Award-Winning Books

Featured award-winning titles

Recent Awards

A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
, National Indie Excellence Book Awards - Multicultural Nonfiction
A Requiem for Queer Suicide
, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award
A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma
, College Theology Society Book Award
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
, 2025 IPPY AWARD, MULTICULTURAL NON-FICTION – ADULT (GOLD)
New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
, Gotham Book Award
Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right
, Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Jackets and Covers Category
The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing
, Javier Coy Biennial Research Award, Best Monograph
, The French-American Foundation Translation Prize
The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands
, Carolina's Outstanding Contribution to Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Award
Life and Law in Delhi's Courts
, Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize
A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865
, Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize
New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
Shortlisted, Gotham Book Award
History and Citizenship after State Violence
, The L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies

Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil
, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies
Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability
, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies
A New History of Skaldic Poetics
, Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia
, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize
Untimely Notes on Names and Desires
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
, 2024 Beat Studies Association Awards
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
, 2024 Best Indie Books Awards, Culinary Memoir
History and Citizenship after State Violence
, MELA Book Awards
A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals
, Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess
, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize
History and Citizenship after State Violence
, African Studies Association Best Book Prize
Confessions of a Young Lord
, American Book Award
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
, 2024 Living Now Book Award, Inspirational Memoir – Male (BRONZE)
Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety
, Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for Best Monograph
, Independent Publisher Book Awards | IPPY Book Awards, LGBTQ+ Fiction
Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury
, College Theology Society Book Award
, The VCU-Cabell First Novelist Award
The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II
, Society for Military History Distinguished Book Awards - First Book
A Performative Theory of Political Trials
, SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize
Property Law and Postcolonial Style
, Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
Untimely Notes on Names and Desires
, Publishing Triangle Awards: The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
, Victorian Society in America Book Award
A Performative Theory of Political Trials
, The Hart–SLSA Book Prize
Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
, FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Publiciation Award
Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy
, AHA Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize

, 2023 Best Indie Book Awards, LGBTQ2 Fiction
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
, The Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize in Human Sexuality & Anthropology
Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class
, David Easton Award
Architect Charles B. J. Snyder and the New York City Public Schools
, The Victorian Society New York Book Award
The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity
, Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction
A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
, Independent Publisher Book Awards | IPPY Book Awards, LGBTQ+ Fiction
An Urban Mosaic
, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant
A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
, Publishing Triangle Awards
Daily Meditations from the Plague Year
, AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, Trade Typographic
Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park
, Victorian Society in America Book Award
A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
, Lambda Literary Award in Gay Memoir/Biography
Thinking through Synesthesia
, Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children
, Albertine Translation Fund and Prizes
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
, Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize
Between Piety and Subversion
, Albertine Translation Fund and Prizes

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia
, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award
A Theory of Speculative Critique
, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
, James Russell Lowell Prize
Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism
, Marilyn Gaull Book Award
Language and the Media of Sociality
, The L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies
Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain
, Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize
Inheriting the Korean War
, Victor Turner Prize
Inheriting the Korean War
, Association for Feminist Anthropology Senior Book Prize
Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
, Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies
, Association of Catholic Publishers 2022 Excellence in Publishing Awards: First Place, Theology Catholic Media Association, Honorable Mention in Theology: Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption
Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education
, Third Place - Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching
A Critical Edition
, Ezra Pound Society Book Prize
Waking Up from Petroculture
, Alanna Bodnar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities
Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
, René Wellek Prize
Environmental Crisis and World Literature
, ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award
A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - 2021 BRONZE Winner for Biography
Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability
, Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
The Making of Concretism in Brazil
, Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category
, Association of Catholic Publishers 2022 Excellence in Publishing Awards: First Place, Theology
On Queer Theory and Erotophobia
, Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
, The French-American Foundation Translation Prize
Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide
, The Frantz Fanon Prize
Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life
, HTI Book Prize

Satan and Cinema
, Bram Stoker Awards
A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
, PROSE Awards Category Winner - Biography & Autobiography
The Trials of James Collins Johnson
, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors' Awards Program
A Critical Edition
, MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition
Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics
, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
, Ruth Benedict Book Prize
Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal
, African Literature Association First Book Award
On a New Political Imperative
, Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress
, American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize
Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean
, Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
, Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
, Publishing Triangle Awards
Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form
, MSA First Book Award

Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics
, William Sanders Scarborough Prize
The Trials of James Collins Johnson
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Environmental Crisis and World Literature
, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
Plants and Speculative Fiction
, SFTS Book Prize
Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World
, Nautilus Award
The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
, American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize
Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965
, Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award
The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
, Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
On the Accommodation of Violent Death
, The French-American Foundation Translation Prize

, The French-American Foundation Translation Prize
Film between Italy and the United States
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
A Memoir in Essays
, IASA Book Award
The Aesthetics of Possibility
, Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award
Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva
, Frederick Streng Book Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies
A Memoir in Essays
, American Book Award
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
, Edinburgh Gadda Prize
A Critical Edition
, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
, Maine Literary Award
, Julie Suk Award
An Ecology of Separation
, Grand Prize Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
Reexamining Reciprocity
, The French Voices Translation Award

Philosophy, Literature
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Health, Disease, Poverty
, Association for Feminist Anthropology Senior Book Prize
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
, Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
, MLA Howard R. Marraro Prize
Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility
, MLA Prize for a First Book
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
, DAAD/GSA Book Prize
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
, Arab American Book Award
Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
, American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize
Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
, J. Owen Grundy History Award

Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
Shortlisted, ACE Mercers' Award
, Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award
Orality and Its Technologies
, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Poems
, Northern California Book Award in Poetry
Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
, Sonya Rudikoff NVSA Book Award
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
, New York City Book Awards, Hornblower Award for a First Book
Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
, Harry Levin Prize

Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy
, Courage to Dream Book Prize
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
, William Sanders Scarborough Prize
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
, Washington State Book Awards
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy
, American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
, Religion Newswriters Association
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
, Catholic Press Awards
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
, ACP Excellence in Publishing Awards in the Biography Category
Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio
, Broadcast Historian Award
, Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
, The Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Book Prize
Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
, European Studies Book Award
Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
, Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title

Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament
, Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book
Oral Histories of India's Partition
, NCA Ethnography Division Best Book Award
Oral Histories of India's Partition
, Outstanding Book, International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association
The Peacock and Beauty in Art
, Award for Excellence, Greater Hudson Heritage Network
The Historical Formation of Human Rights
, Robert Lowry Patten Award
Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion
, American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence, Constructive-Reflective Studies
, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize
Oral Histories of India's Partition
, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Book Award
, John Nicholas Brown Prize
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
, John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer in Popular and American Culture
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
, Wallace K. Ferguson Award
Conversations with Dan Arbib
, Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
, The Florence Gould Foundation and the French-American Foundations Translation Prize
2012 and Other Ends of the World
, Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
When Are We Ever at Home?
, Grand Prize Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title

The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
, Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Award
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
, Harry Levin Prize
An Archive
, Harry Levin Prize
The Postmonolingual Condition
, Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
, 2013 French Voices Prize
Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title

Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
, South Central Modern Language Association Book Award
Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court
, The Smith Prize
Intersections in Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-first Century
, Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award
The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
, Hortense Simmons Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge
Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando furioso'
, American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque)
Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
, Harry Levin Prize

Essays in the Politics of Culture
, Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year
The Postmonolingual Condition
, Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
, Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's Death
, MLA Howard R. Marraro Prize
Growing up in New York City's Catholic Orphanages
, USA Best Book Awards
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
, NJSAA Authors Awards
Educating the Faith That Does Justice
, Catholic Press Awards

, AAS SAC Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation
The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
, Victor Turner Prize
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
, William Noe Field Award for Catholic New Jersey History

Freud and the Jewish Question
, Gradiva Book Award for Best Historical Book
The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
, Edmund Keeley Book Prize
Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature
, Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
, PEN Literary Award in Poetry
New York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis
, The New York City Book Awards
Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
, AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category
The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
, Prose Award in Archeology and Anthropology
The Grand Concourse at 100
, 2010 Merit Award in the Scholarly and Professional Category

New York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis
, Greater Hudson Heritage Network Annual Awards Towards Excellence
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
, Isabel G. MacCaffrey Prize for the Best Book on Spenser and Renaissance Literature
Looking for the Man in the Monuments
, J. Owen Grundy History Award

The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
, René Wellek Prize

, Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination
, National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

, Violet Crown Award