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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A Waterstones Best Science Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the Year
One of The Atlantic's Books That Made Us Think the Most this Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of the YearWinner of the Heartland Booksellers Award in Nonfiction, Midwest Independent Booksellers Association
Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards
A Scholarly Kitchen Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations of the Year
A Commonweal Best Book of the Year
A Birdwatcher's Yearbook Best Bird Book of the YearThird Place for the 2022 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological SocietyWinner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities section of the American Sociological Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year