Books from Soho Press
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
By National Museum of American HistoryAmerican Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government.
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The Satapur Moonstone
By Sujata MasseyThe highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill.
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Play the Red Queen
By Juris JurjevicsSet in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Viet Nam War, Play the Red Queen is Juris Jurjevics’s capstone contribution to a lifelong literary ...
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
By Edwidge DanticatAt the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers.
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Spook Street
By Mick HerronThese are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services to watch him.
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Making History: A Novel
By Stephen FryThis “terrific” novel of alternate history asks: What if Hitler had never been born? (The Washington Post) Michael Young is a graduate student at Cambridge who is completing his dissertation on the early life of Adolf Hitler.
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A Spider in the Cup
By Barbara CleverlyAt dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a missing toe and a priceless gold coin in her mouth.
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies
By SJ Sindu“What a gorgeous, heartbreaking novel.”—Roxane Gay A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel offers a moving and sharply rendered exploration of friendship, ...
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies
By S. J. SinduLucky is an unemployed millennial programmer.
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Honeymoon to Nowhere
By Akimitsu Takagi"Etsuko loves the shy, young lecturer who clumsily (albeit charmingly) courts her.
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Krik? Krak!
By Edwidge DanticatSpare, elegant and moving, these stories cohere into a superb collection.
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Who Done It?
By Jon ScieszkaIt's not like I've stationed myself in front of my mirror on a nightly basis preparing my story until it sounded ... Not just that he kept interrupting, not just that mountain of flesh blocking my view, but that this supposedly great ...
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Bloodhounds
By Peter Lovesey“Peter Lovesey tosses off a real brain-banger in Bloodhounds, the fourth book in a challenging series.
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Three Hours in Paris
By Cara BlackKate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fuhrer.
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Murder at the Porte de Versailles
By Cara BlackThis riveting 20th installment entangles Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris's 15th arrondissement.
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The Aimee Leduc Companion: A Guide to Cara Black's Paris
By Cara BlackThis is the perfect guide to Paris for armchair travelers and the ultimate companion to Cara Black's bestselling Aimée Leduc series.
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Murder in Belleville
By Cara BlackAimee barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.
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What Is Time to a Pig?
By John StraleyIn this mind-bending crime novel by Shamus Award–winner John Straley, one man attempts to save his town from nuclear annihilation.
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The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction
By Dale PeckPeck digs further still, unearthing searing and brilliant work from several writers whose stories are out of print and only available in this volume, including Sam D'Allesandro, who died at age 31 at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
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A Loyal Character Dancer
By Qiu XiaolongAssigned to help the wife of an important witness to reach the United States safely, U.S. marshal Catharine Rohn learns that the woman has vanished, while inspector Chen reluctantly assumes the task of saving face.