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.

6. "Why I Read," by Wendy Lesser

Reading Wendy Lesser, founder and editor of the literary magazine Threepenny Review, is like attending a book club where the leader is an Olympic champion reader. (Think the Dana Torres of page-turning.) In Why I Read, Lesser tackles a deceptively simple question: Why does one read? And just as at your favorite book club, the discussion here is brainy, personal, and occasionally off topic. You can see the Monitor's full review of "Why I Read" here.

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