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.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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One of The Independent’s Best Nature Books of 2014
One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in ManagementWinner of the 2016 Bronze Medal in Operations Management / Lean / Continuous Improvement, Axiom Business Book Awards
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
Co-Winner of the 2015 István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual HistoryHonorable Mention for the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Selected for the Claremont Review of Books CRB Christmas Reading List 2015
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015
One of The Indian Express Stand-Out Books of the Year 2015
One of the Irish Times 2015 Readers’ Books of the Year
Selected for National Review Online’s “Some Great 2015 Books”
One of The Spectator 2015 Books of the Year
One of Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2016One of The Independent’s 6 Best Books in Nature 2015
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015
One of The Guardian’s Best Science Books of 2015
One of LinkedIn’s Best Business Books of 2015
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016
Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
One of The Guardian’s Favourite Reads of 2017 as chosen by scientistsWinner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2018 British Psychological Society Book Award, Best Academic Monograph
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Emily Wilson
Honorable Mention for the 2017 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association
Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in HistoryWinner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin
Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)
Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
Professional, Scholarly Cover/Jacket Award, New York Book Show