TAN Books and Publishers
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| Parent company | Saint Benedict Press |
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| Founded | 1967 |
| Founder | Thomas A. Nelson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Key people | Conor Gallagher (Publisher) |
| Publication types | Books, Booklets, Prayer cards |
| Nonfiction topics | Catholicism |
| Imprints | Confraternity of the Precious Blood Neumann Press American Chesterton Society |
| Official website | www |
TAN Books is a traditional Catholic American book distributor and publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
TAN Books was founded in 1967, as "TAN Books and Publishers," in Rockford, Illinois by Thomas A. Nelson, to keep in print books teaching the traditional Catholic faith in the wake of the upheaval in the Church that followed the Second Vatican Council. The company's name was formed from the initials of the founder, Thomas A. Nelson, not to be confused with the founder of the other Bible-publishing firm Thomas Nelson. Over the next 40 years, TAN published hundreds of new and classic titles on theology, Scripture, Church history, traditional devotions (including St. Louis de Montfort's Secret of the Rosary, printing more than 4 million copies), and the lives of the saints, many of which were reprints of titles published by such notable American Catholic publishers as Benziger Brothers and B. Herder Book Company.
In 1971, TAN republished the Douay–Rheims Bible, which had fallen out of print by the late 1960s, photographically reproducing it from the 1899 John Murphy & Co. edition. In the 1990s, with the advent of computer-based word processing, TAN began re-typesetting many of the titles in its catalog, rather than relying solely upon photographic reproductions of out-of-print works. In 2004, actor and director Mel Gibson's Icon Productions granted TAN the license to publish the Catholic edition of The Passion: Photography from the Movie The Passion of the Christ, a collection of photographs of scenes from the film accompanied with excerpts from the film's screenplay and quotations from the Douay–Rheims.
Financial problems led TAN to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2005. The company was subsequently acquired by Saint Benedict Press in 2008. Following its acquisition, "TAN Books and Publishers" was renamed "TAN Books," with the "TAN" acronym now standing for Tuum Adoremus Nomen (Latin for "Let Us Adore Thy Name"). The company has aimed to improve the quality of its products by commissioning more aesthetically-pleasing covers, employing more durable book construction, and continuing to re-typeset numerous titles in its catalog.
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