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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Jean Tirole, Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in EconomicsWinner of the 2018 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School
Longlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017
One of the Times Higher Education Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Sir Anton Muscatelli
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by J. Bradford DeLong)
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: Monopolies, Sexism and Economics”
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Nature Guidebooks
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History
Winner of the Gold Medal in Business Ethics, Axiom Business Book Awards
Shortlisted for the W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize, Political Studies Association
Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians
One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society
Honorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearWinner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Co-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association
Winner of the Olga Amsterdamska Award, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
One of BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Best Astronomy and Space Books of 2019One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019
Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List