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 Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: From Space to Chinese Noir”
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kaushik Basu)
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society


One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012

Shortlisted for the 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association


Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers

2017 Bronze Winner in Philosophy, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winner of a 2018 Outstanding Achievement Title Award, Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards


One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the year 2014, chosen by Thom Shippey
Selected for the Claremont Review of Books CRB Christmas Reading List 2015

Winner of the 2003 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

Winner of the 2009 Alexander L. George Book Award of the International Society of Political Psychology

Finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in History

A New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Honor Award for 2012




Avishai Margalit, Winner of the 2012 Ernst-Bloch-Prize





One of Amazon.com's Best Nonfiction Books for 2005
Winner of the 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005


One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004


Winner of the David Easton Award


Harry G. Frankfurt, 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies




Harry G. Frankfurt, 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies
Winner of the 2005 Bestseller Award in Philosophy, The Book Standard
Listed on the 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List

Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998
Winner of the 1997 Book Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal