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It’s what’s for dinner:

A Woman Alone At Night by Tamara Faith Berger " [H]ot...sharp, powerful."— SEE Magazine

African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Christine Swartz Hartley. “Taxi Driver for Africa’s blank generation.” Time Out New York

The City In Crimson Cloak by Asli Erdogan, translated by Amy Spangler. "An exceptionally sensitive and perceptive writer who gives us perfect literary texts....”—Orhan Pamuk

Gone and Back Again by Jonathan Scott Fuqua " [D]arkly humorous...intimate...conveys pathos and heartbreak while maintaining Caley's rich voice."—Publishers Weekly

Guantanamo by Dorothea Dieckmann, translated by Tim Mohr. " Reading it can cause a sort of bone-chill to set in, and an even more discomforting sense of awe. ”—Village Voice “Excellent”—Playboy

Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe. Quill Award Finalist. LitBlog Co-op Read This! Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007. Nuff said.

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez. The book that generated an Alice Sebold reader review on Amazon.

My Happy Life by Lydia Millet. Re-whet your Millet appetite before we publish How the Dead Dream in January…

Vibrator by Mari Akasaka, translated by Michael Emmerich. “Disturbing and original”—Esquire


And the 2006 bonus (cause there’s always a bonus with Soft Skull): H20 by Mark Swartz. "A short, sharp shock, a jab to the eyeball and brain, H2O by Mark Swartz is a more telling commentary on our society now as Don DeLillo's White Noise was in its time. Savagely precise, clever but not shallow, Swartz's writing lacerates even as it's deeply, disturbingly funny."-Jeff VanderMeer