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.
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man By Joshua Bennett (ϕBK, University of Pennsylvania), Belknap Press of Harvard
By Joshua Bennett (ϕBK, University of Pennsylvania), Belknap Press of Harvard
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir By Jenn Shapland, Tin House Books
By Jenn Shapland, Tin House Books
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell us About our Past and Future By James Shapiro, Penguin Press
By James Shapiro, Penguin Press
Stranger Faces By Namwali Serpell, Transit Books
By Namwali Serpell, Transit Books
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form By Sianne Ngai (ϕBK, Brown University), Belknap Press of Harvard
By Sianne Ngai (ϕBK, Brown University), Belknap Press of Harvard
Clean: The New Science of Skin By James Hamblin, Riverhead Books
By James Hamblin, Riverhead Books
Galileo and the Science Deniers By Mario Livio, Simon & Schuster
By Mario Livio, Simon & Schuster
Mathematics for Human Flourishing By Francis Su (ϕBK, University of Texas at Austin), Yale University Press
By Francis Su (ϕBK, University of Texas at Austin), Yale University Press
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World By Sarah Steward Johnson (ϕBK, Washington University in St. Louis), Crown
By Sarah Steward Johnson (ϕBK, Washington University in St. Louis), Crown
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender By Eugenia Cheng, Basic Books
By Eugenia Cheng, Basic Books
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for our Own By Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Crown
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Crown
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War By Alice Baumgartner (ϕBK, Yale College), Basic Books
By Alice Baumgartner (ϕBK, Yale College), Basic Books
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War By Vincent Brown, Belknap Press of Harvard
By Vincent Brown, Belknap Press of Harvard
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States By Walter Johnson (ϕBK, Amherst College), Basic Books
By Walter Johnson (ϕBK, Amherst College), Basic Books
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory By Claudio Saunt (ϕBK, Columbia College), W. W. Norton
By Claudio Saunt (ϕBK, Columbia College), W. W. Norton
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