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 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
A Forbes' Pick for The Year's Best Books About Higher Education, 2019
Shortlisted for the 2018 Africa-Asia ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars and Association for Asian Studies in Africa
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the ASA Book Prize (Herskovits), African Studies Association
Runner-Up for the 2018 Chadwick Alger Prize, International Studies Association’s International Organization Section