Awards & Recognition
¿ìɫֱ²¥ books have won numerous awards, including seven 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, the Holberg Prize, and the Cundill Prize. Every year, ¿ìɫֱ²¥ books are named among the year’s best reads by publications around the world.
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A Financial Times FT Critics' Book of the YearA Next Big Idea Club Top Happiness Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
One of Bloomberg’s Best Nonfiction ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2021Shortlisted for the Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society
Shortlisted for the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021Honorable Mention for the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize
Inside Philanthropy's Philanthropy Critic of 2018One of the LSE Marshall Institute's ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2019
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Of Note in the 2018 Freeman Book Awards (Young Adult / High School ¿ìɫֱ²¥), Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University
Winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
Winner of the 2017 Deutscher Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
Winner of the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHonorable 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 ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of the year 2014, chosen by Thom Shippey
Selected for the Claremont Review of ¿ìɫֱ²¥ CRB Christmas Reading List 2015
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2010 Spitz Prize for the Best Book on Liberal or Democratic Theory, International Conference for the Study of Political ThoughtWinner of the 2009 Alexander L. George Book Award of the International Society of Political Psychology
Winner of the 2001 American Political Science Association's Best First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section
Winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award, The Hannover Institute of Philosophical ResearchAvishai Margalit, Winner of the 2012 Ernst-Bloch-Prize
Winner of the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference/Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the 2012 - 26th Annual Translation Prize in Nonfiction, French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation