Awards & Accolades

100 Stars That Explain the Universe
by Florian Freistetter

★ 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
by Adam Rutherford

★ A National Bestseller
National Book Critics Circle Award—2017 Nonfiction Finalist
A National Geographic Best Book of 2017
An Amazon Best Book of 2017
2017 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
Winner of the 2018 Thomas Bonner Book Prize
A New York Public Library Book of the Day

A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures
by Sami Bayly

★ #1 Indie Bestseller
2021 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
Kansas NEA Reading Circle Junior Level 2021
Amazon Editors’ Pick—Best Nonfiction for Kids
Shortlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards, Best Children’s Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia 2021 Book of the Year

A Curious Collection of Peculiar Creatures
by Sami Bayly

★ An Indie Bestseller
Amazon Editors’ Pick—Best Nonfiction for Kids
An Indie Book Awards Best Children's Book of the Year
2020 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner

A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention
by Rebecca Schiller

★ A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick

A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention
by Rebecca Schiller

★ A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick

A Woman on the Edge of Time
by Jeremy Gavron

★ Shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
by Ali Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo

★ An Indie Bestseller

Atom Land
by Jon Butterworth

★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
An Amazon Best Book of March—Nonfiction

Baby-Led Weaning
by Gill Rapley, Tracey Murkett

★ Winner of the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award, 2011

Breathe, Mama, Breathe
by Shonda Moralis

★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner

Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds
by Ian Wright, Infographic.ly

★ An Indie Bestseller
2019 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
2019 OWL Award Winner—Gift & Special Interest
A Junior Library Guild Selection

But I Could Never Go Vegan!
by Kristy Turner

★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Goodreads Award finalist

But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan!
by Kristy Turner

★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner

Caribbean Vegan
by Taymer Mason

★ 2017 Gourmand Award Winner, Vegan Cookbook, Barbados

Citizen Scientist
by Mary Ellen Hannibal

★ A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016
A 2016 Nautilus Award Winner, Ecology & Environment
A 2017 Northern California Book Award finalist

Clean Enough
by Katzie Guy-Hamilton

★ An Amazon Best Book of January—Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Dear Oliver
by Susan R. Barry, Oliver Sacks (Contributor)

★ A Main Selection of the Library of Science Book Club
One of The Telegraph’s 10 essential new books to read in 2024

Demagoguery and Democracy
by Patricia Roberts-Miller

★ The 2019–2020 First Year Book selection of the University of Maryland, College Park

East Meets Vegan
by Sasha Gill

★ An Amazon Best Book of March—Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Engineering Eden
by Jordan Fisher Smith

★ Winner of the California Book Award, Silver Medal for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing
One of Outside magazine’s 10 Outdoor Books that Shaped the Last Decade

Forks Over Knives
by Gene Stone

★ #1 New York Times Bestseller

Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook
by Del Sroufe

★ New York Times Bestseller

Freedom
by Nathan Law, Evan Fowler

★ 2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Award Best Political Book

Fresh from Poland
by Michał Korkosz

★ An Indie Bestseller
A Booklist Top 10 Cookbook of 2020
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Cookbook of 2020

Generation Dread
by Britt Wray, Adam McKay (Foreword)

★ A CBC best Canadian nonfiction book of 2022
An Indigo top ten best self-help book of 2022
Finalist for the Governor General’s literary award

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
by Anna Mehler Paperny

★ Finalist For The 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize For Nonfiction
An International Bestseller

Hitler’s Boy Soldiers
by Helene Munson

★ Selection in the History Book Club and Military Book Club

How to Argue With a Racist
by Adam Rutherford

★ An International Bestseller
One of New Scientist’s 13 Best Science and Technology Books of 2020
A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Book of 2020, Science & Technology, Runner Up
One of BBC Science Focus Magazine’s 28 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020
One of Big Think’s 10 Best Science and Technology Books of 2020
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

How to Argue With a Racist
by Adam Rutherford

How to Be a Sister
by Eileen Garvin

★ An IndieBound Indie Next List Pick

How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate
by Seth B. Darling, Douglas L. Sisterson

★ Books for a Better Life Award—Green category finalist

How to Land a Plane
by Mark Vanhoenacker

★ Daily Mail and Spectator Book of the Year, 2017
A Points Guy Best Travel Book of 2019

How to Read a Tree
by Tristan Gooley

★ Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
An Indie Bestseller

How to Read Nature
by Tristan Gooley

★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner

How to Read Water
by Tristan Gooley

★ A New York Times Bestseller
A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016
2016 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner

