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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World's 2018 Books of the Year
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Schools of Oriental Research
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2019 Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"The Most Ominous Book I Read in 2018" (Carlos Lozado, Washington Post)
One of Vox's 9 Thinkers Who Made Sense of 2018's Chaos
One of Michael Dirda's Best Books of 2018
Winner of a 2017 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies
One of the Economist.com “Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year” in Culture
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Blackwell’s Best of Non-Fiction 2017
One of the Economist.com “Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year” in Economics and BusinessOne of Blackwell’s Best of Non-Fiction 2017
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics
Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017, chosen by Arnold Kling
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: Science
One of American Birding Podcast's Best Bird Books of 2018 (Donna Schulman & Nate Swick)