Awards & Accolades

100 Stars That Explain the Universe

★ 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

★ 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

★ #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

★ 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

★ A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick

A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention

A National Indie Favorite
An Indie Next Pick

A Woman on the Edge of Time

★ Shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

★ An Indie Bestseller

Atom Land

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

Baby-Led Weaning

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

Breathe, Mama, Breathe

★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner

Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds

★ 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!

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

But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan!

★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner

Caribbean Vegan

★ 2017 Gourmand Award Winner, Vegan Cookbook, Barbados

Citizen Scientist

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

Clean Enough

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

Dear Oliver

★ 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

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

East Meets Vegan

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

Engineering Eden

★ 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

★ #1 New York Times Bestseller

Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook

New York Times Bestseller

Freedom

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

Fresh from Poland

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

Generation Dread

★ 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

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

Hitler’s Boy Soldiers

★ Selection in the History Book Club and Military Book Club

How to Argue With a Racist

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

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 Be a Sister

★ An IndieBound Indie Next List Pick

How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate

★ Books for a Better Life Award—Green category finalist

How to Land a Plane

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

How to Read a Tree

Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
​An Indie Bestseller

How to Read Nature

★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner

How to Read Water

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

★ As heard on NPR’s Science Friday

How We Do Family

★ 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist

Humanimal

★ An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019

Humble

★ A University of California Favorite Book of 2022

Humble

★ A University of California Favorite Book of 2022

In Search of Common Ground

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

In Vino Duplicitas

★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner

It’s a Numberful World

★ 2021 Mathical Honor Book

Juice + Nourish

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

Kids Cook Gluten-Free

★ An Amazon Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks

Know It All

★ A Guardian Top 10 Science and Technology book

Let’s Cook!, Revised Edition

★ Midwest Book Achievement Award for Best Cookbook of the Year

Moimoi—Look at Me!

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

Monarchs of the Sea

★ A Science Friday Book Club Pick

My Caesarean

★ 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

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

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

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

Newborn 101

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

Nineteen Reservoirs

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

Nineteen Reservoirs

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

North American Maps for Curious Minds

★ An Indie Bestseller

Nosh on This

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

Nothing

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

Ocean Greens

★ A 2017 IACP Award Finalist

One Magic Square Vegetable Gardening

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

Oodles and Oodles of Vegan Noodles

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

Outsmart Your Pain

★ A Best Mindfulness Book of 2021 —Mindful.org

Patterns of the Universe

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

Planet of the Ants

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

Plant-Based India

 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

★ Books for a Better Life Award—Wellness category finalist

Polar Vortex

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

Polish’d

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

Prisoners of Geography

★ 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

★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner

Resilient Grieving

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

Resilient Grieving

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

Retracing the Iron Curtain

★ A Guardian best history and politics book of 2022

Sightlines

★ 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

Sixty: A Diary

★ 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]

Small Talk

★ 2014 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Parenting Resources Competition, Silver Award (Education category)

Space Exploration—A History in 100 Objects

★ A Junior Library Guild Selection

Start with a Scribble

Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner (1999)
National Parenting Publications Gold Award Winner (1999)

Stonehenge—A New Understanding

★ Named by the American Library Association’s Choice Magazine an Outstanding Academic Title of 2013

Stop the Fight!

★ 2015 INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Family & Relationships

Superfoods 24/7

★ Shortlisted for the 2016 Taste Canada Award

Supernavigators

★ A 2019 Nautilus Gold Award Winner, Animals & Nature
A Sunday Times Best Nature Book of the Year

Survival of the Nicest

★ A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014

The Aliens Are Coming!

★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner

The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook

★ A 2019 Nautilus Silver Award Winner, Body, Mind, & Spirit Practices

The Baby Nurse Bible

★ 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Parenting Resources Competition, Gold Award

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook—Volume 2

★ 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award

The Baby-Led Weaning Family Cookbook

★ A National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner

The Blink of an Eye

★ A 2019 Nautilus Silver Award Winner, Heroic Journeys
A Summer 2019 B&N Discover Great New Writers selection

The Book of Humans

★ An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019

The Brompton

★ A Times (UK) Best Business Book of the Year

The Calories In, Calories Out Cookbook

★ The Amsterdam Book Award, winner
The Hoffer Book Award, winner
Feathered Quill Book Awards—1st place in Self-Help

The Gender Creative Child

★ 2016 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention

The Global Economy as You’ve Never Seen It

★ 2019 Axiom Business Book Award—Economics Gold Medalist

The Good Ancestor

★ 2020 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
As heard on NPR’s TED Radio Hour

The Good Ancestor

★ 2020 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention
As heard on NPR’s TED Radio Hour

The Happiest Kids in the World

★ 2017 Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention

The Hidden Life of Ice

★ A National Geographic UK Best Travel Book of 2020
A Main Selection of the Library Science Book Club
2020 Foreword INDIES Finalist

The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book

★ International Bestseller