Catalog
Awards & Accolades
by Florian Freistetter
★ 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist
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
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
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
by Rebecca Schiller
★ A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick
by Rebecca Schiller
★ A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick
by Jeremy Gavron
★ Shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize
by Ali Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo
★ An Indie Bestseller
by Jon Butterworth
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
An Amazon Best Book of March—Nonfiction
by Gill Rapley, Tracey Murkett
★ Winner of the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award, 2011
by Shonda Moralis
★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner
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
by Kristy Turner
★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Goodreads Award finalist
by Kristy Turner
★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner
by Taymer Mason
★ 2017 Gourmand Award Winner, Vegan Cookbook, Barbados
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
by Katzie Guy-Hamilton
★ An Amazon Best Book of January—Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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
by Patricia Roberts-Miller
★ The 2019–2020 First Year Book selection of the University of Maryland, College Park
by Sasha Gill
★ An Amazon Best Book of March—Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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
by Gene Stone
★ #1 New York Times Bestseller
by Del Sroufe
★ New York Times Bestseller
by Nathan Law, Evan Fowler
★ As seen on the PBS/POV documentary Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?
2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Award Best Political Book
by Michał Korkosz
★ An Indie Bestseller
A Booklist Top 10 Cookbook of 2020
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Cookbook of 2020
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
by Anna Mehler Paperny
★ Finalist For The 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize For Nonfiction
An International Bestseller
by Helene Munson
★ Selection in the History Book Club and Military Book Club
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
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
by Eileen Garvin
★ An IndieBound Indie Next List Pick
by Seth B. Darling, Douglas L. Sisterson
★ Books for a Better Life Award—Green category finalist
by Mark Vanhoenacker
★ Daily Mail and Spectator Book of the Year, 2017
A Points Guy Best Travel Book of 2019
by Tristan Gooley
★ Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
An Indie Bestseller
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist
by Tristan Gooley
★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
by Tristan Gooley
★ A New York Times Bestseller
A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016
2016 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
by Rowan Hooper
★ As heard on NPR’s Science Friday
by Trystan Reese
★ 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist
by Adam Rutherford
★ An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019
by Daryl Van Tongeren
★ A University of California Favorite Book of 2022
by Daryl Van Tongeren
★ A University of California Favorite Book of 2022
by Bastian Berbner
★ 2022 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner
2022 OWL Award Longlist—Community Read
by Peter Hellman
★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by Eddie Woo
★ 2021 Mathical Honor Book
by Rosemary Ferguson
★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by Peter Bronski, Kelli Bronski
★ An Amazon Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks
by New Scientist, Mick O'Hare
★ A Guardian Top 10 Science and Technology book
by Elizabeth D. Riesz, Anne Kissack
★ Midwest Book Achievement Award for Best Cookbook of the Year
by Kazuo Hiraki, Jun Ichihara
★ Amazon Editors’ Picks—Best Children's Book, Baby to Age 2
by Danna Staaf
★ A Science Friday Book Club Pick
by Amanda Fields, Rachel Moritz
★ 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner
by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair
★ New York Times Bestseller 2015
INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Autobiography & Memoir
by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair
★ New York Times Bestseller
2015 INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Autobiography & Memoir
by Carole Kramer Arsenault
★ National Parenting Publications Gold Award Winner
Mom’s Choice Awards Gold Winner
by Lucy Sante, Tim Davis (Photographs)
★ A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
An Indie Bestseller
by Lucy Sante, Tim Davis (Photographs)
★ A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
An Indie Bestseller
by Matthew Bucklan, Victor Cizek, Jack Dunnington
★ An Indie Bestseller
by Lisa Stander-Horel, Tim Horel
★ National Jewish Book Award, Finalist, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
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
by Lisette Kreischer, Marcel Schuttelaar
★ A 2017 IACP Award Finalist
by Lolo Houbein
★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Crafts, Hobbies & Home
2016 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
by Cheynese Khachame
★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by Christiane Wolf, Daniel J. Siegel
★ A Best Mindfulness Book of 2021 —Mindful.org
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
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
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
Featured in a Jeopardy! question
by Sharon Palmer
★ Books for a Better Life Award—Wellness category finalist
by Denise Dorrance
★ Winner of the LDComics Rosalind B. Penfold Prize
Short-listed for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition
A New York Public Library 2024 Best New Comics for Adults
by Michał Korkosz
★ #1 International Bestseller
Recommended by the Polish Cultural Institute New York
2023 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
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
by Lucy Hone
★ As heard on NPR’s Hidden Brain and CBS News
2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
by Lucy Hone
★ As heard on NPR’s Hidden Brain and CBS News
2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
by Timothy Phillips
★ A Guardian best history and politics book of 2022
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
by Ian Brown
