The Charles Tilly Award for Best Book is given by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association in recognition of a significant contribution to the field.[1] Nominees of the award are regarded as being representative of the "best new books in the field of social movements."[2] The award was established in 1986, and is named after sociologist Charles Tilly.
- 1988 - John Lofland. Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements.
- 1990 - Doug McAdam. Freedom Summer.
- 1990 - Rick Fantasia. Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, & Contemporary American Workers
- 1992 - Sidney Tarrow. Democracy & Disorder: Protest & Politics in Italy, 1965-1975.
- 1994 - Clark McPhail. The Myth of the Madding Crowd.
- 1996 - Charles Tilly. Popular Contention in Great Britain: 1754-1837.
- 1998 - Nicola Kay Beisel. Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America. Princeton University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780691027791.
- 2000 - Rebecca Klatch. A Generation Divided.
- 2002 - Jeff Goodwin. No Other Way Out: States and Revoluntionary Movements, 1945-1991.
- 2002 - Dingxin Zhao. The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement.
- 2003 - Francesca Polletta. Freedom is an Endless Meeting.
- 2004 - Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht. Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States.
- 2005 - Kenneth T. Andrews. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.
- 2006 - Gene Burns. The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States.
- 2007 - Francesca Polletta. It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics.
- 2008 - Roger Karapin. Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s.
- 2009 - Maren Klawiter. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism.
- 2010 - Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown.
- 2010 - Nancy Whittier. The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State.
- 2011 - William Roy. Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States.
- 2012 - Drew Halfmann. Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada.
- 2013 - Kathleen Blee. Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form.
- 2014 - Isaac William Martin. Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent.
- 2015 - Katrina Kimport. Queering Marriage.
- 2015 - Edward T. Walker. Grassroots for Hire.
- 2016 - Daniel Schlozman. When Movements Anchor Parties.
- 2017 - Erica Simmons. Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America.
- 2018 - Neil Ketchley. Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring.
- 2018 - Chris Zepeda-Millan. Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism.
- 2019 - Diana Fu. Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China.
- 2019 - Tamara Kay and R.L. Evans. Trade Battles: Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy.
- 2020 - Jen Schradie. The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives.
- 2020 - Robert Braun. Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust.
- 2021 - Eleonora Pasotti. Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities.
- 2022 - Dana M. Moss. The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes.