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 Awards1919
Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
Co-Winner of the EHS First Monograph Prize, Economic History SocietyFinalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's 40 Best Jewish Books of 2012
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
Winner of the PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
Best Non-fiction Books of 2019" in Marginal Revolution
Winner of the UNT Rilke Prize, University of North Texas
“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