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Best Humor Book Publishing Companies
A comprehensive directory of the best publishers in 2023, vetted by the team at Reedsy. Showing 44 publishers.
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Text Publishing
Biographies & Memoirs, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Romance, Fantasy, Health & Wellbeing, Historical Fiction, History, Humor, Self-Help, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Environmental, Math & Science, Sports & Outdoors, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Story
Location - Melbourne, AU
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here
Website - https://www.textpublishing.com.au/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
Loner
Georgina Young
Soldiers
Tom Remiger
A Constant Hum
Alice Bishop
Allen and Unwin
Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Sports & Outdoors, True Crime, Health & Wellbeing, Self-Help, Humor, History, Environmental, Politics, Business, Biographies & Memoirs, Mystery & Crime, Romance, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Medical, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's
Location - Sydney, AU
Size - Mid size
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Submission format - Manuscript entries & contests - Submit here
Website - https://www.allenandunwin.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
Love Objects
Emily Maguire
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
Quirk Books
DIY, Cookbook, History, Horror, Humor, Mystery & Crime, Politics, Sports & Outdoors, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, True Crime, Comics & Graphic Novels, Diverse Literature, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Fiction, Children's, Nonfiction, Poetry, Novella
Location - Philadelphia, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Diversity - Diverse Literature, LGBTQ, BIPOC
Submission format - Queries & manuscript entries - Submit here
Website - https://www.quirkbooks.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Geekerella
Ashley Poston
Crown Publishing
Cookbook, Art, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, DIY, Health & Wellbeing, Sports & Outdoors, History, Humor, Politics, Self-Help, Religion & Spirituality, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Nonfiction, Fiction
Part of - Penguin Random House > Random House > Crown Publishing
Location - New York City, US
Size - Mid size
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks, Audiobooks
Website - https://crownpublishing.com/
💥 Hit titles
Becoming
Michelle Obama
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Devil in the White CIty
Erik Larson
Grove Atlantic
Horror, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, History, Humor, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Religion & Spirituality, Math & Science, Sports & Outdoors, Travel, True Crime, Politics, Westerns, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story
Location - New York City, US
Size - Mid size
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Website - https://groveatlantic.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
💥 Hit titles
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Two Dollar Radio
Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbook, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, History, Horror, Humor, Mystery & Crime, Politics, Science Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Westerns, Fiction, Nonfiction
Location - Columbus, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here
Website - https://twodollarradio.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
A History of My Brief Body
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Whiteout Conditions
Tariq Shah
Found Audio
N.J. Campbell
McSweeney's Books
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Humor, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Location - San Francisco, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here
Website - https://store.mcsweeneys.net/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
Indelible in the Hippocampus
Shelly Oria
Of Color
Jaswinder Bolina
The Fire In His Wake
Spencer Wolff
Chronicle Books
Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Cookbook, Photography, Art, DIY, Architecture, Self-Help, Health & Wellbeing, Travel, Humor, Diverse Literature, Children's, Nonfiction
Location - San Francisco, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books
Diversity - Diverse Literature
Submission format - Manuscript entries & book proposals - Submit here
Website - https://www.chroniclebooks.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
From Crook to Cook
Snoop Dogg
Dolly Parton, Songteller
Dolly Parton & Robert K. Oermann
Men to Avoid in Art and Life
Nicole Tersigni
Future Tense Books
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Humor, Nonfiction, Fiction, Short Story, Novella, Poetry
Location - Portland, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Website - https://futuretensebooks.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
💥 Hit titles
Excavation
Wendy C. Ortiz
Liar
Rob Roberge
User Not Found
Felicity Fenton
Dundurn Press
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, Poetry, Children's
Location - Toronto, CA
Size - Mid size
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Submission format - Book proposals - Submit here
Website - https://www.dundurn.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
Persephone's Children
Rowan McCandless
Lost Shadow
Claire Gilchrist
Nothing Will Be Different
Tara McGowan-Ross
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