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The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2022 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 Aurora Sherman. The winners will be announced in October.
The Christian Gauss Award

 
 
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

By George Saunders, 
Random House

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Books Promiscuously Read

By Heather Cass White,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Love's Shadow

By Paul A. Bové (ΦBK, University of Pittsburgh), 
Harvard University Press

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Orwell's Roses

By Rebecca Solnit, 
Viking

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Read until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

By Farah Jasmine Griffin, 
W.W. Norton

The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

 
 
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By Frank Wilczek (ΦBK, University of Chicago),
Penguin Press

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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else

By Jordan Ellenberg (ΦBK, Harvard University),
Penguin Press

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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By Margaret D. Lowman,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,
Bold Type Books

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You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation

By Paul Offit,
Basic Books

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

 
 
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By Tiya Alica Miles,
Random House

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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

By Nicole Eustace​,
Liveright

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Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

By Elizabeth D. Samet (ΦBK, Harvard University)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

By Linda Colley,
Liveright

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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

By Mia Bay,
Belknap Press of Harvard

Staff Contact


Please email Aurora Sherman at asherman@pbk.org with any inquiries or call (202) 745-3287. 

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