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The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2024 Book Awards Short List

           


The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:

The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.

Finalists and award-winning authors are selected by a panel of experts in each category. Award-winning authors will each receive a $10,000 prize. For more information please email Mary Schommer. The winners will be announced in October.
The Christian Gauss Award

 
 
Chapter

The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

By Nicholas Dames,
Princeton University Press

Age of Guilt

The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World

By Mark Edmundson,
Yale University Press 

Hannah Crafts

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

By Gregg Hecimovich, 
Ecco

political disappointment

Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis

By Sara Marcus, 
The The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

culture

Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop 

By Martin Puchner, 
 W. W. Norton & Company

The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

 
 
invisibility

Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen

By Gregory Gbur,
Yale University Press

ages of water

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future 

By Peter Gleick,
Hachette Book Group/PublicAffairs

blight

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By Emily Monosson,
W. W. Norton & Company

Determined

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By Robert M. Sapolsky 
Penguin Press

one cell

From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine

By Ben Stanger,
W. W. Norton & Company

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

 
 
rediscovery of america

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History 

By Ned Blackhawk,
Yale University Press

time's echo

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

By Jeremy Eichler,
Alfred A. Knopf

before the movement

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

By Dylan Penningroth 
Liveright

migrant souls

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

By Héctor Tobar,
MCD

masterslave

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By Ilyon Woo,
Simon & Schuster

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Please email Mary Schommer at mschommer@pbk.org with any inquiries.