Which Publishers Released The Last 5 Books You've Read? (5/26/19)

[Marc]

Simply curious to see the range of publishers represented for each reader and among members. Feel free to include the books you are currently reading.

Mine are:
- Hill & Wang (The Dwarf)
- Drawn & Quarterly (Aya: Life in Yop City)
- The U.S. Government (The Mueller Report)
- Archipelago Books (A General Theory of Oblivion)
- Soft Skull Press (Something Bright, Then Holes)

[Neil]

Galley Beggar (Feeding Time)
Picador (Albert Angelo)
Sceptre (Starling Days)
Penguin (The Regeneration Trilogy)
Dead Ink Books (The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas)

[Jen]

Riverhead - Flights
Granta - Ghost Wall
Hamish Hamilton - The Silence of the Girls
Macmillan - The Girls of Slender Means
Liana Levi (french) / Europa (english) - Disoriental

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich--Homo Faber by Max Frisch

Penguin (non classic)--A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

Bantam Doubleday Dell--Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Knopf--The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

Univ. of Chicago Press--A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell

[Antonomasia]

That is too weird! The last book I finished was also by Marina Lewycka and now I'm reading Like Water for Chocolate. (Both published in the UK by PRH imprints.) Though these are books/authors that suit a similar mood and level of reading, so maybe not so very weird.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Antonomasia wrote: "That is too weird! The last book I finished was also by Marina Lewycka and now I'm reading Like Water for Chocolate. Though these are books/authors that suit a similar mood and level of reading, so..."

Mine was more by accident--another group I'm in is concentrating on female authors from around the world this year, and Esquivel's book came up. The Lewycka book came up as a random pick for some time I'm spending away from home. Still...funny coincidence :)

[Whitney]

I wonder how many smaller presses are represented these days compared to if you'd asked this 10 or 20 years ago.

Akashik Books, Prison Noir
Berkeley / Blackstone Audio, The Lesser Dead
Viking / Transworld Digital, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Skyhorse / Brilliance Audio, FantasticLand
Solaris / Audible, Signal to Noise

[Nadine in California]

I don't understand publishing, with big publishers having so many different imprints - it's hard to tell what's a small press anymore without looking them up.

Grove Press - The Heavens
US Govt/Washington Post - The Mueller Report
One World - Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Graywolf Press - Lanny
One World - A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

[Lark]

great question! I linked to the presses too:

Two Lines Press: Bright

Charco Press: Feebleminded

Catapult: Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

Scribe: The Death of Murat Idrissi

Two Dollar Radio: The Gloaming

[David]

I have a semi-non-answer answer. First, I never pay any attention to the name of the publishing company, so I'd have to look them all up. Second, of my last 5 books one is a biography of a locally significant person published by a local micro-sized press; one is an academic book published by a university press; one is a public domain book I got through Project Gutenberg; and two are published collections of short stories previously published in other books. The last two were published by Picador and Penguin.

[Carol]

Arsenal Pulp Press: Saigon Calling: London 1963-75 by Marcelino Truong

Penguin Classics: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Orenda Books: Palm Beach, Finland by Antti Tuomainen

Bitter Lemon: Grab a Snake by the Tail: A Murder in Havana's Chinatown by Leonardo Padura

Oxford University Press, Samurai: A Concise History by Michael Wert

[Robert]

Fleet (The Nickel Boys)
Dead Ink (Please Read This Leaflet Carefully)
World Editions (A Devil Comes to Town)
Oneworld ( Manchester Happened)
Gallic ( The Choke)

[Tamara]

Anchor Press: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz;

Faber and Faber: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro;

Sandstone Press: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi;

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: Border Districts: A Fiction by Gerald Murnane;

Graywolf Press: Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

[Hugh]

I could pretend a greater diversity, but apart from a couple of group choices, I have been reading books that have been on the shelf for longest - I would have had more diversity several times earlier in the year!

The last five I finished were:

And Other Stories [independent]: Border Districts: A Fiction
Abacus [Little, Brown]: According To Queeney
Vintage [Penguin Random House]: A General Theory of Oblivion
Penguin Modern Classics [Penguin Random House]: Jerusalem the Golden
Vintage [Penguin Random House]: Wanting

[Bretnie]

Wow, I never look at who publishes the books I read, so this is fascinating!

Viking, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Atria Books, Britt-Marie Was Here

W.W. Norton Company, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Penguin Books, July's People

Vintage, Caramelo

[June]

Charco Press: Feebleminded
Riverhead Books: The Book of Night Women
Archipelago: A Change of Time
Two Lines Press: Lion Cross Point
And Other Stories: People in the Room

[Linda]

Hmmm...I never pay any attention to the publisher. And I usually have more of a mix than just sci-fi/horror, but here are my last five anyway -

Night Shade Books: The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact by Neil Clarke

Macmillan Digital Audio: Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Ace: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Dark Horse Comics: The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way

Broadway Books: Midnight Movie by Tobe Hooper

[Lily]

Bretnie wrote: "Wow, I never look at who publishes the books I read, so this is fascinating!"

Well, I'll grant myself "sometimes," but "never" is pretty close to accurate. These are among the books that traveled with me on a Memorial Weekend getaway to Vermont (most of them made the trip without being opened; the weather was good):

Liberty Fund -- Democracy in America, Volume II (oops, with me was Vol 2 of the 2 volume English only, with Nolla's notes.)
The Teaching Company -- Tocqueville and the American Experiment Guidebooks
University of Chicago Press -- The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Atlas Books, HarperCollins Publishers -- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide
Alfred A. Knopf (Random House Div.) -- Caramelo
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux -- Border Districts: A Fiction, also, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Fukuyama
Bantam Books (Random House Div.) -- Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft by Natalie Goldberg

A few smaller press titles taken along for the ride or knocking around my life right now:
Jasper Heights Press, Waterville, VT -- Best Vermont Drives: 14 Tours in the Green Mountain State
Insider's Guide, Globe Pequot Press -- Vermont Off the Beaten Path (Sixth Ed.)
Cascade Books, Eugene, OR -- The Book of Kells by Barbara Crooker

[Logophile]

Penguin Random House Audio (original publisher Hogarth Press): New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
Blackstone Publishing (audio, original publisher Quirk Books): Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Harper Audio (original publisher HarperCollins): The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Random House: Slade House by David Mitchell
Simon Schuster Audio (original publisher Scribner): Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

As you can see by the tragic number of audio books I’ve listened to, I currently find it hard to make the time to read print books. I’m trying to remedy this!

[Jess]

This is interesting. Not something I usually think about

Harper Perrenial - The Fifth Child
Oakhill Publishing (audio) - The Monsters of Templeton
Chatto and Windus - Blackass
Cannongate - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Blackstone Publishing (audio) - Enchantment

[Hugh]

Updated list:

Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers: Faber & Faber
Trieste by Daša Drndić: Maclehose Press (Quercus)
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie: Vintage (Penguin Random House)
Mikhail and Margarita by Julie Lekstrom Himes: Europa Editions