1)
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Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (4), 2021 (3), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (3), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (2), 1994 (1)

Winner 30

WorkYear
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez2023
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby2022
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett2021
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead2020
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones2019
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay2018
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson2017
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison2016
Citizens Creek : a novel by Lalita Tademy2015
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride2014
Freeman by Jr. Leonard Pitts2013
Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden2011
Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young2010
Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone2009
New England White by Stephen L. Carter2008
After by Marita Golden2007
Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate2006
Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney-Whetstone2005
Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud2004
Douglass' Women : A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes2003
I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage2002
The Fisher King by Paule Marshall2001
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do by Valerie W. Wesley2000
The Healing by Gayl Jones1999
The River Where Blood is Born by Sandra Jackson-Opoku1998
Sarahs Psalm by Florence Ladd1997
RL's Dream by Walter Mosley1996
Rattlebone by Maxine Clair1995
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love by Felix H. Liddell1995
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines1994

Honor 10

WorkYear
Yonder by Jabari Asim2023
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana2023
Perish by Latoya Watkins2023
The Trees by Percival Everett2022
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris2022
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson2022
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby2021
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston2021
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke2013
Rocking the Babies: A Novel by Linda Raymond1994

Nominee 1

WorkYear
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke2013

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