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Here's what's on our 2008 fiction list:

Black Flies by Shannon Burke "Searing and morally resonant… for anyone who has flirted with fashionable jadedness or suffered disappointments that led to a sullen fascination with the darker side of human experience, Burke blows apart the pose." —New York Times Book Review "...excellent job of re-creating the social and political atmosphere of early 1990s Harlem, and his main characters are meticulously and realistically developed, but it's the insights associated with being a paramedic that make this such a powerful read." —Chicago Tribune ".A gifted stylist, the author makes a thoughtful stab at showing what constant danger can do to an ambulance worker and to a neighborhood’s inhabitants. He also knows when to step back to provocative effect, prompting readers to grapple with the horrors as if they were experiencing them firsthand." —Time Out New York

Mercury Under My Tongue by Sylvain Trudel, translated by Sheila Fischman. “Fréderic's first-person narrative reads like a high-speed train barrelling toward a head-on collision with a mountainside." — Toronto Globe and Mail “Frédéric refuses to entertain self-pity, and his voice is immediate, winning and utterly believable until the end." — Publishers Weekly


Wildly Irish by Dick WImmer. “Dick Wimmer writes like a prince. Seamus Boyne is own of the great creations in recent fiction.” Pat Conroy

All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison. "Evison’s debut novel glows with evocative details and unforgettable scenes . . . Will’s voice is entirely his own—romantic and cutting, believing and skeptical, soaring and down-to-earth. . . . At turns anguished and entertaining, Will effortlessly offers us a story of sweet complexity, about the people you want to hold on to, and the ones you have to let go.” —Time Out New York

Dead in Desemboque by Eddy Arellano "Will Schaff's ornate images evoke the Mexican days of the dead; Richard Schuler's more regular art evokes a rougher Robert Crumb; and Alec Thibodeau's calculatedly primitive, open style compliments the psychedelic landscape Arellano conjures in three tongues: English, Spanish, and forked.”—The Boston Globe

Mr. Spic Goes to Washington by Ilan Stavans ""One of the most influential figures in Latino literature in the United States.”—The New York Times

Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar. “I’ve been a fan of Martin’s work for almost twenty years.”—Neil Gaiman

Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me by Martin Millar. "[T]he funniest writer in Britain today.”—GQ


The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle. “Fans will rejoice—in their own dystopian way—at the arrival of this mesmerizing installment.... Ohle’s creation of a vivid world, both familiar and foreign, dark and slyly humorous, makes the book a grim delight.”—Publishers Weekly "American readers should take note of this insurgent fiction writer, David Ohle, who flays the human condition to singular, hallucinatory effect.” —Village Voice, Best Books of 2004

Bad Habits by Cristy Road. “A party on the page, or a riot, or a revolution.” —Michelle Tea

And the bonus (cause there’s always a bonus with Soft Skull): How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet, published by Counterpoint Press. "At once an involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss - planetary and otherwise - Millet's latest unfolds like a beautiful, disturbing dream." —Publishers Weekly starred review