Award-winning books of 2024

Celebrating our author’s achievements 

As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on the incredible work of MIT Press authors. We are proud to highlight the awards our authors have received this past year, ranging from literary honors to design accolades. To be the first to hear about awards announcements and other exciting news from the Press, sign up for our newsletter


From Pessimism to Promise by Payal Arora
Longlisted, Porchlight’s Best Business Books of 2024, Innovation and Creativity category

Tech Agnostic by Greg Epstein
Longlisted, Porchlight’s Best Business Books of 2024, Big Ideas and New Perspectives category

Blotter by Erik Davis
Longlisted, 2024 Non-Obvious Book Awards

Recycling Class by Manisha Anantharaman
Honorable Mention, ISA Global Development Section Book Award

We, the Data by Wendy H. Wong
2024 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
Shortlisted, 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize

The Science-Music Borderlands by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loughridge
2024 Ruth A. Solie Award

The Brain Abstracted by Mazviita Chirimuuta
2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy

Mortevivum by Kimberly Juanita Brown
2024 Photography Network Book Prize

The Skills-Powered Organization by Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilashrami
Finalist, 2024 Goody Business Book Awards: Business Management Category

Melancholy Wedgwood by Iris Moon
Shortlisted, 2024 Apollo Awards Book of the Year

Voidopolis by Kat Mustatea
2024 Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards from Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab

Weapons in Space by Aaron Bateman
2024 Air Force Historical Foundation Space History Book Prize

Counting Feminicide by Catherine D’Ignazio
2024 American Book Fest Best Book Award, Women’s Issues & Women’s Studies Category

Tenacious Beasts by Christopher Preston
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Business, Finance, and Management
2024 High Plains Book Award, Non-Fiction category
First Honorable Mention, 2024 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Balkan Cyberia by Victor Petrov
2024 Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize
2024 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize

In Visible Presence by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko
Honorable Mention, 2024 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History
Honorable Mention, 2024 Barbara Heldt Prize for the Best Book Introducing New, Innovative, or Underrepresented Perspectives

Her Space, Her Time by Shohini Ghose
2023 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award, General Category

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern by Jacqueline Taylor
Shortlisted, 2024 DAM Architectural Book Award

Communications Breakdown edited by Johnathan Strahan
2024 Aurora Awards, Best Short Story: “At Every Door A Ghost,” Premee Mohamed

Boston in Transit by Steven Beaucher
2024 New England Society Book Award: Art & Photography

Media Ruins by Margaret Jack
2024 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Best Information Science Book Award

Balkan Cyberia by Victor Petrov
2024 Computer History Museum Book Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SIGCIS)

Visions of a Digital Nation by Jacob Ward
2024 Turriano Prize from the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)

Technology of the Oppressed by David Nemer
2024 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

Prison Media by Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt
2024 International Communication Association (ICA) Best Book Award

To Know Is to Compare by Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski
2024 Global Communication and Social Change (GCSC) Book Award

Technology’s Child by Katie Davis
2023 INDIES GOLD Winner for Science & Technology

Proof and the Art of Mathematics by Joel David Hamkins
2024 Daniel Solow Author’s Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Notebooks of a Wandering Monk by Matthieu Ricard
Silver Winner: 2024 Nautilus Book Awards

On Disinformation by Lee McIntyre
Silver Winner: 2024 Nautilus Book Awards

Wonder by Frank C. Keil
2024 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology

The Strip by Stefan Al
2023 IPPY Award, Architecture: Silver Medal

Workforce Ecosystems by Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz and Robin Jones
2024 Axiom Business Book Awards: Gold Medal in Business Theory

Inside the Competitor’s Mindset by John Horn
2024 Axiom Business Book Awards: Gold Medal in Sales (sales skills, negotiating, closing)

The Myth That Made Us by Jeff Fuhrer
2024 Axiom Business Book Awards: Silver Medal in Economics

Data is Everybody’s Business by Barbara H. Wixom, Cynthia M. Beath and Leslie Owens
2024 Axiom Business Book Awards: Silver Medal in Business Intelligence/Innovation

Building a New Leadership Ladder by Carol J. Geffner
2024 Axiom Business Book Awards: Bronze Medal in Women/BIPOC in Business

The Great Remobilization by Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse
2024 Axiom Business Book Awards: Silver Medal in International Business/Globalization
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Business, Finance, and Management

Mnemonic Ecologies by Sonja K. Pieck
2024 PROSE Award: Area of Excellence Award for Physical Science and Mathematics
2024 PROSE Award Winner: Environmental Science

Ending Epidemics by Richard Conniff
2024 PROSE Award Winner: Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ancient History

The Great Remobilization by Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Business, Finance, and Management

Code to Joy by Michael Littman
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Computing and Information Sciences

More than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Popular Science and Mathematics

Regression Modeling for Linguistic Data by Morgan Sonderegger
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Mathematics and Statistics

Insolvent by Christoph Becker
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Engineering and Technology

Causal Analysis by Martin Huber
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Computing and Information Sciences

The Abundant University by Michael D. Smith
2024 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature

The Power of Partnership in Open Government by Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner and Alex Ingrams
2024 SPAR Best Book Award

Allison Katz: Artery edited by Sam Thorne and Martin Clark
Named one of “The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, 2023”

The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War by Neta C. Crawford
2024 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order


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