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. 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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Longlisted for the Young Adult Science Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksOne of NPR's best books of 2020
Winner of the Harrison White Book Award, Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American PublishersOne of Next Big Idea Club's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020Finalist 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
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers
One of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular ScienceShortlisted 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
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of AmericaFinalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership
Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Field Guide, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Co-Winner of the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science AssociationHonorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Winner of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeWinner of the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
Winner of the Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Writing Based on Archival Material
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
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