Awards

BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography

Working the Phones by Jamie Woodcock (Shortlisted) 2017

Flip-Flop by Caroline Knowles (Shortlisted) 2015

Bread and Roses Prize

Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean (Winner) 2024

Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State by Gargi Bhattacharyya et al. (Shortlisted) 2022

Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions by Eve Livingston (Longlisted) 2022

Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima by Becky Alexis-Martin (Shortlisted) 2020

Alt Right by Mike Wendling (Shortlisted) 2019

Sound System by Dave Randall (Shortlisted) 2018

The Violence of Austerity by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte (Shortlisted) 2018

Artwash by Mel Evans (Shortlisted) 2016

Stitched Up by Tansy Hoskins (Shortlisted) 2015

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark by Eveline Lubbers (Shortlisted) 2013

What We Are Fighting For edited by Federico Campagna and Emanuele Campiglio (Shortlisted) 2013

Magical Marxism by Andy Merrifield (Shortlisted) 2012

Brittle Paper’s ‘Notable African Books’

Ere Roosevelt Came: The Adventures of the Man in the Cloak – A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s by Duse Mohamed Ali, Edited by Marina Bilbija and Alex Lubin (2024)

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize

Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley (Winner) 2019

Jacques Lacan by Martin Murray (Winner) 2016

The Daniel Singer Prize for Prisoner of Conscience 

Boris Kagarlitsky, author of The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left (Winner) 2024

Deutscher Memorial Prize

The Backstage of the Care Economy by Helma Lutz (Shortlisted) 2025

From Printing to Streaming by Michael Chanan (Shortlisted) 2023

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi by Gareth Dale (Shortlisted) 2017

Nomads, Empires, States by Kees van der Pijl (Winner) 2008

Discovering the Scottish Revolution by Neil Davidson (Winner) 2003

Elliott P. Skinner Book Award

The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks (Winner) 2021

European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism

Secret Power by Stefania Maurizi (Winner) 2022

Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded to Gerald Horne, author of Paul Robeson, The Artist as Revolutionary  2023

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Prize for Best Political Book

AI and the New Fascism by Rainer Mühlhoff (Winner) 2026

Green Carnation Prize

Artwash by Mel Evans (Shortlisted) 2015

ISA Book Prize

How the West Came to Rule by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu (Winner) 2017

ICA Book of the Year

Curationism by David Balzer (Winner) 2015

Stitched Up by Tansy Hoskins (Winner) 2014

James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences

Repealed by Camilla Fitzsimons (Winner) 2022

James Tait Black Prize for Biography

My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé, Translated by Emma Ramadan (Winner) 2025

 JQ Wingate Literary Prize

The Unchosen by Mya Guarnieri Jaradat (Shortlisted) 2017

Do I Belong? edited by Antony Lerman (Longlisted) 2017

Latino Politics Book Award

The Latino Question by Armando Ibarra, Alfredo Carlos and Rodolfo D Torres (Winner – Best Book) 2019

L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize

Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima by Becky Alexis-Martin (Winner) 2020

National Communication Association, Diamond Anniversary Book Award

Under the Cover of Chaos by Lawrence Grossberg (Winner) 2019

Palestine Book Awards

Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance  – Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2022

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements by Ella Shohat (Winner) 2017

War Against the People by Jeff Halper (Shortlisted) 2016

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist by Anbara Salam Khalidi (Shortlisted) 2014

Israeli Apartheid by Ben White (Shortlisted) 2012

PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean (Shortlisted) 2023

Premio Alessandro Leogrande for Investigative Journalism

Secret Power by Stefania Maurizi (Winner) 2022

Rathbones Folio Prize

Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami (Shortlisted) 2017

Russo & Linkon Award

Choke Points edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness (Winner) 2019

The Telegraph Sports Book Awards

St. Pauli: Another Football is Possible by Carles Vinas and Natxo Parra (Shortlisted – Football Book of the Year) 2021

TLS Ackerley Prize

Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain (Shortlisted) 2024

 UALE Book Award

The Cost of Free Shipping edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese (Winner), 2021

William Hill Sports Book of the Year

A People’s History of Tennis by David Berry (Shortlisted) 2020

New York Times Book Covers of the Year

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – designed by David Pearson (Winner) 2017

ABCD Awards (Academy of British Cover Design)

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – designed by David Pearson (Winner) 2018

Syriza by Kevin Ovenden – designed by Jamie Keenan (Shortlisted) 2016

Artwash by Mel Evans – designed by Jamie Keenan (Shortlisted) 2016

Creative Review Book Covers of the Year

Mask Off by JJ Bola – designed by Jamie Keenan (Winner) 2019

Behind Closed Doors by Natalie Fiennes – designed by Jamie Keenan (Winner) 2019

Casual Optimist Notable Book Covers

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – designed by David Pearson – 2017

We Will Not Be Silenced edited by William I Robinson and Maryam S Griffin- designed by James Paul Jones – 2017

Storming Heaven by Steve Wright – designed by David Gee – 2017

The Chaplin Machine by Owen Hatherley – designed by David Pearson – 2016

Economics After Capitalism by Derek Wall – designed by David Gee – 2015

Racism by Mike Cole – designed by Daniel Benneworth Gray – 2015

Syriza by Kevin Ovenden – designed by Jamie Keenan – 2015

The IPG Nielsen Digital Marketing Award

Pluto Press (Winner) 2021

Pluto Press (Shortlisted) 2019

Pluto Press (Shortlisted) 2018

BIC Product Data Excellence Award – Excellence Plus

Pluto Press (Winner) 2018

Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Heroes

Pluto Press (Winner) 2018