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 December 2017:

1. SMOTHERED BY M.C. HALL

2. THE DEMON CROWN BY JAMES ROLLINS

3. THERE ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAN BEYONCÉ BY MORGAN PARKER

4. THE LOST PRAYERS OF RICKY GRAVES BY JAMES HAN MATTSON

5. AMERICA’S WOMEN: 400 YEARS OF DOLLS, DRUDGES, HELPMATES, AND HEROINES BY GAIL COLLINS

6. KING OF SPIES BY BLAINE HARDEN

7. WHAT WE BUILD UPON THE RUINS BY GIANO CROMLEY

8. CHASING PORTRAITS BY ELIZABETH RYNECKI

9. THE FROZEN HOURS BY JEFF SHAARA

10. DOUBLE FEATURE BY OWEN KING

11. COLORADO BOULEVARD BY PHOEF SUTTON

12. THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS: THE UNITED STATES DURING RECONSTRUCTION AND THE GILDED AGE, 1865-1896 BY RICHARD WHITE

13. A NEGRO AND AN OFAY BY DANNY GARDNER

14. THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK BY KRISTEN LEPIONKA

15. THE PLOT IS MURDER BY VM BURNS

16. ARE YOU SLEEPING BY KATHLEEN BARBER

17. THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE BY CHIARA BARZINI

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/2017/12/7/17-books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-december-2017