10 best books of January 2017, according to Amazon's editors

Here are the best books with which to kick off the New Year, according to the staff at Amazon.

5. 'Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk,' by Kathleen Rooney

"O, Democracy!" writer Rooney's novel tells the story of elderly Lillian Boxfish, who worked as a Macy's copywriter in the 1930s. Now she heads out on a walk to a party and encounters many intriguing people along the way. The book is "a love letter to New York," Schluep says. "...A lovely, literary novel."

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