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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.

5. 'The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor,' by Elizabeth Norton

Fans of British history and the Tudor dynasty will not want to miss this solid but easy-to-read historical novel about Queen Elizabeth I and her relationship with courtier Thomas Seymour. Elizabeth Norton, who is a Tudor scholar, lets her imagination run wild in depicting what might have happened between young Elizabeth and her mentor, but she also undergirds her storytelling with a good base of period knowledge.

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