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
Browse Awards1943
Times Critics' Top Art Books of 2019
One of Pop Matter's Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
Runner-Up for the 2018 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association
Winner of the 2018 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political PsychologyWinner of the 2018 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities
Winner of the 2018 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
New Zealand Listener's Best Book of 2019One of FiveBooks' Best Climate Books of 2019
Winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, Communities and Place Division of the American Society of Criminology
One of the Evening Standard's Best Books of 2019One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Archaeology and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
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 Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History
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 Progressive's Favorite Books of 2019
One of LitHub's 50 Favorite Books of the Year
One of Inside Higher Ed's Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays
Shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
Shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society