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

Nobel Prize–Winning Authors

Browse Awards²¹³³

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception
Winner of the 2009 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association

Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2021

Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School
Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education
Winner of the Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Gold Medal in Education, Independent Publisher Book Awards

The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
A Fortune Best Book of the Year

Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
Winner of the Bronze Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards

The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II
A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year 2021
A Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2021

The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America
Honorable Mention for the Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association

The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
William D. Nordhaus, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books
A Project Syndicate Commentators' Best Reads of the Year
Winner of the Silver Medal in Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability, Axiom Business Book Awards

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the Outstanding Western Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
Kansas Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Bonney MacDonald Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier
Winner of the Bentley Book Prize, World History Association

What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021
Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Moving Image Category
Longlisted for the National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association