How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper

★ As heard on NPR’s Science Friday

How We Do Family
by Trystan Reese

★ 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist

Humanimal
by Adam Rutherford

★ An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019

Humble
by Daryl Van Tongeren

★ A University of California Favorite Book of 2022

Humble
by Daryl Van Tongeren

★ A University of California Favorite Book of 2022

In Search of Common Ground
by Bastian Berbner

★ 2022 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner
2022 OWL Award Longlist—Community Read

In Vino Duplicitas
by Peter Hellman

★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner

It’s a Numberful World
by Eddie Woo

★ 2021 Mathical Honor Book

Juice + Nourish
by Rosemary Ferguson

★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Kids Cook Gluten-Free
by Peter Bronski, Kelli Bronski

★ An Amazon Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks

Know It All
by New Scientist, Mick O'Hare

★ A Guardian Top 10 Science and Technology book

Let’s Cook!, Revised Edition
by Elizabeth D. Riesz, Anne Kissack

★ Midwest Book Achievement Award for Best Cookbook of the Year

Moimoi—Look at Me!
by Kazuo Hiraki, Jun Ichihara

★ Amazon Editors’ Picks—Best Children's Book, Baby to Age 2

Monarchs of the Sea
by Danna Staaf

★ A Science Friday Book Club Pick

My Caesarean
by Amanda Fields, Rachel Moritz

★ 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair

★ New York Times Bestseller 2015
INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Autobiography & Memoir

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair

★ New York Times Bestseller
2015 INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Autobiography & Memoir

Newborn 101
by Carole Kramer Arsenault

★ National Parenting Publications Gold Award Winner
Mom’s Choice Awards Gold Winner

Nineteen Reservoirs
by Lucy Sante, Tim Davis (Photographs)

★ A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
An Indie Bestseller

Nineteen Reservoirs
by Lucy Sante, Tim Davis (Photographs)

★ A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
An Indie Bestseller

North American Maps for Curious Minds
by Matthew Bucklan, Victor Cizek, Jack Dunnington

★ An Indie Bestseller

Nosh on This
by Lisa Stander-Horel, Tim Horel

★ National Jewish Book Award, Finalist, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice

Nothing
by New Scientist, Jeremy Webb

★ A GeekWrapped.com Top 50 Best Science Book of All Time, and one of Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2014

Ocean Greens
by Lisette Kreischer, Marcel Schuttelaar

★ A 2017 IACP Award Finalist

One Magic Square Vegetable Gardening
by Lolo Houbein

★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Crafts, Hobbies & Home
2016 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention

Oodles and Oodles of Vegan Noodles
by Cheynese Khachame

★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Outsmart Your Pain
by Christiane Wolf, Daniel J. Siegel

★ A Best Mindfulness Book of 2021 —Mindful.org

Patterns of the Universe
by Alex Bellos, Edmund Harriss

★ 2016 Academics’ Choice Smart Book Award Winner
One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Planet of the Ants
by Susanne Foitzik, Olaf Fritsche

★ A Main Selection of the Library Science Book Club
Shortlisted for the 2022 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize

Plant-Based India
by Sheil Shukla

★ A 2023 James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee
A New York Times Best Cookbook of 2022
A WBUR/Here and Now Best Cookbook of the Year
A Food Network Best Vegan Cookbook of 2022
A Forks Over Knives Favorite Plant-Based Book of 2022
Amazon Editors’ Picks: Best Cookbook
2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist

Plant-Powered for Life
by Sharon Palmer

★ Books for a Better Life Award—Wellness category finalist

Polar Vortex
by Denise Dorrance

★ Winner of the LDComics Rosalind B. Penfold Prize
Short-listed for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition

Polish’d
by Michał Korkosz

★ #1 International Bestseller
Recommended by the Polish Cultural Institute New York

Prisoners of Geography
by Tim Marshall, Grace Easton, Jessica Smith

★ Kansas NEA Reading Circle Junior Level 2021
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2019
Shortlisted for Children’s Travel Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020

Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater
by Nimali Fernando, Melanie Potock

★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner

Resilient Grieving
by Lucy Hone

★ As heard on NPR’s Hidden Brain and CBS News
2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner

Resilient Grieving
by Lucy Hone

★ As heard on NPR’s Hidden Brain and CBS News
2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner

Retracing the Iron Curtain
by Timothy Phillips

★ A Guardian best history and politics book of 2022

Sightlines
by Kathleen Jamie

★ John Burroughs Association’s 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book
2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction
Dolman Travel Book of the Year for 2013