The Biggest Cuties in Publishing

We at Literary Hub are fond of year-end lists—we’ve calculated the 25 favorite books of America’s booksellers, provided our own favorite books, and counted down the biggest literary stories. However, there have been so many lists of books and not nearly enough lists of cuties. After painstaking research (on Twitter and Instagram), we have compiled a list of the most heart-melting publishing figures.

Here is a goddamn French Bulldog sleeping under a blanket of Penguin Classics. He’s also British ;)

Tiny, Community Bookstore’s overlord, is famous in Japan.

If you scroll through Mary Todd Lincoln‘s feed, you will see that we have commented the heart eyes emoji on an alarming number of her pictures. She works at Parnassus with a bunch of other lil cuties.

Erato, an employee of Melville House, serenading some humans.

Well-dressed friends Sid, Bizzy & Max, the furry counterparts of Jami Attenberg, Maris Kreizman, and Jason Diamond.

Charlie loves travel, literature, and probably long walks on the beach. He is a very important member of the Harper Perennial team.

Gizzy, The Strand‘s official pet, is friends with celebrity dogs but still very down-to-earth.

Esme Flynn is an actual Dog with a Blog.

Bela Lugosi, who belongs to Ben Samuel and probably helps at the National Book Foundation, is so fun at parties.

Patsy Cline, Small Press Distribution‘s Bark-eting Manager (we will not take credit for this pun), is a fashion icon.

Ecco employee Leopold Bloom is also a famous model.

Cecil loves books so much she wants to be one. She works at Akashic Books.

The ever-elegant Bookrioter Steinbeck.

Brazos Bookstore‘s own coffee connoisseur, Sasha.

Daisy is a lady with a cause (#adoptdon’tshop!!). Here she is guarding Book Club CT.

Remy is a very busy pug who works at Grumpy Bert/Lost Lit and serves as a public face for Poets & Writers.

Mavis, a Grove Atlantic employee, contemplating some of life’s bigger questions.

Cleo, a Riverhead cat, is as aesthetically pleasing as one would expect.

✨ THE TOP 3 CUTIES (AKA ours) ✨

Sasha is friends with a bunch of ducks and has never once been pictured in a tote bag. Neither have the ducks. Please direct all complaints to Jonny Diamond.

Rooney graduated from puppy school summa cum laude.

Lucifer’s hobbies include licking his bed and licking himself.