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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Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
Dani Rodrik One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )
Winner of the 2019 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School

Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
Issa Kohler-Hausmann Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Winner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2019 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Douglas S. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson, and David N. Kinsey Winner of the 2013 Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Co-winners of the 2014 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World
Krishan Kumar Co-Winner of the 2018 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2018 Ab Imperio Award, KRES Poliskola

The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
Robert I. Rotberg One of the International Affairs Blog Top 5 Books: December 2017

Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Matthew J. Salganik Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Textbook / Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers

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

Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
Yaacob Dweck Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture