10 best books of October 2013, according to Amazon's editors

Check out Amazon editors' picks for the best titles being released this month.

7. 'The Night Guest,' by Fiona McFarlane

Australian author Fiona McFarlane's debut novel focuses on widow Ruth, an elderly woman whose quiet days are disrupted when a woman named Frida arrives at her remote seaside home, claiming to be a personal helper from the government. Is Frida who she says she is? "It's both a lovely novel about old age and a little bit of a mystery," Nelson says of the book.

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