Chapter One


Chapter One
Welcome to Chapter One, which allows you to read the first chapters of selected new books. All of these books have been reviewed by The Washington Post.

New This Week

"American Wife," fiction by Curtis Sittenfeld The Post Review

"The Black Hole War," nonfiction by Leonard Susskind The Post Review

Recent Arrivals


"The House at Sugar Beach," nonfiction by Helene Cooper The Post Review

"The Irregulars," nonfiction by Jennet Conant The Post Review

"Out Backwards," fiction by Ross Raisin The Post Review

"For the Thrill of It," nonfiction by Simon Baatz The Post Review

"When We Were Romans," fiction by Matthew Kneale The Post Review

"The End of Food," nonfiction by Paul Roberts The Post Review

"Traffic," nonfiction by Tom Vanderbilt The Post Review

"All the Way Home," nonfiction by David Giffels The Post Review

"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," fiction by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Post Review

"The Gargoyle," fiction by Andrew Davidson The Post Review

"Stand the Storm," fiction by Breena Clarke The Post Review

"A Path Out of the Desert," nonfiction by Kenneth Pollock The Post Review

"Rome 1960," nonfiction by David Maraniss The Post Review

"A Writer's People," nonfiction by V.S. Naipaul The Post Review

"The Condition," fiction by Jennifer Haigh The Post Review

"The Mysterious Montague," nonfiction by Leigh Montville The Post Review

"The Magical Chorus," nonfiction by Solomon Volkov The Post Review

"Cost," fiction by Roxana Robinson The Post Review

"Say You're One of Them," nonfiction by Uwem Akpan The Post Review

"The House on Fortune Street: A Novel," fiction by Margot Livesey The Post Review

"The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel," fiction by Alan Furst The Post Review

"Skeletons at the Feast," fiction by Chris Bohjalian The Post Review

"The Other," fiction by David Guterson The Post Review

"So Brave, Young, and Handsome," fiction by Leif Enger The Post Review

"Snuff," fiction by Chuck Palahniuk The Post Review

"Spies For Hire," nonfiction by Tim Shorrock The Post Review

"Nixonland," nonfiction by Rick Perlstein The Post Review

"Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation," nonfiction by Cokie Roberts The Post Review

"Home: A Memoir of My Early Years," nonfiction by Julie Andrews The Post Review

"No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through "The Odyssey"," nonfiction by Scott Huler The Post Review

"The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom," nonfiction by Martin Amis The Post Review

"The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature," nonfiction by Jonathan Rosen The Post Review

"Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45," nonfiction by Max Hastings The Post Review

"Our Story Begins," fiction by Tobias Wolff The Post Review

"The Open Road," nonfiction by Pico Iyer The Post Review

"Unaccustomed Earth," fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri The Post Review

"Lush Life," fiction by Richard Price The Post Review

"The Shadow Year," fiction by Jeffrey Ford The Post Review

"Animal's People," fiction by Indra Sinha The Post Review

"The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America," nonfiction by David Hajdu The Post Review

"Remember Me?," fiction by Sophie Kinsella The Post Review

"The Soul Thief," fiction by Charles Baxter The Post Review

"Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times," nonfiction by Willie Brown The Post Review

"Windy City: A Novel of Politics," fiction by Scott Simon The Post Review

"Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope," nonfiction by Richard M. Cohen The Post Review

"Dangerous Laughter," fiction by Steven Millhauser The Post Review

"This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War," nonfiction by Drew Gilpin Faust The Post Review

"Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism," nonfiction by Ha-Joon Chang The Post Review

"The Invention of Everything Else," fiction by Samantha Hunt The Post Review

"Coal River," nonfiction by Michael Shnayerson The Post Review

"Day," fiction by A.L. Kennedy The Post Review

"Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam," nonfiction by Pope Brock The Post Review

"They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of The Neocons," nonfiction by Jacob Heilbrunn The Post Review

"Life Class," fiction by Pat Barker The Post Review

"The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters," nonfiction edited by Charlotte Mosley The Post Review

"The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World," nonfiction by Eric Weiner The Post Review

"The Senator's Wife," fiction by Sue Miller The Post Review

"The Latino Challenge to Black America," nonfiction by Earl Ofari Hutchinson The Post Review

"Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal," nonfiction by Randall Kennedy The Post Review

"Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise To Global Dominance -- And Why They Fall," nonfiction by Amy Chua The Post Review

"Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution Of Human-Robot Relationships," nonfiction by David Levy The Post Review

"The Worst Thing I've Done," fiction by Ursula Hegi The Post Review

"Consumption," fiction by Kevin Patterson The Post Review

"God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World," nonfiction by Walter Russell Mead

"Antony and Cleopatra," fiction by Colleen McCullough The Post Review

"Kids Are Americans Too," nonfiction by Bill O'Reilly with Charles Flowers The Post Review

"Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point," nonfiction by Elizabeth D. Samet The Post Review

"Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day," nonfiction by Joel Osteen The Post Review

"The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox," fiction by Maggie O'Farrell The Post Review

"The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food," nonfiction by Judith Jones The Post Review

"Unruly Americans and the Origin of the Constitution," nonfiction by Woody Holton The Post Review

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