Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books they’ve read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Here are their recommendations for May 2017:

1. Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
2. The Wrong Side Of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
3. Marlena by Julie Buntin
4. Janesville, An American Story by Amy Goldstein
5. Little Victories by Jason Gay
6. The River Of Kings by Taylor Brown
7. American War by Omar El Akkad
8. A Brutal Bunch Of Heartbroken Saps by Nick Kolakowski
9. The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
10. Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
11. The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie
12. Recitation by Bae Suah
13. The Warren by Brian Evenson
14. Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin
15. Hothouse by Karyna Mcglynn
16. Make: A Decade Of Literary Art
17. Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

Click on the links above for a detailed synopsis of each book, or follow the following link to see what the Writer’s Bone crew had to say: http://www.writersbone.com/book-recommendations/books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-may-2017