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
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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
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 The Atlantic's Best Books of 2018
Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Field Guide, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of First Things' Favorite Books of 2018Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology
Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in History
Co-Winner of the 2015 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of PhysicsOne of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “The Writing that Shaped Economic Thinking in 2016”Selected for Canada’s Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017