Riverhead Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy.

Writers published by Riverhead include Ali Sethi, Marlon James, Junot Díaz, George Saunders, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, Anne Lamott, Carlo Rovelli, Randall Munroe, Patricia Lockwood, Sarah Vowell, the Dalai Lama, Chang-rae Lee, Meg Wolitzer, Dinaw Mengestu, Daniel Alarcón, Daniel H. Pink, Steven Johnson, Jon Ronson, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Gilbert, James McBride, Jing Tsu[1], C Pam Zhang an Garrard Conley.

Authors published by Riverhead won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize[2] for four out of its first six years.

Four authors have won MacArthur Genius Grants and many writers Riverhead has published have given TED Talks.

In 2019, Riverhead author Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature.