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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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 13: Logic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Robert de Jager Jackson Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Table Talk, Part I
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, and B. Winer Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
John K.G. Shearman Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11: Shorter Works and Fragments: Volume I
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, and James Robert de Jager Jackson Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
John O'Brien Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association

Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China
Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Environmental Science, Association of American Publishers

Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
Paul Frymer Winner of the 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
Jerald Podair Winner of the 2018 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball Research
Finalist for the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pen American Center

The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve
Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel 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

The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
Nick Haddad Longlisted for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books

At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2018 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel
Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes World’s 2017 Book of the Year in “History”