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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Winner of the PROSE Award in Earth Science, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards
Winner of the ASLI Choice Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians InternationalWinner of the PROSE Award in Earth Science, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Special Book Award, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Winner of the Award of Excellence in Plants and Environmental Change, Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
Syukuro Manabe, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyFinalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Award, PEN American Center
One of EcoLit Books' Best Environmental Books of 2018
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
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
Jean Jouzel, one of the two winners of the Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation for 2012
Winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation For the FutureOne of The Australian's Best Books of 2009
Selected to appear on ClimateUnited's Booklist of Top Books on Climate Change
Winner of the 2015 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the ArtsHonorable Mention for the 2014 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Alison Stokes
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2015 Louis J. Battan Author’s Award, American Meteorological Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000