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Best Narrative Nonfiction Book Publishing Companies
A comprehensive directory of the best publishers in 2023, vetted by the team at Reedsy. Showing 37 publishers.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Literary Fiction, History, Politics, Math & Science, Narrative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Part of - Macmillan > Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Location - New York City, US
Size - Mid size
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks, Audiobooks
Website - https://us.macmillan.com/fsg/
💥 Hit titles
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor
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
Algonquin Books
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction
Part of - Workman Publishing > Algonquin Books
Location - Raleigh, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Audiobooks, Ebooks
Diversity - Diverse Literature
Website - https://www.algonquin.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
💥 Hit titles
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
The Drunken Botanist
Amy Stewart
Saraband
Environmental, Biographies & Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction, Self-Help, Diverse Literature, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Fiction, Nonfiction
Location - Manchester, GB
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Diversity - Diverse Literature, LGBTQ, BIPOC
Website - https://saraband.net/
☑️ Indie publisher
💥 Hit titles
Shocked Earth
Saskia Goldschmidt
Westering
Laurence Mitchell
Bleak
R.M. Murray
Galley Beggar Press
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Fiction, Nonfiction
Location - London, GB
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here
Website - https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBride
Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann
Mordew
Alex Pheby
Coffee House Press
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story
Location - Minneapolis, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Diversity - Diverse Literature
Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here
Website - https://coffeehousepress.org/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
I Hotel
Karen Tei Yamashita
Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Sam Savage
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
New Directions
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story
Location - New York City, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Website - https://www.ndbooks.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
💥 Hit titles
The Emissary
Yoko Tawada
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
The Caretaker
Doon Arbus
Unnamed Press
Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, History, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Story
Location - Los Angeles, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks
Diversity - Diverse Literature
Submission format - Manuscript entries & queries - Submit here
Website - https://www.unnamedpress.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
☑️ Accepts submissions
💥 Hit titles
The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang
The Confession of Copeland Cane
Keenan Norris
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers
Counterpoint Press
Politics, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Location - San Francisco, US
Size - Small press
Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks, Audiobooks
Diversity - Diverse Literature
Website - https://www.counterpointpress.com/
☑️ Indie publisher
💥 Hit titles
A Kind of Freedom
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
None But The Righteous
Chantal James
Colorful
Eto Mori
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