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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Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Environmental Science, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2018 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball ResearchFinalist for the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pen American Center
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Koichi Hamada)Winner of the 2018 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2018 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize, Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American PublishersShortlisted for the 2018 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
World’s 2017 Book of the Year in “History”
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American PublishersHonorable Mention for the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame
Winner of the 2018 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2018 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
Shortlisted for the 2018 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Aug 24, 2017
One of The Spectator 2017 Books of the Year
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2017
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
One of Open Letters Monthly’s “Our Year in Reading 2017
One of the Economist.com "Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year" in History
One of the Millions.com “A Year in Reading 2017: Stephen Dodson”
One of World’s 2017 Books of the Year in “History”
One of London Review Bookshop’s Best History Books, Christmas 2017
Selected for Le Monde’s “Monde des livres” 2017 (chosen by Nicolas Weill)
One of The Australian’s Books of the Year 2017 (chosen by Louis Nowra)
One of the Times Colonist Favorite Books of 2017 (chosen by Adrian Dix)
One of Mosaic's Best Books of 2018 (Ruth Wisse)
Finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize2017 Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Longlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, McGill University