Imprints

The Basic Books Group is dedicated to making the world smarter by publishing works of serious non-fiction by expert authors. The group includes Basic Books, Seal Press, PublicAffairs, Bold Type Books, Basic Venture, and Basic Liberty. Since its founding in 1950, Basic Books has shaped public debate by publishing award-winning books in history, science, politics, biography, and psychology. Seal Press, founded in 1976, publishes enduring works of feminist non-fiction. For over twenty-five years, PublicAffairs has published books at the heart of the national and global conversation — books that inform, advocate, educate, debunk, and speak truth to power. Bold Type Books challenges power through narrative by publishing works of urgent and ambitious journalism. Basic Venture publishes experts at the heart of the national and global conversation in business and economics. Basic Liberty is dedicated to publishing serious works of cultural, social, and political analysis by conservative intellectuals. As a whole, the Basic Books Group is dedicated to the proposition that ideas matter.

Grand Central Publishing Group, eaches a diverse audience through books that cater to every kind of reader. Our divisions include Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Nashville, and Union Square & Co.

Hachette Audio provides HBG authors with best-in-class audiobook publishing. We work closely with authors from every Hachette print division and imprint, sharing the author’s words with skilled actors, directors, and producers to create recordings that are both faithful to the text and a truly immersive and distinctive experience. Hachette Audio has been recognized for the highest quality of content and production with numerous GRAMMY, Audie, Listen Up! and Earphone awards.

Little, Brown and Company  is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown has long been recognized as a publisher dedicated to delivering fiction of the highest quality and nonfiction of lasting significance. Our backlist proudly includes an abundance of New York Times bestsellers and winners of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award. Our storied list includes classics such as Little Women, Mythology, Brideshead Revisited, and The Catcher in the Rye, as well as modern classics such as Infinite Jest, The Tipping Point, The Historian, Room, Circe, and The Goldfinch. We are also the longstanding home to bestselling franchise authors such as James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Elin Hilderbrand, David Sedaris, and many others. Our wide-ranging and varied imprints include Mulholland Books; Little, Brown Spark; Voracious; and Algonquin Books.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (LBYR) began publishing books for children in 1926, and we now offer a distinguished and diverse list of 250 frontlist titles annually. In addition to the Little, Brown Books for Young Readers core list of bestselling and award-winning picture books, chapter books, middle grade titles, and young adult books, we publish across four imprints: Christy Ottaviano Books, a boutique imprint that focuses on developing authors and artists; JIMMY Patterson Books, founded by the world’s bestselling author, James Patterson; LB Ink, home of LBYR’s graphic novels and graphic nonfiction; and LB Kids for novelty and board books. After 100 years of publishing for children and teens, we also now publish romance for adult readers under the Requited imprint.

The Orbit division comprises four imprints: Orbit, Redhook, Orbit Works, and Run For It. Launched in 2007, the Orbit imprint has established itself as one of the market-leading science fiction and fantasy imprints in the US. Redhook, which launched in 2013, focuses on commercial fiction with speculative elements. Orbit Works is a SFF digital publishing imprint, distributing its books globally and welcoming direct submissions from authors. Our newest imprint, Run For It, publishes horror fiction. Orbit division authors include New York Times bestsellers  James S.A. Corey, N.K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, Kim Stanley Robinson, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Brent Weeks.

The Running Press Group inspires and delights with innovative formats in humor, popular culture, wellness, self-help, and inspiration at RP Adult; journals, decks, puzzles and more at RP Studio; home-grown and licensed collectibles and games at RP Minis; and board, activity, picture, middle grade and YA fiction and nonfiction at RP Kids. Avalon Travel publishes guidebooks and travel inspiration under Moon Travel Guides and Rick Steves.

The Workman Publishing Group publishes with passion, joy, and an independent spirit, including award winning cookbooks, bestselling parenting/pregnancy guides, humor, self-help, narrative, business, gardening, country living, lifestyle and pop culture; educational resource brands for kids and children’s middle grade, picture, activity, board and novelty books; a bestselling calendar line; and gift and stationery titles, all under Workman, Artisan, Workman Kids, Workman Calendars, Storey Publishing, Timber Press, and Black Dog & Leventhal.