Awards Won by Beacon Press

National Book Award

• The Healing (Gayl Jones, 1998 finalist)
• New and Selected Poems, Volume One (Mary Oliver, 1992)

National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist

• Five Thousand Days Like This One (Jane Brox, 1999)
• Does Your House Have Lions? (Sonia Sanchez, 1997)
• The End of the Novel of Love (Vivian Gornick, 1997)

Lannan Literary Fellowship

• Freeman House, 2005

Lannan Literary Award for Non-fiction

• Scott Russell Sanders, 1995

L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Here and Nowhere Else (Jane Brox, 1995)
• House of Light (Mary Oliver, 1991)

PEN American Center Beyond Margins Award

• West of the Jordan (Laila Halaby, 2004)

PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry

• Waiting for the Paraclete (Lise Goette)

Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award

• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks(Jeanne Theoharis, 2013)

NAACP Image Award - Biography / Autobiography

• One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York (Arthur Browne, 2016 Nominee)
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks(Jeanne Theoharis, 2013 Winner)

MEMO Palestine Book Award Winner

• Brokers of Deceit (Rashid Khalidi, 2013)

Lionel Trilling Book Award Winner

• Brokers of Deceit (Rashid Khalidi, 2014)

International Latino Book Awards

• For All of Us, One Today (Richard Blanco, 2014 Winner)
• Hunting Season(Mirta Ojitao, 2014 Finalist)

Minnesota Book Award Winner - Memoir and Creative Nonfiction

• Prairie Silence (Melanie Hoffert, 2014)

Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Finalist

• The Sounds of Slavery (Shane White and Graham White, 2005)

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, Short List

• On the Courthouse Lawn (Sherrilyn Ifill, 2008 Finalist)
• Summer Snow (Trudier Harris, 2004)

Christopher Award

• One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York (Arthur Browne, 2016)
• Choosing Naia (Mitchell Zuckoff, 2002)
• The Measure of Our Success (Marian Wright Edelman, 1993)
• House of Light (Mary Oliver, 1991)

Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• Encountering God (Diana L. Eck, 1995)

Grawemeyer Award of Ideas Improving World Order

• For the Common Good (Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., 1991)

National Outdoor Book Awards

• Before They're Gone (Michael Lanza, 2012 Honorable Mention)

Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Outstanding Book Awards

• Drifting Toward Love (Kai Wright, 2008 Winner)
  
• We Are All Suspects Now (Tram Nguyen, 2006 winner)
• Storming Caesars Palace (Annelise Orleck, 2006 winner)
• Sarah's Long Walk (Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick, 2005 Honorable Mention)
• Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and Tight (Carol Burke, 2004 Honorable Mention)
• Speak My Name (Edited by Don Belton, 1995)
• Turning Back (Stephen Steinberg, 1996)
• Living with Racism (Joe Feagin and Melvin Sikes, 1994)
• Race Matters (Cornel West, 1994)
• You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Howard Zinn, 1994)

Albert A . Hourani Award of the Middle East Studies Association, Honorable Mention

• Resurrecting Empire (Rashid Khalidi, 2004)

Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education Book of the Year Selection

• The Power of Their Ideas (Deborah Meyer, 1996)

Anthony Leeds Prize

• Homefront (Catherine Lutz, 2002)

Victor Turner Prize in Enthographic Writing

• Homefront (Catherine Lutz, 2002 honorable mention)

AAR Best First Book In History of Religion

• The Bone Gatherers (Nicola Denzey, 2008 Finalist)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize

• Acts of Faith (Eboo Patel, 2008 Finalist)

PASS Award

• American Furies (Sasha Abramsky, 2008 Winner)

Lambda Literary Awards

• Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics (Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski, 2016 Finalists)
• A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Daisy Hernández, 2015 Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Recipient)
• Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger (2014 Pioneer Award Recipient)
• "You Can Tell Just by Looking" (Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico, 2013 Finalist)
• Kate Clinton, I Told You So (2010 Pionner Award Recipient)
• Mean Little deaf Queer (Terry Galloway, 2009 Finalist)
• The Pure Lover (David Plante, 2009 Finalist)
• Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage (Nancy Polikoff, 2008 Finalist)
• Drifting Toward Love (Kai Wright, 2008 Finalist)

