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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One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Archaeology and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers

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

Longlisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

Winner of the 2018 NAVSA Book Prize, North American Victorian Studies Association
Winner of the 2018 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017

One of Flavorwire’s 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015
Shortlisted for the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
One of HistoryBuff.com’s 10 Can’t-Miss History Books of 2015

2015 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category
Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “The Year in Reading” 2016
Shortlisted for the 2014 London Hellenic Prize
One of Foreign Affairs’ Best Military, Scientific, and Technological Books of 2015
Selected for American Scientist’s Science Book Gift Guide 2014

Shortlisted for the 2015 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

Winner of the 2013 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society
Winner of the 2012 R. R. Hawkins Award, PROSE Awards, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal Book of the Year Award, History category, ForeWord Reviews
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Classics & Ancient History, Association of American Publishers
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2016
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993

Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League


