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.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: HistoryOne of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Winner of the Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin Grand Prize, History, Literature and Fine Arts CategoryWinner of the Research Prize, Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino
Honorable Mention for the Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Sciences Professional/Scholarly Award, Association of American Publishers
One of Whoopi Goldberg's Favorite Things, ABC The ViewChicago Tribune writer John Warner's Book That Will Help You Better Understand the Messed-Up Nature of the World
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
One of The Undefeated's 25 Can't Miss Books of 2019
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: EconomicsOne of Prospect's Best Economics Books of 2019
An Economist Book of the Year
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019
One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's 40 Best Jewish Books of 2012
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018One of Marketwatch's Nonfiction Best of 2018 Books
One of Kirkus’ Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books for Fall 2019Named a Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of Fall 2019
Best Non-fiction Books of 2019" in Marginal Revolution
“Book Title of the Year,” as selected for Curbed.com’s Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review
Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2018 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association
Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year, Apollo Magazine