Nautilus Book Award emblem
Nautilus Book Awards is an annual accolade of books in the genre of social and environmental justice. Established in the U.S. in 1998, it is considered a “major” book award and has been conferred to prominent authors including The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Kingsolver, ThichNhatHanh, Amy Goodman, and Desmund Tutu.

The award carries a monetary prize and seeks to recognize books in multiple categories that “make a difference and inspire.”[5] Most Nautilus Awards have been granted to books from major academic presses such as Stanford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, University of California Press, and Columbia University Press as well as large commercial publishers such as Penguin, W.W. Norton, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Little, Brown. However, several independent presses, including Island and Bloomsbury, are represented in the registry of past awards. The social networks Goodreads and Librarything maintain lists of Nautilus Award recipient books on their websites.

The award is named for the nautilus shell, as a symbol of wisdom and growth.[6]

Judging Process
One gold and one or more silver awards are usually made annually in each of 24 adult and 4 childrens/young adult categories.[7]

The Nautilus Book Award recipients are selected through a three-tier process presided over by an assembly of editors, professors, writers, librarians, publishers, schoolteachers and bookstore owners. Since the judging process requires consensus at three levels, which is not always achieved, there may be no books awarded in some years. The judging process also allows for concurrent awards.[8]

Notable Recipients
• Amy Goodman
• Andrew Harvey
• Andrew Weil
• Angeles Arrien
• Anna Lappé
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Caroline Myss
• Daniel Pinchbeck
• Dave Pelzer
• David Korten
• David Suzuki
• Deepak Chopra
• Desmund Tutu
• Eben Alexander
• Eckhart Tolle
• Frances Moore Lappé
• Gary E. Schwartz
• Gary Zukav
• Hazel Henderson
• Hedrick Smith
• Jean Houston
• Jeremy Rifkin
• John Francis
• Judy Collins
• Julia Cameron
• Lynne McTaggart
• Marianne Williamson
• Mariel Hemingway
• Marilyn Schlitz
• Masaru Emoto
• Matthew Fox
• Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Naomi Wolf
• Paul Rogat Loeb
• Rhonda Byrne
• RianeEisler
• Susun Weed
• Taigen Dan Leighton
• The Dalai Lama
• ThichNhatHanh
• Thom Hartmann

See also
• Rachel Carson Prize
• National Book Award
• Bancroft Prize
• Pulitzer Prize
• Walt Whitman Award
• Thomas Merton Award
• Woodrow Wilson Awards
• National Magazine Awards

External links
• Goodreads List of Nautilus Book Award winners
• Barbara Kingsolver '77 is Finalist for Gold Nautilus Book Award, Depauw University
• Daapak Chopra website
• The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes, Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2008
• Russo’s book receives Nautilus Award, University of Oregon
• University of California Press List of Literary Awards
• Official website