LeftWord Books is a New Delhi–based publisher that seeks to reflect the views of the Left in India and South Asia.

Its Managing Director is Prakash Karat, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M).

It was conceived by a group of Leftist intellectuals including Prabhat Patnaik, Aijaz Ahmad, Indira Chandrasekhar, Prakash Karat, V. K. Ramachandran and N. Ram and sometimes regarded as "the English publishing arm of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)".

LeftWord differs from Tulika Books, according to Deshpande, by being explicitly Leftist.

It also has a membership-based book club, whose subscriptions served to form the seed capital of the publishing division.