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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Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times
One of The Australian Review’s 2017 Books of the YearOne 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
Honorable Mention, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category
Winner of the 2018 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological SocietyCo-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
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Shortlisted for the 2018 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show
Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of IdeasHonorable Mention for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: EconomicsOne of the Financial Times' Readers' Best Books of 2019
One of Business Insider's Richard Feloni's best books of 2019 on how we can rethink today's capitalism and improve the economy
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: HistoryWinner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)
Finalist for the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American PublishersWinner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA Institute
Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017
One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Economic, Social, and Environment / Finance
One of The New York Times Deal Book “Business Books Worth Reading” 2017 (chosen by Andrew Sorkin)
One of Exame’s “9 books that will help you get rich in 2018”
One of MoneyWeek’s “Five of the best books of 2017” (chosen by Dr. Matthew Partridge)
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017
One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017, chosen by Vitor Constancio
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017, chosen by Robert Shiller