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Best Literary Fiction Book Publishing Companies

Showing 125 publishers that match your search.

Graywolf Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Poetry, Fiction, and Short Story

Location: Minneapolis, US

Website: https://www.graywolfpress.org/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries & contests - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Wild Fox of Yemen

Threa Almontaser

Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

The Twilight Zone

Nona Fernández

Wakefield Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Young Adult, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Art, Cookbook, Environmental, Education & Reference, Nonfiction, and Fiction

Location: Cambridge, US

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

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
A Photographic Memory

Erina Hutton

Recruited

Lauren Anderson

The Miscreants

Christopher Hawkes

Peepal Tree

Genres: Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, African-American, Fiction, and Poetry

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.peepaltreepress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC, AfricanAmerican

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Madwoman

Shara McCallum

Daylight Come

Diana McCaulay

Modern, Age, &c.

Raymond Ramcharitar

Haymarket Press

Genres: Art, Biographies & Memoirs, Environmental, Feminism, History, Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry

Location: Chicago, US

Website: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, LGBTQ, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Flying Kites

Stranford Graphic Novel Project

Songlands

John Feffer

Smoking Lovely

Willie Perdomo

Hawthorne Books

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

Part of: Dzanc Books > Hawthrone Books

Location: Portland, US

Website: http://hawthornebooks.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
California Calling

Natalie Singer

Whirlaway

Poe Ballantine

Narrow River, Wide Sky

Jenny Forrester

Mariner Books

Genres: Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Part of: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt > Mariner Books

Location: Boston, US

Website: https://www.hmhbooks.com/imprints/mariner-books

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

On the Plain of Snakes

Paul Theroux

Seagull Books

Genres: Women's Fiction, Literary Fiction, History, Politics, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Location: Mumbai, IN

Website: https://www.seagullbooks.org/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Rome, 1630

Yves Bonnefoy

Bedanabala

Mahasweta Devi

Love and Reparation

Danish Sheikh

Pan Macmillan India

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: New Delhi, IN

Website: http://www.panmacmillan.co.in/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Largest

💥 Hit titles
An Unfinished Revolution

Kishalay Bhattacharjee

My Father Drank My Lover and Other Stories

Ashok Banker

The CEO Who Lost His Head

Aditya Sinha

Forest Avenue Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Location: Portland, US

Website: http://www.forestavenuepress.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Queen of Spades

Alexander Pushkin

Parts Per Million

Julia Stoops

A Girl Called Rumi

Ari Honarvar

Bellevue Literary Press

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

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://blpress.org/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Tinkers

Paul Harding

The Wreckage of Eden

Norman Lock

Love Like Water, Love Like Fire

Mikhail Iossel

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