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 Rise and Fall of American Growth](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691147727.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants
A New York Times Bestseller
One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economy
#36 on Bloomberg’s "50 Most Influential" List 2016
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2016
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016
One of The Economist’s Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in History
One of Bloomberg View’s “Five Books to Change Conservatives’ Minds,” chosen by Cass Sunstein
One of Bloomberg View’s Great History Books of 2016
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016
One of The Wall Street Journal’s “The 20 Books That Defined Our Year” 2016
One of Foreign Affairs’ Editors’ Picks 2016
One of the Washington Post’s Best Economics Books 2016
One of The NewYorker.com Page-Turner blog’s “The Books We Loved in 2016”
Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
![The Princeton History of Modern Ireland](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691154060.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Irish Times “Our Favourite Books of 2016”
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
![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 Color of Success](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691168029.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2014 Best First Book, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
![Devil in the Mountain](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400881345.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Discover Magazine's Top Science Books of the Year for 2004
![Better Birding](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691129662.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The London Free Press’ “Great flock of birding books 2015”