Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis by Mark Thompson is a National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist in Biography

Where Night Is Day: The World of the ICU by James Kelly was awarded second place in the 2013 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in the categories Critical Care-Emergency Nursing and Public Interest and Creative Works

The following Cornell University Press books were named 2013 Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice magazine:

Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value by Charles Altieri

Biology and Conservation of Martens, Sables, and Fishers: A New Synthesis edited by Keith B. Aubry, William J. Zielinski, Martin G. Raphael, Gilbert Proulx, and Steven W. Buskirk

The Mind of Thucydides edited by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten

Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson