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 October 2017:

1. THE LAST BALLAD BY WILEY CASH
2. SHALLOW GRAVES: THE HUNT FOR THE NEW BEDFORD SERIAL KILLER BY MAUREEN BOYLE
3. HAVE YOU MET NORA? BY NICOLE BLADES
4. BONE BY YRSA DALEY-WARD
5. MY ABSOLUTE DARLING BY GABRIEL TALLENT
6. SING, UNBURIED, SING BY JESMYN WARD
7. ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS BY RONALD H. BALSON
8. HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE BY KELLYE GARRETT
9. BLURRED LINES: RETHINKING SEX, POWER, AND CONSENT ON CAMPUS BY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS
10. AN UNKINDNESS OF MAGICIANS BY KAT HOWARD
11. DREAMFIELD BY ETHAN BRYAN
12. UNCOMMON TYPE: SOME STORIES BY TOM HANKS
13. GOOD BONES BY MAGGIE SMITH
14. FROM THE DUST RETURNED BY RAY BRADBURY
15. ALL OUR PRETTY SONGS BY SARAH MCCARRY
16. ASK BABA YAGA: OTHERWORLDLY ADVICE FOR EVERYDAY TROUBLES BY TAISIA KITAISKAIA
17. TALES OF FALLING AND FLYING BY BEN LOORY
18. HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
19. MRS. FLETCHER BY TOM PERROTTA

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/2017/10/9/19-books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-october-2017