Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Literary fiction publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 649 literary fiction publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 5,811 professional contacts across them, including 1,091 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers literary fiction publishers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for literary fiction publishers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest literary fiction publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créées en 1978, dans un village de la vallée des Baux, par Hubert Nyssen et sa femme, Christine Le Boeuf, bientôt rejoints par les autres fondateurs, Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Twice winner of the KPMG publisher of the year award, and with a string of top sellers in each season, Little, Brown Book Group has a proven history of success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ambo|Anthos uitgevers is een van de meest succesvolle uitgeverijen op het gebied van fictie, non-fictie en literaire thrillers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit unserer Gründung im Jahr 1886 durch Samuel Fischer in Berlin sind die S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are not just another publishing house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Are: Mavericks Since coming onto the scene in 2011, Entangled has racked up the accolades-from New York Times bestsellers to starred reviews to Best Of lists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PIPER Verlag »Ich gehe auf jedes Buch zu, als könnte es ein guter Freund werden«: Mit diesem leidenschaftlichen Bekenntnis zur Literatur schlägt Piper-Verlegerin Felicitas von…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Consolidando-se no mercado editorial brasileiro através da publicação de obras de ficção e não-ficção, de autores nacionais e estrangeiros, a Editora Novo Século tem sua atenção…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Presença is an independent trade publisher of fiction and non-fiction books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CAN Yayınları 1981’de, Türkiye’nin önde gelen yazarlarından biri olan Erdal Öz tarafından kuruldu ve kısa sürede Türkiye’nin en saygın yayınevlerinden biri haline geldi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée au XIXe siècle, Calmann-Lévy, une des plus anciennes maisons d’édition françaises, a donné au roman grand public ses lettres de noblesse avec Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that the good book requires time, and we give it this time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Quercus is a young, vibrant, internationally successful and award-winning publisher of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Head of Zeus is a young and vibrant publishing house dedicated to new authors, great storytelling and fabulous ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Suhrkamp Verlag, established in 1950 and located in Berlin, Germany, is commonly regarded as one of the leading European publishers of sophisticated literature” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Boldwood Books is an award-winning independent, global fiction publishing house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Black Rose Writing is an independent publishing house that strongly believes in developing a personal relationship with their authors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1973 we’ve worked to unearth and amplify the most vital, exciting voices we can find, wherever they come from, and we’ve published all kinds of books – thoughtful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé à l’initiative de Vera et Jan Michalski, Libella est un groupe d'édition généraliste et indépendant, qui s’est progressivement constitué depuis la fin des années 1980 autour…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Na Autografia somos apaixonados por livros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Granta Publications is the home of Granta Magazine, Granta Books and Portobello Books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: literary fiction publishers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names literary fiction publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of literary fiction publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name literary fiction publishers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Literary fiction publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among literary fiction publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for literary fiction publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “literary fiction publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names literary fiction publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among literary fiction publishers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,091 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Literary fiction publishers by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Literary fiction publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names literary fiction publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many literary fiction publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 649 literary fiction publishers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
St. Martin's Press, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most literary fiction publishers?
The United States leads with 127 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (58). Every literary fiction publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most literary fiction publishers?
London leads with 26 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (25) and New York (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,091 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 649 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.