Akashic Books

Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.

Here are some titles I think are worth checking out:
http://www.akashicbooks.com/

Tango for a Torturer

by Daniel Chavarria

translated by Peter Bush
Mystery/Latin American Literature

Of Grunge and Government:

Let's Fix this Broken Democracy!

by Krist Novoselic

Nonfiction/Political Science/Memoir

South of the Pumphouse

by Les Claypool