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.
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![On the Couch](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691242439.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
An Independent Best Book to Read This Month
A Guardian Book of the Day
![The Wife of Bath](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691206011.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year
Shortlisted for the History Book of the Year Prize, History Reclaimed
Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year Prize
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
![The Aesthetic Cold War](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691230634.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
![Please make me pretty, I don't want to die](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691239026.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
A New York Times Best Poetry Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize, Arrowsmith Press
Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
![Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691230559.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the Ecocriticism Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Co-Winner of the Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
![Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400823017.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Communities of Care](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691226514.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book Award
Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize
![Novel Relations](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691193106.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 13](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691656021.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691655963.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691656014.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Learning Zulu](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691191461.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times
![The World in a Book](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691191454.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America
![Final Matters](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691182421.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Ottilie Mulzet, Winner of the Tibor Déry Prize, Tibor Déry Foundation
![City of Beginnings](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691182186.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Site Reading](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691183343.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Selected Poems](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691190419.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Global Remapping of American Literature](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691180786.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Shortlisted for the 2012 American Studies Network Prize
![Mapping St. Petersburg](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691187617.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![What the Victorians Made of Romanticism](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691175362.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Received the Judges’ Commendation for the 2018 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association
![The Plural of Us](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691172811.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Poetic Trespass](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691176093.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 9](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691629124.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Forms](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173436.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2015 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
![F.B. Eyes](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173412.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2015
Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
![The Age of the Crisis of Man](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173290.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2015 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year for 2015 (selected by Adam Thirlwell)
A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2015 (selected by Robert Macfarlane)
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015
One of the Slate Book Review's Overlooked Books of 2015
One of The Paris Review’s Staff Picks for 2015 (selected by Lorin Stein)
![The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173221.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Independent’s Best Books of 2014
One of South China Morning Post’s Best Books of 2014
One of The Globe and Mail 75 Book Ideas for Christmas 2014
![Moral Imagination](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173160.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Jane Shaw
![The Things Things Say](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691171258.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
![Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400884124.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
![Hymns and Fragments](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400883998.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691647470.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II)](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691648699.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 10](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691644103.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691634524.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Knotted Subject](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691636849.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The View from the Tower](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691633787.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
![Time, History, and Literature](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169071.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Lydia Ginzburg's Prose](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691166797.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2017 AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
![The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Five](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169835.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Tash Aw
![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691170022.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Buffalo News’ 10 Rare and Wonderful Books for Holiday Giving 2015
Selected for Cosmos Magazine’s Holiday Science Reading list 2015
One of Denver Life Magazine’s 8 Books for Everyone on Your Holiday List
![The Ruined Elegance](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691167503.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Library Journal’s Best Books 2015: Poetry
![Franz Kafka](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691167992.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
![The Lives of the Novel](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165783.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2014 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
![The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume V](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691151717.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Truthdig’s 2015 Books of the Year
![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
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
![On Conan Doyle](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691164120.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2012 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates
![Slavery and the Culture of Taste](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691160979.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Co-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Co-Winner of the 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
![Dictionary of Untranslatables](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400849918.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Hari Kunzru
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by David Wootton
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Robert S. C. Gordon
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
![Inside Paradise Lost](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691159744.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
![How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691159546.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
![The Irresistible Fairy Tale](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691159553.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
![The Indignant Generation](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691157894.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2012 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc.
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis
Winner of the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association
![The Novel and the Sea](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691155982.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2010-2011 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Second Runner-Up for the 2011 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
![The Rise and Fall of Meter](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691155128.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
![Empty Houses](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691153162.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Shortlisted for the 2013 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
![The Quotable Thoreau](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691139975.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Selected for “The Best of the Best” Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference
![Carnations](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691149455.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2012 Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University
![The Age of Auden](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691136790.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
![Northern Arts](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691148243.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
![Oranges and Snow](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691142463.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
![A Certain Ambiguity](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691146010.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Postmodern Belief](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691145754.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Eternal City](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691146102.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry
Kathleen Graber, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Winner of the 2011 Literary Award for Poetry, Library of Virginia
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
Finalist for the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America
![Angina Days](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691144979.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Runner-Up for the The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors
Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
![Cultural Capitals](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691141107.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Between Women](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400830855.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2008 Alan Bray Memorial Award
Winner of the 2008 Albion Book Prize
Winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in LGBT Studies
Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle
![America's Asia](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400826438.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the 2006 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005
![The Dream of the Poem](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400827558.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2007 R. R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry
Finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture
Peter Cole, Recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
![Through Other Continents](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691114507.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize
![Camus at Combat](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691133768.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Novel, Volume 1](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691127187.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007
![The Novel, Volume 2](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691134734.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 12, Part 6](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691004952.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 16, Part 1](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691004839.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 16, Part 2](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691004846.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 16, Part 3](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691098838.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 8](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691098753.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Victorian Sappho](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691059198.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the 2000 First Book Prize of the Modern Language Association
![Bardic Nationalism](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691044804.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 1998 First Book Prize, Modern Language Association
![Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400821495.jpg?w=410&auto=format)