Debut Fiction - David Anthony DURHAM : Gabriel's Story
Fiction - Percival EVERETT : Erasure
Debut Fiction - Tayari JONES : Leaving Atlanta
Fiction - Zakes MDA : The Heart of Redness
Debut Fiction - Chimamanda NGOZI ADICHIE : Purple Hibiscus
Fiction - Mat JOHNSON : Hunting in Harlem
Debut Fiction - Chris ABANI : GraceLand
Fiction - Maryse CONDE : Who Slashed Celanire's Throat ?
Contemporary Fiction - Tracy PRICE-THMPSON : A Woman's Worth
Debut Fiction - Denise NICHOLAS : Freshwater Road
Fiction - Nancy RAWLES : My Jim : A Novel
Contemporary Fiction - Clyde W. FORD : Le long Mile : The Shango Mysteries
Debut Fiction - Aminatta FORNA : Ancestor Stones
Fiction - Edward P. JONES : All Aunt Hargar's Children
Poetry - Patricia SMITH : Teahouse of the Almighty
Debut Fiction - Kwame DAWES : She's Gone
Fiction - Junot DIAZ : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Poetry - Kyle G. DARGAN : Bouquet of Hungers
Fiction - Uwem AKPAN : Say You're One of Them
Poetry - Myronn HARDY : The Headless Saints
Fiction - Percival EVERETT : I Am not Sidney Poitier
Poetry - Rita DOVE : Sonata Mulattica et Haki R. MADHUBUTI : Liberation Narratives
Fiction - Danielle EVANS : Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Poetry - Elizabeth ALEXANDER : Crave Radiance
Fiction - Helen OYEYEMI : Mr Fox
Poetry - Evie SHOCKLEY : The New Black
Fiction - Esi EDUGYAN : Half-Blood Blues
Poetry - Lucille CLIFTON : The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
Fiction - NpViolet BULAWAYO : We Need New Names
Poetry - Arnaud Jamaul JOHNSON : Darktown Follies
Fiction - Laila LALAMI : The Moor's Account
Poetry - Claudia RANKINE : Citizen : An American Lyric
Fiction - James HANNAHAM : Delicious Foods
Poetry - Vievee FRANCIS : Forest Primeval
Fiction - JJ Amaworo WILSON : Damnificados
Poetry - Donika KELLY : Bestiary
Fiction - Ladee HUBBARD : The Talented Ribkins
Poetry - Evie SHOCKLEY : Semiautomatic
Fiction - Nafissa THOMPSON-SPIRES : Heads of the Colored People
Poetry - Terrence HAYES : American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Fiction - Jeffrey COLVIN : Africaville
Poetry - Ladan OSMAN : Exiles od Eden
Debut Fiction  - Rita WOODS : Remembrance
Fiction - Percival EVERETT : Telephone
Poetry - Rachel Eliza GRIFFITHS : Seeing the Body
Debut Fiction - Quntos KUNQUEST : This Life 
Fiction - Percival EVERETT : The Trees
Poetry - Shara McCALLUM : No Ruuned Stone
Debut Fiction - MEron HADERO : A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
Fiction - James HANNAHAM : Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened  to Carlotta
Poetry - Courtney Faye TAYLOR : Concentrate
Debut Fiction -  Soraya PALMER : The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter
Fiction - Mihret SIBHAT : The History of a Difficult Child
Poetry - A. Van JORDAN : When I Waked, I Creid to Dream Again