Draft:Bloomsbury US

• Comment: This is a notable company as established by the sources, but the lists of works they publish and awards given to authors reads very promotionally. The prose needs trimming and reworking to meet WP:NPOV and WP:PROMO. MidnightMayhem (talk) 21:57, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Overcited--remove citations that aren't actually about the publisher, like the Book Larder page. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 00:17, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Too much of this is sourced to Bloomsbury itself. Hoary (talk) 06:38, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: I'm a bit confused about the relevance of Sarah J. Maas and why there's an entire section dedicated to her? Nil🥝 04:43, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

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Sarah J Maas's books are responsible for an abnormally significant portion of Bloomsbury US's profits, and her books sell tens of millions more copies than any other individual author at the company. If you look at any fiscal returns reported, you'll see their success is attributed to her first. Quoting this Publishers Marketplace article: "The success of Bloomsbury USA is the result of a confluence of forces, but one in particular looms large: Sarah J. Maas. The romantasy novelist was the bestselling author of 2024, according to Circana BookScan, selling nearly nine million books in the year." From what I can glean, it seems like her profits alone outstrip those of entire other divisions.

Bloomsbury US is the American branch of the independent global book publisher Bloomsbury PLC, founded in Britain in 1986 by Nigel Newton and expanded to New York in 1998. Since 2024, Bloomsbury US is the largest branch of Bloomsbury PLC and one of the ten largest publishing houses in America. The house is known for high-quality literary fiction and general nonfiction as well as a strong academic publishing arm, children's team, and fantasy imprint, Archer, as well as publishing #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J Maas.

Its notable titles have include Anthony Bourdain's global bestseller Kitchen Confidential, Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award winner Salvage the Bones, the works of 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Susanna Clark's Women's Prize for Fiction winner Piranesi, Renée Watson’s Newbery Honor Book Piecing Me Together, Martin W. Sandler's National Book Award winner 1919, and titles by renowned authors Paul Beatty, Roz Chast, Edmund White, Elif Shafak, Carol Anderson, Mark Kurlansky, Miriam Toews, Samantha Shannon, and Deborah Levy. Although Bloomsbury PLC is known to be the original publisher of the Harry Potter series, Scholastic holds rights to the books in America.

In 2021, Bloomsbury US acquired ABC-CLIO LLC, the established academic publisher of both print and digital materials, for $22.9 million. In 2024, Bloomsbury US finalized the asset purchase of Rowman & Littlefield, the independent academic publisher, for $83 million.

Adult Trade Division

Adult Fiction

Bloomsbury US's Adult Trade division publishes literary and upmarket fiction, including a multitude of New York Times bestsellers and winners of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Their notable fiction includes Outlawed by Anna North, Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, Women Talking by Miriam Toews, The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, Piranesi by Susanna Clark, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy, This Is Happiness by Niall Williams, Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak, and The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş.

Adult Nonfiction

Bloomsbury US's Adult Trade division publishes a range of general nonfiction, including finalists and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle, as well as New York Times bestsellers. They publish political and investigative works, literary memoir, cultural histories and criticism, food writing, cookbooks, and graphic nonfiction. Books include Anthony Bourdain's backlist including Kitchen Confidential, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast, White Rage by Carol Anderson, A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage, Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, Cod and Salt by Mark Kurlansky, No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder, The Apology by Eve "V" Ensler, The Method by Isaac Butler, A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews, and Loves of My Life by Edmund White.

Bloomsbury US also publishes cookbooks including BAKE by Paul Hollywood, Dishoom by the Dishoom restaurant team, The Flavor Thesaurus by Niki Segnit, and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.

Bloomsbury Archer

Bloomsbury Archer is an imprint launched by Bloomsbury US in 2025 and characterized as publishing "across the constellation of speculative fiction—from fantasy and science fiction to speculative romance, horror, myth retellings, alternate histories, and more." Among a new roster of books, longstanding Bloomsbury authors Samantha Shannon, of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and comic book maven Alan Moore, of The Great When, are now published under Archer.

Sarah J. Maas

Bloomsbury US has published #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy author Sarah J. Maas since 2008, when they acquired her first novel, Throne of Glass. Maas is known for her series Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City. At times the most selling author in America, she has sold more than 75 million copies of her books and her work has been translated into 40 languages as of 2024. She is sometimes credited with leading the rise of the new genre known as "romantasy," a mixture of romance and fantasy that accounts for a large portion of US book sales.