It’s that time of year again! Help us celebrate the Soho titles that earned spots on 2024’s “Best Of” compilations and award lists.
We are tremendously proud to publish our books and could not be happier for the authors and designers who brought them into the world. This holiday season, we want to say “thank you” to all the readers and booksellers who championed them throughout the year.
Soho Crime
The Comfort of Ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear
A New York Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
An American Bookseller Association Indie Bestseller
The Washington Post’s 10 Best Works of Historical Fiction in 2024
An Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far
The Boston Globe Best Books of Summer
BookBub’s Best Historical Fiction of Summer 2024
“Winspear gives Maisie the grace to face her pain, and wraps up the series with a deft touch. Like many readers, I will dearly miss the voice of Maisie Dobbs.”
—Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review
Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody
An ELLE Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024
A Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick
An Amazon Top 10 Best of the Month Pick for January
An ABA Indie Next Pick for January 2024
A CrimeReads Best Debut of the Month
A Most Anticipated Book in Paste Magazine, Audible, Lit Hub, and Deadly Pleasures
“Brody wisely builds the suspense around Teddy’s dissolution and paranoia . . . creating an atmosphere so suffocating and panicky that readers will feel the effects of loss, grief, and confusion as surely as if they were inside Teddy’s very smart and once better-adjusted mind.”
—NPR.org
Exposure by Ramona Emerson
A Barnes & Noble Best Mystery & Thriller Book of 2024
The Washington Post’s 10 Best Thrillers of 2024
BookPage’s 10 Best Books of 2024
An Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Series Books of 2024
A LibraryReads Top Pick of the Month
Apple Books Best Books of the Month
“In addition to it being an enthralling story I love that this contemporary mystery combining police procedure, photo technology, and a bit of the paranormal with a complex protagonist was written by a woman who is, herself, Diné and was actually a police photographer in Albuquerque.”
—Colorado Sun
The Murder of Mr. Ma
by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan
NPR’s Books We Love 2024
Named a Best Mystery Book of the Year by Parade, Library Journal, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel
An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery Book of the Month
“A glorious mash up of fan fiction (with tips of the hat to Robert van Gulik and Arthur Conan Doyle), kung fu prowess (Dee could easily star in a martial arts movie) and droll social commentary (‘The British,’ Dee remarks early on, ‘are oddly vulnerable to charm’).”
—The New York Times Book Review
Broiler by Eli Cranor
A 2024 Great Group Reads Selection
An Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Books of 2024
A South Florida Sun Sentinel Best Mystery Book of 2024
An Amazon Top 10 Best of the Month Pick for July
A Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Books of Summer
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Recommended Summer Read
“This gripping, gritty noir is Upton Sinclair on hormones, the Coen brothers deep-fried.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ash Dark as Night
by Gary Phillips
A Parade Best Mystery Book of 2024
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024
“Evocative . . . This novel is steeped in period details like snap-brim hats and ragtop Chevy Bel Air convertibles . . . But it’s Harry’s clear-eyed take on the fallen world around him that makes this series so powerful.
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
The Devil
Raises His Own
by Scott Phillips
A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery Book of 2024
A Parade Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024
CrimeReads Best Historical Fiction of 2024
“Phillips means not only to write of the early years of the 20th century but also to channel something of their sensibility. The strategy is compelling . . . At the heart of The Devil Raises His Own is the idea of Hollywood as apotheosis of a certain kind of American ingenuity or gumption, the Southern California booster myth writ large.”
—Alta Journal
Agnes Sharp and
the Trip of a Lifetime
by Leonie Swann
translated by Amy Bojang
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2024
“A hilariously madcap adventure . . . Fans of the first book, The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp, will revel in this sequel, but the book also works for newcomers to the series.”
—The Washington Post
The Hollow Tree by Philip Miller
A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery Book of 2024
“The Hollow Tree deftly weaves into a tortuous string of mysteries, dark supernatural threads . . . A wholly unnerving tale.”
—Sally McDonald, Sunday Post
Eight Very Bad Nights
edited by Tod Goldberg
A South Florida Sun Sentinel Best Mystery Fiction Book of 2024
“Even the weirdest narratives retain a certain here’s-grit-in-your-eye homage to the noir genre, in which tough exteriors can conceal hearts of gold. But just as often, tough exteriors belong to hardened criminals, and figuring out who is who will keep you up reading late by your Menorah lights.”
—Oprah Daily
Against the Grain
by Peter Lovesey
A Parade Best Mystery Book of 2024
“Crime-fiction writers from Conan Doyle to Dorothy Sayers to Donald Westlake have mixed whimsy with mystery to a lesser or greater degree, but it’s hard to name any who’ve achieved a better balance of comedy with harsh reality than Peter Lovesey . . . In Against the Grain, he has arranged for both his endearing character and himself to bid goodbye to us all in a satisfying and elegant manner.”
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
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Hell’s Hundred
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
New York Times Best Horror Fiction of 2024
Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Horror
Parade’s Best Horror Books of 2024
B&N Reads’ Best Horror Books of 2024
Goodreads’ Biggest Horror Reads of Summer
Goodreads Readers’ Most Anticipated Summer Books
Deadly Pleasures’ Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2024
“A violent blend of crime and horror that plays with the definitions of predator and prey. However, the story’s real heart comes from its exploration of family and its consideration of what a mother will do for her child . . . This twisty, relentlessly paced novel shine[s].”
—Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times Book Review
youthjuice by E.K. Sathue
A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024
A CrimeReads Best Horror Novel of 2024
“It takes a deft hand to write a story that is hilarious and terrifying in equal measure, and it’s to E.K. Sathue’s great credit that she threads that needle . . . A blistering, surreal satire of toxic wellness culture, perfect for fans of dark-edged feminist writers like Mona Awad and Leigh Stein.”
—Portland Press Herald
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Soho Press
The Audacity by Ryan Chapman
Longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Spring
The Millions Most Anticipated Books of Spring
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024
“Chapman’s skewering of the rich, the very rich and the ultrarich as they debate the world’s ills is as incisive as it is hilarious.”
—The Washington Post
This Plague of Souls
by Mike McCormack
The Times Literary Supplement Best Books of the Year 2023
The New Statesman Best Books of the Year 2023
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024
“A memorable attempt to evoke the murky contemporary relationship between individuals and unseen global systems. As its mysteries compound, the novel constructs a vast speculative network in which everything appears conspiratorially connected—‘art and politics, light and dark, past and future’—yet nothing is really understood.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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Soho Teen
Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada
An Indigo Best Teen Book of 2024
Bookshop.org Best of YA Fiction for 2024
An ABA Kids’ Indie Next Pick for March/April 2024
A Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book for Teens
Indigo’s Most Anticipated Teen Books
“Not only does this story show an authentic evolution of character, a beautiful coming of age, but it shows that there are lots of ways to be gay. This is so worth reading.”
—The News-Gazette
The Lost Souls of Benzaiten
by Kelly Murashige
New York Public Library’s Best Books for Teens 2024
“[A] novel about trauma, mental health, and understanding how many ways a person who doesn’t speak can still communicate . . . While the story frequently feels so grounded in reality, and in the struggles of coping—and of wanting to cope—that come with losing friends and loved ones, that makes the divine elements feel even more whimsical and dazzling.”
—Paste Magazine