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

"The Sound of Freedom," nonfiction by Raymond Arsenault The Post Review

"A Monster's Notes," fiction by Laurie Sheck The Post Review

Recent Arrivals


"How to Win a Cosmic War," nonfiction by Reza Aslan The Post Review

"Born to Run," nonfiction by Christopher McDougall The Post Review

"A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary," nonfiction by Andrew Levy The Post Review

"The American Future: A History," nonfiction by Simon Schama The Post Review

"Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town ," nonfiction by Nick Reding The Post Review

"The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals," nonfiction by Charles Siebert The Post Review

"The Story Sisters," fiction by Alice Hoffman The Post Review

"Alger Hiss and the Battle for History," nonfiction by Susan Jacoby The Post Review

"Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent," nonfiction by John Reader The Post Review

"The First Tycoon," nonfiction by T.J. Stiles The Post Review

"Gringo," nonfiction by Chesa Boidin The Post Review

"Brooklyn," fiction by Colm Toibin The Post Review

"Annie's Ghosts," nonfiction by Steve Luxenberg The Post Review

"The Walking People," fiction by Mary Beth Keane The Post Review

"The Brothers Boswell," fiction by Philip Baruth The Post Review

"The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship with Saudi Arabia," nonfiction by David B. Ottaway The Post Review

"Vicksburg, 1863," nonfiction by Winston Groom The Post Review

"Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare ," nonfiction by Jonathan Bate The Post Review

"Go Down Together" The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde," nonfiction by Jeff Guinn The Post Review

"Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen," nonfiction by Mark Rudd The Post Review

"The Color of Lightning," fiction by Paulette Jiles The Post Review

"Postcards from Tomorrow Square," nonfiction by James Fallows The Post Review

"Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History and the Wonder of Childbirth," nonfiction by Mark Sloan The Post Review

"How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist," nonfiction by Mark Robert Waldman and Andrew Newberg The Post Review

"Between Barack and a Hard Place," nonfiction by Tim Wise The Post Review

"House of Cards," nonfiction by William D. Cohan The Post Review

"The Somme," nonfiction by Peter Hart The Post Review

"The Missing," fiction By Tim Gautreaux The Post Review

"Child Care Today," nonfiction by Penelope Leach The Post Review

"The Future of Liberalism," nonfiction by Alan Wolfe The Post Review

"The Threat Closer to Home," nonfiction by Douglas Schoen and Michael Rowan The Post Review

"Darwin's Sacred Cause," nonfiction by Adrian Desmond and James C. Moore The Post Review

"Why We Make Mistakes," nonfiction by Jospeh T. Hallinan The Post Review

"Try to Tell the Story," nonfiction by David Thomson The Post Review

"Is God a Mathematician?," nonfiction by Mario Livio The Post Review

"Things I've Been Silent About," nonfiction by Azar Nafisi The Post Review

"Scrapbooks," nonfiction by Jessica Helfand The Post Review

"Lark and Termite," fiction by Jayne Anne Phillips The Post Review

"The Sky Below," fiction by Stacey D'Erasmo The Post Review

"Land of Marvels," fiction by Barry Unsworth The Post Review

"The Rules of the Game," fiction by Leonard Downie, Jr. The Post Review

"The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath," nonfiction by Robert Samuelson The Post Review

"The School on Heart's Content Road," fiction by Carolyn Chute The Post Review

"Thames," nonfiction by Peter Ackroyd The Post Review

"Saving Savannah," nonfiction by Jacqueline Jones The Post Review

"The Gift of Rain," fiction by Tan Twan Eng The Post Review

"The Alchemy of Air," nonfiction by Thomas Hager The Post Review

"Crossing the Continent 1527-1540," nonfiction by Robert Goodwin The Post Review

"Alphabet Juice," nonfiction by Roy Blount Jr. The Post Review

"The Devil We Know," nonfiction by Robert Baer The Post Review

"The Northern Clemency," fiction by Philip Hensher The Post Review

"Outliers," nonfiction by Malcolm Gladwell The Post Review

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