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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Jean Tirole, Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in EconomicsWinner of the 2018 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School
Longlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017
One of the Times Higher Education Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Sir Anton Muscatelli
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by J. Bradford DeLong)
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: Monopolies, Sexism and Economics”
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Nature Guidebooks
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History
One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019
One of BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Best Astronomy and Space Books of 2019One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
Winner of the Jervis-Shroeder Best Book Award
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Politics
One of Medium.com’s Books of the Year 2017One 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
One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019
One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019
Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural HistoriansOne of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019