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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![Sick Souls, Healthy Minds](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691192161.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Next Big Idea Club's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring
![Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691190785.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
Finalist for the Best Non-Fiction Book, Digital Book World Awards
Finalist for the Best Book Published by a University Press, Digital Book World Awards
One of the Financial Times Selected Titles for 2020 Visions: The Year Ahead in Books
One 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 the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2020 in Economics
One of The Sunday Times' Best Business Books of 2020
Winner of the William G. Bowen Book Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
![The World According to Physics](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691182308.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Prize for Science Books
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020: Science
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Science
One of Symmetry Magazine's Top Physics Books of 2020
![In the Matter of Nat Turner](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691198668.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)
![Billionaire Wilderness](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691176673.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership
![Steadfast Democrats](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691199511.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Co-Winner of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers