Awards & Recognition

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. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.

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    The House of Government The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
    Yuri Slezkine     Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
    Honorable Mention for the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame
    Winner of the 2018 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
    Winner of the 2018 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
    Shortlisted for the 2018 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
    Selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Aug 24, 2017
    One of The Spectator 2017 Books of the Year
    One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
    One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2017
    One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
    One of Open Letters Monthly’s “Our Year in Reading 2017
    One of the Economist.com "Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year" in History
    One of the Millions.com “A Year in Reading 2017: Stephen Dodson”
    One of World’s 2017 Books of the Year in “History”
    One of London Review Bookshop’s Best History Books, Christmas 2017
    Selected for Le Monde’s “Monde des livres” 2017 (chosen by Nicolas Weill)
    One of The Australian’s Books of the Year 2017 (chosen by Louis Nowra)
    One of the Times Colonist Favorite Books of 2017 (chosen by Adrian Dix)
    One of Mosaic's Best Books of 2018 (Ruth Wisse)
    The Burr Conspiracy The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
    James E. Lewis Jr.     Finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize
    2017 Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
    Longlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, McGill University
    Not Working Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
    David G. Blanchflower     Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
    One of Prospect's Best Economics Books of 2019
    The Technology Trap The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    Carl Benedikt Frey     Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards
    One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Business
    One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Technology
    12 must-read books for 2019 as recommended by Tech Crunch's Extra Crunch readers
    One of Five Books' Best Economics Books of 2019
    University of Chicago 2019 Recommended Reading
    One of Handelsblatt's Best Technology Books of 2019
    One of Época Negócios's Best Books of 2019
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
    A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019
    A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
    Measuring Poverty around the World Measuring Poverty around the World
    Anthony B. Atkinson     One of Prospect's Best Economics Books of 2019
    Protestants Abroad Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
    David A. Hollinger     Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
    The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography
    Carlos Eire     A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
    Learning Zulu Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
    Mark Sanders     One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
    Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times
    The Infidel and the Professor The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    Dennis C. Rasmussen     One of The Australian Review’s 2017 Books of the Year
    One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
    Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: From Space to Chinese Noir”
    One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kaushik Basu)
    Shortlisted for the 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
    Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography
    Bernard McGinn     Honorable Mention, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category
    On the Move On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
    Filiz Garip     Winner of the 2018 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
    Co-Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association
    Winner of the 2017 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association
    Honorable Mention for the 2019 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association
    Getting Tough Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
    Julilly Kohler-Hausmann     One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
    Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians