Parapsychological Association Book Award
The Parapsychological Association Book Award recognizes books in the field of parapsychology that make significant contributions to science and to the cultural conversation about the implications of parapsychology. New (no more than two years in print) and in-press books published in English, French, German, Spanish, or Portuguese (including translations) are eligible for the award. Notable works in other languages may also be considered, given the availability of appropriate committee members to evaluate them.
Submissions for the award will be accepted from authors and publishers. The annual deadline is March 31st for recognition at the PA’s annual convention, but the committee accepts submissions year round. To submit a book for consideration, complete the form below. Please also send three paper copies, if available, to the Parapsychological Association, P.O. Box 14884, Columbus, OH 43214, USA. Â
The PA Book Award committee will also accept nominations from PA members. Nominators should write one or two paragraphs about the merits of the book and the background of the author using the form below. When a book is nominated by a PA member, the review committee chair may contact authors/publishers to request copies of the book for consideration and evaluation.
PA Book Award winners will be invited to display a seal of the award on their book jackets and in all marketing materials. They will be recognized at the annual PA convention and will receive a medal of the award seal.Â
Previous Winners

2021 PA Book Award Winner: “Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory”

2021 PA Book Award Winner: “Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions”

2021 PA Book Award Winner: “Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal”

2021 PA Book Award Winner: “Dark Cognition: Evidence for Psi and its Implications for Consciousness”

2021 PA Book Award Winner: “Irreducible Mind / Beyond Physicalism / Consciousness Unbound”

2019 PA Book Award Winner – A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal—Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition

2019 PA Book Award Winner – Legitimacy of Unbelief: The Collected Papers of Piet Hein Hoebens

2018 PA Book Award Winner – Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience

2017 PA Book Award Winner: Enquête sur 150 Ans de Parapsychologie en France

2017 PA Book Award Winner: Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

2017 PA Book Award Winner – Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind

2016 PA Book Award Winner: Extrasensory Perception

2016 PA Book Award Winner: Varieties of Anomalous Experience, 2nd Edition

2016 PA Book Award Winner: Ojos Invisibles

2016 PA Book Award Winner: Prometheus and Atlas

2015 PA Book Award Winner: Experimentelle Parapsychologie

2015 PA Book Award Winner: Beyond Physicalism

