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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Winner of the Research Prize, Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino
Honorable Mention for the Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Sciences Professional/Scholarly Award, Association of American Publishers

Chicago Tribune writer John Warner's Book That Will Help You Better Understand the Messed-Up Nature of the World
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
One of The Undefeated's 25 Can't Miss Books of 2019
One of The Progressive's Favorite Books of 2019
One of LitHub's 50 Favorite Books of the Year
One of Inside Higher Ed's Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays
Shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
Shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

One of Prospect's Best Economics Books of 2019
An Economist Book of the Year
Mind-opening Business Books of 2019
One of Mint's Books of 2019 You Should Not Miss
Winner of the PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019
Co-Winner of the Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
Finalist for the Best Book Published by a University Press, Digital Book World Awards
Longlisted for the getAbstract International Book Award

Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

Winner of the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History

Winner of the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians
Shortlisted for the RHS Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society
Winner of the S-USIH Book Prize, Society for U.S. Intellectual History

Shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association

Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Co-Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association