★ Shortlisted for the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
A CBC Best Book of the Year
A Globe and Mail Best Book [2015]
by Nicola Lathey, Tracey Blake
★ 2014 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Parenting Resources Competition, Silver Award (Education category)
by Sten Odenwald, John Mather
★ A Junior Library Guild Selection
by John Cassidy, Sir Quentin Blake
★ Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner (1999)
National Parenting Publications Gold Award Winner (1999)
by Mike Parker Pearson
★ Named by the American Library Association’s Choice Magazine an Outstanding Academic Title of 2013
by Michelle Brody
★ 2015 INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Family & Relationships
by Jessica Nadel
★ Shortlisted for the 2016 Taste Canada Award
by David Barrie
★ A 2019 Nautilus Gold Award Winner, Animals & Nature
A Sunday Times Best Nature Book of the Year
by Stefan Klein
★ A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
by Alice Roberts
★ An Economist and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year
by Ben Miller
★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by Sarah Kucera, Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar
★ A 2019 Nautilus Silver Award Winner, Body, Mind, & Spirit Practices
by Carole Kramer Arsenault
★ 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Parenting Resources Competition, Gold Award
by Gill Rapley, Tracey Murkett
★ 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award
by Gill Rapley, Tracey Murkett
★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner
by Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard, Bill Bryson
★ A 2019 Nautilus Silver Award Winner, Heroic Journeys
A Summer 2019 B&N Discover Great New Writers selection
by Adam Rutherford
★ An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019
by Will Butler-Adams, Dan Davies
★ A Times (UK) Best Business Book of the Year
by Catherine Jones, Elaine B. Trujillo, Malden Nesheim
★ The Amsterdam Book Award, winner
The Hoffer Book Award, winner
Feathered Quill Book Awards—1st place in Self-Help
by Diane Ehrensaft
★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
by Thomas Ramge, Jan Schwochow, Adrian Garcia-Landa (Contributor)
★ 2019 Axiom Business Book Award—Economics Gold Medalist
by Roman Krznaric
★ 2020 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
As heard on NPR’s TED Radio Hour
by Roman Krznaric
★ 2020 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
As heard on NPR’s TED Radio Hour
by Rina Mae Acosta, Michele Hutchison
★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
by Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores d’Arcais, Elizabeth Kolbert
★ A National Geographic UK Best Travel Book of 2020
A Main Selection of the Library Science Book Club
2020 Foreword INDIES Finalist
by Alex Bellos
★ International Bestseller
by Fiona Lowenstein
★ 2022 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
As heard on NPR’s It’s Been a Minute
by Tristan Gooley
★ Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
Winner of the Outdoor Book of the Year, The Great Outdoors Awards 2015, 2015 INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Adventure Recreation
by Emma Farrarons
★ #1 National Bestseller
NPR Books Bestseller
#1 Boston Globe Bestseller
#1 San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
by Emma Farrarons
★ National Bestseller
by Anna Borges
★ 2019 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by Laura Jean Baker
★ Winner of the 2018 Norbert Blei/August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award, from the Council for Wisconsin Writers
by Tristan Gooley
★ An Amazon Most Anticipated Fall Book for Nonfiction
by Matt Frazier, Stepfanie Romine
★ A Sports Illustrated Best Health and Wellness Book of 2017
2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
by Jessica Wapner
★ Named by The Wall Street Journal one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2013
by Mike Vago
★ Winner of the 2024 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
by Andrea Duclos
★ One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by Tristan Gooley
★ A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick
Telegraph Best Books of 2021
by Linda Jaivin
★ World 50 Book Club Pick
by James Hawes
★ A #1 International Bestseller
A Der Spiegel "Most Provoking Book of the Year"
by James Heneage
★ A Daily Mail History Book of the Year
by Michael Scott-Baumann
★ Indie Bestseller
by Florian Freistetter
★ 2021 Foreward Indies Finalist
by Wes Allison, Stephanie Bogdanich, Molly Frisinger, Jessica Morris
★ VegNews’ Best Cookbook of 2016
One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by Bart van Olphen
★ An Amazon Best Book of May—Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by John Wang, Storm Garner
★ An Amazon Best Book of 2020
One of Esquire’s Ten Best Cookbooks of 2020
2020 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by David Nelles, Christian Serrer
★ An International Bestseller
by Eli Grober
★ A New Yorker Best Book of 2023
2023 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by Tobias Hürter
★ 2022 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by Tobias Hürter
★ 2022 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner
by Oskar Jensen
★ A New Yorker Best Book of 2024
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
A Times (UK) Book of the Year
by Nadine Horn, Jörg Mayer
★ One of Amazon's Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by Rich Landau, Kate Jacoby
★ One of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Cookbooks of 2013
One of Yoga Journal’s 10 Best Cookbooks of 2013
by Marie Kacouchia
★ A Delish Top 20 Best Vegetarian Cookbook Ever Published
A Food Network Best Vegan Cookbook of 2022
Amazon Editors’ Picks: Best Cookbook
A Brittle Paper Top 100 Notable African Book of 2022
by Nadine Horn, Jörg Mayer
★ 2019 Foreword INDIES Finalist
by Bart van Olphen
★ An Amazon Best Book of October—Cookbooks, Food & Wine
by Jessica Wapner
★ 2020 Foreword INDIES Finalist
by Nicola Lathey, Tracey Blake
★ National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Parenting Resources Competition, Silver Award (Education category)
by Dara McAnulty, Barry Falls
★ Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature and Conservation Writing for Children
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Children’s Travel Book of the Year
Finalist for the 2024 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
2023 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
by Heather Crosby
★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Finalist
One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine