Awards & Recognition
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. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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![The Politics of Precaution](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691163369.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2013 Levine Prize, Research Committee on the Structure of Government of the International Political Science Association
Winner of the 2012 ONE Best Book Award, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management
![Tesla](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165615.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2015 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award, History Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
One of Amazon.com’s 2013 Best Science Books
One of Booklist Online’s Top 10 Science & Health Books for 2013
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
![The Globalization of Inequality](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691160528.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf
![Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165240.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers
![How to Clone a Mammoth](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691157054.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
2016 Gold Medal Winner in Science, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Winner of the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books
Shortlisted for the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa Society
One of The Independent’s 6 Best Books in Science 2015
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015
One of NewScientist.com CultureLab’s Best Reads from 2015
One of Science News’ Favorite Books of 2015
![The Limits of Partnership](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165868.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Listed on the 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2015, chosen by Daniel Fuss
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Dan Fuss
![Mass Flourishing](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165790.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by chosen by Bjorn Wahlroos
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013
A "Best Business Book of the Year for 2013" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist
![On Elizabeth Bishop](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691154114.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Colm Tóibín, Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame 2015
Nominee for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Blake Morrison
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Nicci Gerrard
One of The Guardian’s Readers’ Books of 2015
One of the Irish Times 2015 Readers’ Books of the Year
One of The New Yorker’s Twelve Books Related to Poems, 2015