Hour Four Mini-Challenge: Indie Books

Here are the spines of the books I plan to read (or try to read) today. Little Women is an illustrated edition published by Grosset & Dunlap, now a part of Penguin. The Barfighter is an ARC, published by The Permanent Press, which is a true independent press. Eggs is published by Little, Brown - an imprint of Hachette, so it wouldn't qualify. Outlander is published by Dell (Random House). Little Men is an edition which belonged to my mother as a child, published by Nelson Doubleday (now part of Random House). I'm reading another Permanent Press book, too, another ARC, The Disappearance. Finally, I have Amagansett, which is published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin. So I guess the two Permanent Press books are my only two independently published books. But at least I have two!!! This was a cool mini-challenge because it made me think more about who's publishing what I read. I've never really paid attention before, and it was interesting to research the various arms of the big publishing houses.