The Association of American Publishers has announced the 37 category winners for the 49th annual PROSE Awards, honoring professional and scholarly works published in 2024.
The 37 category winners will now be eligible for the next level of PROSE honors, the Awards for Excellence, which will be announced in the coming weeks. The Prose Awards for Excellence recognize books in four categories: Biological and Life Sciences; Humanities; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; and Social Sciences.
Of the four winners of the Awards for Excellence, one will receive the PROSE Award’s highest honor: the R.R. Hawkins Award.
This year's category winners include:
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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan (Morrow)
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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Princeton)
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The Basque Witch-Hunt by Jan Machielsen (Bloomsbury)
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States by Matthew D. Morrison (University of California)
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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback (Knopf)
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor (Belknap)
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen (Grand Central)
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Mies van der Rohe by Dietrich Neumann (Yale)
The full list of the 2025 PROSE Award category winners and finalists can be found here.
