10 best books of January: the Monitor's picks

Here are the 10 books that the Monitor's book critics liked best among the January 2014 releases.

4. "Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed," by Ahdaf Soueif

To understand the currents and undercurrents of Egyptian society and politics, it helps to have a local guide. Few are more qualified than Ahdaf Soueif, author of the newly released Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed. Soueif, who has been an author, a political commentator, and an activist amid Egypt’s change and turmoil, is able to take readers back behind the headlines to see the individual Egyptians whose decisions help to shape the country. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Cairo" here.

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