BANTAM BOOKS

'Bantam Books' is a major U.S. publishing house owned by Random House and is part of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine. It has since been purchased several times by many companies including National General and currently Random House.
Bantam has published the entire original run of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books, as well as the first original novels (aimed at adults) based upon the ''Star Trek'' franchise, publishing about a dozen such books between 1970 and 1982 when the licence was taken over by Pocket Books. Bantam also published a dozen volumes of short story adaptations of scripts from ''. Bantam is the American paperback publisher of The Guinness Book of Records.
In their ''Bantam Classics Series'', they offer a wide range of classic books (e.g. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Candide by Voltaire or Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) from all kinds of different authors and themes.

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Bantam has published a diverse range of authors, including:

★ Isaac Asimov

★ Louis L'Amour

★ Ray Bradbury

★ William T. Cox

★ S. S. Van Dine

★ Stephen R. Donaldson

★ Frederick Forsyth

★ Lisa Gardner

★ Elizabeth George

★ William Gibson

★ John Glenn

★ Daniel Goleman

★ Graham Greene

★ Stephen Hawking

★ Tami Hoag

★ Robin Hobb

★ James D. Hornfischer

★ Iris Johansen

★ Emilie Loring

★ Daniel Quinn

★ Shmuel Katz

★ Dean Koontz

★ Robert Ludlum

★ William March

★ George R. R. Martin

★ Anne McCaffrey

★ Joseph Murphy

★ Michael Palmer

★ Robert M. Pirsig

★ Tom Robbins

★ Jane Roberts

★ H. Norman Schwarzkopf

★ Jerry Seinfeld

★ John Steinbeck

★ Neal Stephenson

★ Bruce Sterling

★ Rex Stout

★ William Tenn

★ Elie Wiesel

★ Alan Campbell

★ Adam Smith

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