Historic Winslow House Book Award

• The Muse of the Revolution (Nancy Rubin Stuart, 2009 Winner)

C. L. R. James Award for Best Book

• Illegal People (David Bacon, 2007-2008 Winner)

Ken Book Award

• The Lonely Soldier (Helen Benedict, 2010 Winner)

Plattner Award

• The Blue Cotton Gown (Patsy Harman, 2009 non-fiction Winner)

Goldie Award

• Mean Little deaf Queer (Terry Galloway, 2010 Short Story/Essay Collections Winner)

Quill Award

• New and Selected Poems: Volume 2 (Mary Oliver, 2006 finalist for poetry)
• Blue Iris (Mary Oliver, 2005 finalist for poetry)

Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Award/Arts

• The Pueblo Imagination (Lee Marmon, 2004)

ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

• A Queer History of the United States (Michael Bronski, 2012)
  

ALA Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction

• Nina Here Nor There (Nick Krieger, 2012)
• Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son (Kevin Jennings, 2006)
  
• Beyond Shame (Patrick Moore, 2004)

CHOICE Magazine, Outstanding Academic Books

• Let the Students Speak! (David Hudson, 2012)
• Prophetic Encounters (Dan McKanan, 2012)
• White Men on Race (Joe Feagin and Eileen O'Brien, 2004)
• The Opening of the American Mind (Lawrence W. Levine, 1997)
• Seeing and Believing (Margaret Miles, 1996)
• Poetic Justice (Martha Nussbaum, 1996)
• Lieutenant Nun (Catalina de Erauso, 1996)
• Turning Back (Stephen Steinberg, 1996)
• Working the Spirit (Joseph M. Murphy, 1994)
• But She Said (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, 1933)

Spirituality & Health Best Books

• Breathing Space (Heidi Neumark, 2003)
• Breakfast Epiphanies (David Anderson, 2002)

New England Booksellers Association Book Award

• Love and Fury (Richard Hoffman, 2014 Non-fiction Finalist)
• Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words (Kate Whouley, 2012 Non-Fiction)

New England Booksellers Association, Literary Excellence Award

• Mary Oliver, 1999

New England Booksellers Association, Presidential Award

• Cornel West
• Doris Grumbach

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Transgender Warriors (Leslie Feinberg, 1996)

American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

• The Measure of Our Success (Marian Wright Edelman, 1993)

Library Journal, Best Books of the Year

• Ethical Chic (Fran Hawthorne, 2012)
• Cries of the Spirit (Marilyn Sewell, 1991)

Publishing Triangle Literary Awards

• A Queer and Pleasant Danger (Kate Bornstein, 2012 Judy Grahn Award Finalist)
• Drifting Toward Love (Kai Wright, 2008 Finalist)
• Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage (Nancy Polikoff, 2008 Finalist)
• The Pure Lover (David Plante, 2009 Randy Shits Award Finalist)

Harry Chapin Media Awards

• The Missing Class (Katherine Newman and Victor Tan Chen, 2008 Finalist)
• Closing the Food Gap (Mark Winne, 2008 Finalist)

Independent Book Publisher’s Association (IBPA) Awards

• A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Daisy Hernández, 2015 Autobiography/Memoir II Gold Award)
• I Told You So (Kate Clinton, 2009 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner)

AAUP “Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About” Award, by the American Library Association

• Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words (Kate Whouley, 2012 Featured Title)
• Early Spring (Amy Seidl, 2009 Winner)

American Book Award

• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2015 Recipient)

Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award

• Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina (Ronnie Greene, 2015 Winner)

New York City Book Award

• One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York (Arthur Browne, 2016 Winner)

Wheatley Book Award

• One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York (Arthur Browne, 2016 Winner in Nonfiction)

Sara A. Whaley Book Prize

• Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Premilla Nadasen, 2016 Recipient)

Society for this History of the Early Republic (SHEAR) Book Prize

• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh (Daina Berry, 2018 Recipient)

Phillis Wheatley Literary Award from the Sons & Daughters of the United States

• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh (Daina Berry, 2018 Recipient)

Middle Passage (SDUSMP) Heredity Society

• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh (Dainy Berry)

PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States (Paul Ortiz, 2018 Recipient)