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Best Literary Fiction Book Publishing Companies

Showing 123 publishers that match your search.

Hachette Australia

Genres: Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Education & Reference, Biographies & Memoirs, Horror, Action & Adventure, Self-Help, Historical Fiction, Sports & Outdoors, Mystery & Crime, History, Business, Travel, Women's Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Architecture, Art, Cookbook, Humor, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Story

Location: Sydney, AU

Website: https://www.hachette.com.au/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Largest

💥 Hit titles
Sooley

John Grisham

The Night Train

Clyde Edgerton

The Warsaw Orphan

Kelly Rimmer

Soho Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Diverse Literature, Fiction, and Short Story

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://sohopress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Fame Thief

Timothy Hallinan

Clark and Division

Naomi Hirahara

Blue Skinned Gods

SJ Sindu

Unnamed Press

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, History, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Story

Location: Los Angeles, US

Website: https://www.unnamedpress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries & queries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Border of Paradise

Esmé Weijun Wang

The Confession of Copeland Cane

Keenan Norris

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

Panamerica

Panamerica is a home for the American voice in the genres of literary fiction and reportage. They publish books that highlight what is most distinctive about American writing, including the mix of high and low subject matter and voices; deadpan and absurdist humor; the tragedies and triumphs of ordinary people living alongside their neighbors; and the ability to invent and inhabit new worlds.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Nonfiction

Part of: County Highway

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://countyhighway.com/panamerica

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Small press

💥 Hit titles

Dundurn Press

Genres: Art, Architecture, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, Health & Wellbeing, History, Humor, Middle Grade, Mystery & Crime, Politics, Sports & Outdoors, Travel, True Crime, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Location: Toronto, CA

Website: https://www.dundurn.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Persephone's Children

Rowan McCandless

Lost Shadow

Claire Gilchrist

Nothing Will Be Different

Tara McGowan-Ross

University of Queensland Press

Genres: Children's, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story, and Young Adult

Location: Sydney, AU

Website: https://www.uqp.com.au/

Accepts unagented submissions

No Manuscript entry - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko

The Elephant

Peter Carnavas

Dropbear

Evelyn Araluen

Stairway Press

Genres: Math & Science, Science Fiction, Politics, Thriller & Suspense, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Self-Help, Environmental, Biographies & Memoirs, Fantasy, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Story

Location: Phoenix, US

Website: https://stairwaypress.com

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
In Global Warming We Trust: Too Big to Fail

Anthony Sadar

Failure To Fracture

Anthony Garone

Cyberwarfare

Larry Bell

McSweeney's Books

Genres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Humor, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Location: San Francisco, US

Website: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Indelible in the Hippocampus

Shelly Oria

Of Color

Jaswinder Bolina

The Fire In His Wake

Spencer Wolff

Tuxtails Publishing, LLC

Genres: Action & Adventure, DIY, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Literary Fiction, Middle Grade, Mystery & Crime, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Self-Help, and Short Story

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.tuxtailspublishing.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Captain Jenkins: Flowers for Alcyon

Jessica Scott Romano

How to Be an American in Italy

Jessica Scott Romano

Beautiful in Death

Caroline Taylor

Schocken

Genres: Jewish Literature, Literary Fiction, Politics, History, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Part of: Penguin Random House > Knopf Doubleday > Schocken

Location: New York City, US

Website: http://knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/schocken/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Slaughterman's Daughter

Yaniv Iczkovits

To the Edge of Sorrow

Aharon Appelfeld

Thinking Without a Bannister

Hannah Arendt

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