Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

Award Winners

1. The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

   Oren Harman

   “Enthralling.”—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book ReviewMore

2. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

   Graham Robb

   The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.More

3. Never-Ending Birds: Poems

   David Baker

   “This collection is moving, emotionally raw, yet subtle and careful.”—Benjamin S. Grossberg, Antioch ReviewMore

4. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

   Jeff Shesol

   "A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals More

5. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

   Michael Lewis

   The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity FairMore

6. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp

   Christopher R. Browning

   "An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostMore

7. The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

   Amanda Hesser

   Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award in General Cooking: All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism-a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything.More

8. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

   Brian Greene

   The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe, now with a new preface and epilogue.More

9. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

   Linda Gordon

   Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.More

10. Sonata Mulattica: Poems

    Rita Dove

    Detailing the volatile relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beethoven, this is a "masterful collection" (Los Angeles Times).More

11. Stitches: A Memoir

    David Small

    The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker).More

12. Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects

    Mark Oldman

    PBS wine guru Mark Oldman quenches the universal thirst for the affordable gems coveted by insiders.More

13. Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

    Morris Dickstein

    A National Book Critics Circle finalist: "The definitive book about Depression culture for our time."—San Francisco ChronicleMore

14. Serious Men: A Novel

    Manu Joseph

    A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements.More

15. The Art and Politics of Science

    Harold Varmus

    A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career.More