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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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Politics

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Kyle Harper One of Medium.com’s Books of the Year 2017
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2017
One of the Forbes.com “Great Anthropology and History Books of 2017” (chosen by Kristina Killgrove)
One of The Federalist’s Notable Books for 2017
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Classics, Association of American Publishers
One of Strategy + Business's Best Business Books in Economics for 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018

Chaucer: A European Life
Marion Turner One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019
One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019

Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Unver Rustem Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural Historians

The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age
Steven Weitzman Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (In Memory of Dorothy Kripke)

The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
Richard Bookstaber Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017

Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History
Matthew Simonton Co-Winner of the 2018 Runciman Award, The Anglo-Hellenic League

Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Christian Smith Winner of the 2018 SSSR Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics
Carol Rovane One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998

Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Christopher J. Phillips Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine

The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939–1950
Or Rosenboim Winner of the 2019 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association
Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017

Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel
Clayton Childress Co-Winner of the 2018 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association