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10 best books of January: the Monitor's picks

Here are the 10 books that the Monitor's book critics have enjoyed most in the new year.

2. 'The Silence,' by Shusaku Endo

This 1966 novel by Japanese fiction writer Shusaku Endo is a strange, powerful hybrid of political thriller and religious allegory. It has the suspense of nighttime raids, tenuous alliances, and pursuit and capture, but the true drama is interior and spiritual. The book is now being rereleased in a new English edition, timed to coincide with a 2016 film adaptation directed by Martin Scorsese.

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