Who wins the prizes
The reference book prizes of 2023 to 2026 in Europe and the United States, kept to the experts of the directory: selected podcast experts and selected book authors. Each name opens the expert, each title opens the prize-listed book when it was found in the library catalogues.
Prizes64With at least one expert, out of 66
Distinctions702Out of 1,118 for all authors
Experts distinguished604Winners, finalists and lists
Winners177Experts who won at least one prize
64 prizes
| Prize | Field | Country | Experts | Winners | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cundill History Prize | General non-fiction | Canada | 47 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction | General non-fiction | United Kingdom | 43 | 2 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Deutscher Wirtschaftsbuchpreis | Economics & Finance | Germany | 41 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis | General non-fiction | Germany | 40 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Deutscher Sachbuchpreis (German Non-Fiction Prize) | General non-fiction | Germany | 33 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Orwell Prize for Political Writing | Democracy & Media | United Kingdom | 29 | 2 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| FT Business Book of the Year | Economics & Finance | United Kingdom | 26 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| National Book Award for Nonfiction | General non-fiction | United States | 25 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing | Work & Society | UK | 23 | 1 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| getAbstract International Book Award | Economics & Finance | Switzerland (ceremony at Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany) | 21 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize | Technology & Digital Policy | United Kingdom | 20 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Lionel Gelber Prize | Geopolitics & Security | Canada | 17 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Prix Turgot du meilleur livre d'économie financière | Economics & Finance | France | 17 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Pushkin House Book Prize | Geopolitics & Security | United Kingdom | 17 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding | Geopolitics & Security | United Kingdom | 16 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing | Energy & Climate | United Kingdom | 16 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (Lukas Prize Project) | Work & Society | United States | 15 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Hayek Book Prize | Economics & Finance | United States | 13 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize | General non-fiction | United Kingdom | 13 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing | Democracy & Media | Canada | 13 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| SEJ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award | Energy & Climate | USA | 12 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction | General non-fiction | United States | 11 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History | Geopolitics & Security | United Kingdom | 10 | 2 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Prix du Livre Politique | Democracy & Media | France | 10 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Prix lycéen du livre de SES | Economics & Finance | France | 10 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| PROSE Awards (Legal Studies and Criminology; Computing and Information Sciences; Economics; Government and Politics; Business, Finance and Management) | Law & Institutions | United States | 9 | 5 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Prix Jacques Delors du Livre européen | Geopolitics & Security | Belgique/France | 9 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Arthur Ross Book Award | Geopolitics & Security | United States | 8 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Prix Médicis essai | General non-fiction | France | 8 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Prix du Livre Environnement (Fondation Veolia) | Energy & Climate | France | 8 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Goldsmith Book Prize | Democracy & Media | United States | 7 | 7 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize | General non-fiction | United Kingdom | 7 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2026 |
| Premio Strega Saggistica | General non-fiction | Italy | 7 | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Prix du livre de géopolitique | Geopolitics & Security | France | 7 | 5 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| ABA Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts (Books category) | Law & Institutions | United States | 6 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| ASIL Certificates of Merit (book awards) | Law & Institutions | United States | 6 | 6 | 2023, 2024, 2026 |
| Prix Edgar Faure de littérature politique | Law & Institutions | France | 6 | 5 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Prix Femina essai | General non-fiction | France | 6 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award | Work & Society | USA | 4 | 1 | 2024, 2025 |
| James Willard Hurst Jr. Book Prize | Law & Institutions | United States | 4 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2026 |
| Philip Taft Labor History Book Award | Work & Society | United States | 4 | 4 | 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon | Geopolitics & Security | Switzerland | 4 | 4 | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Prix de l'Essai (Académie française) | General non-fiction | France | 4 | 4 | 2023, 2025, 2026 |
| Prix lycéen « Lire l'économie » | Economics & Finance | France | 4 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| APSA Gladys M. Kammerer Award | Democracy & Media | United States | 3 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2026 |
| Airey Neave Book Prize | Geopolitics & Security | United Kingdom | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| C. Wright Mills Award | Work & Society | USA | 3 | 2 | 2023, 2024 |
| Hillman Prize for Book Journalism | Work & Society | United States | 3 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Order of the Coif Book Award | Law & Institutions | United States | 3 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (and Margaret Brazier Prize) | Law & Institutions | United Kingdom | 3 | 1 | 2025, 2026 |
| Prix du livre d'économie | Economics & Finance | France | 3 | 3 | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| AoIR Nancy Baym Annual Book Award | Technology & Digital Policy | International | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Grand prix de l'essai (Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique) | General non-fiction | Belgium | 2 | 2 | 2023, 2025 |
| Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order | Democracy & Media | USA | 2 | 2 | 2024, 2026 |
| Herbert Jacob Book Prize | Law & Institutions | United States | 2 | · | 2024, 2026 |
| ISA John Ruggie Best Book Award | Geopolitics & Security | United States | 2 | 2 | 2024, 2025 |
| Prix Vauban | Geopolitics & Security | France | 2 | 2 | 2023, 2024 |
| Prix du livre juridique (and Prix du livre de la pratique juridique) | Law & Institutions | France | 2 | 2 | 2023, 2025 |
| Sidney Edelstein Prize | Technology & Digital Policy | International (US-based society) | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Inner Temple Book Prize (Main Prize and New Authors Prize) | Law & Institutions | United Kingdom | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung | Geopolitics & Security | Germany | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Merze Tate - Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award (formerly Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award) | Law & Institutions | United States | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Prix des Ambassadeurs | Geopolitics & Security | France | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Prix du livre de la Branche française de l'International Law Association | Law & Institutions | France | 1 | 1 | 2025 |