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.

8. "Under the Wide and Starry Sky," by Nancy Horan

Bestselling author ("Loving Frank") Nancy Horan bases her second novel on the real-life love affair and marriage of author Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Francis Van de Grift Osbourne. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Under the Wide and Starry Sky" here. 

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