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The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2023 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 Hadley Kelly. The winners will be announced in October.
The Christian Gauss Award

 
 
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Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present

 

By Dennis Tyler,
NYU Press

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Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

By Jane F. Thrailkill,
University of Pennsylvania Press 

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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

By Azar Nafisi, 
Dey Street Books

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The Secret Life of Literature

By Lisa Zunshine, 
The MIT Press

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What is American Literature?

By Ilan Stavans, 
Oxford University Press

The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

 
 
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A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet & Disease

By Shilpa Ravella,
W. W. Norton & Company

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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems 

By Joseph L. Graves Jr.,
Basic Books

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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
 

By Jennifer Raff,
Twelve

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Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

By Nicole Yunger Halpern (ΦBK, Dartmouth College), 
Johns Hopkins University Press

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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

By Temple Grandin,
Riverhead Books

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

 
 
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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance 

By Joseph Luzzi,
W. W. Norton & Company 

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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

By Darryl Pinckney​,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War

By Deborah Cohen (ΦBK, Radcliffe College), 
Random House

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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

By Kerri K. Greenidge,
Liveright

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Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By Dan Flores,
W. W. Norton & Company 

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Please email Hadley Kelly at hkelly@pbk.org with any inquiries. 

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