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 July 2017:

1. Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
2. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
3. The Fallen by Ace Atkins
4. Madame Zero by Sarah Hall
5. Grunt by Mary Roach
6. The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
7. Unsub by Meg Gardiner
8. The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins
9. Found Audio by N.J. Campbell
10. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
11. The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
12. Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore
13. St. Marks is Dead by Ada Calhoun
14. The Songs by Charles Elton
15. The Reason You’re Alive by Matthew Quick
16. Blind Spot by Teju Cole
17. Sweat by Lynn Nottage
18. Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

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: Books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-July-2017