Awards
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
Browse Awards1917
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Art, Architecture, & Photography Book of Fall 2020
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1996
Winner of the 2018 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2018 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration
James Peebles, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership
One of The New York Times's 11 Books to Watch For in MayA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Selected as One of the Top 10 Poetry Books of Spring 2020 by Publisher's Weekly
One of the Financial Times Selected Titles for 2020 Visions: The Year Ahead in BooksOne of New Statesman's Books to Read in 2020
A New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
One of Next Big Idea Club's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring
A New York Times Editors' Choice
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020: Economics
One of Next Big Idea Club's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020: Science
One of The Atlantic's Best Books of 2018
Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Field Guide, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales