The Book Report: New books for fall (Aug. 31)
The Washington Post book reviewer offers upcoming highlights from the new season's fiction and non-fiction releases.
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The Book Report: Ron Charles on new summer reads (July 20)
The Washington Post book reviewer offers highlights from the season's fiction and non-fiction releases.
The Book Report: Ron Charles on new summer reads (May 25)
The Washington Post book reviewer offers highlights from the season's fiction and non-fiction releases.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (March 9)
The "Sunday Morning" book reviewer offers his picks for the best new titles among fiction and non-fiction releases.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (January 26)
The "Sunday Morning" book reviewer offers his suggestions for the new year, including new novels by Adam Ross and Alafair Burke.
The Book Report: Ron Charles on the best books of 2024
The Washington Post book reviewer offers his picks for some of "the best of the best" fiction and non-fiction of the year.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (October 13)
The "Sunday Morning" book reviewer offers his suggestions for fall reading, including new novels by Richard Powers, Rachel Kushner and Danzy Senna.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (July 14)
This month's recommended fiction and non-fiction titles include new novels by Joseph O'Neill, Claire Lombardo and Julia Phillips, and a biography of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (June 2)
This month's fiction and non-fiction titles include an unfinished thriller by "Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton, completed more than 15 years after Crichton's death by bestselling writer James Patterson.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (April 28)
This month's fiction and non-fiction titles include the follow-up from Amor Towles, author of the international sensation, "A Gentleman in Moscow."
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (March 17)
This month's fiction and non-fiction titles take us from pre-Civil War America to modern-day politics, the rise of Silicon Valley, and the future of the planet.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (February 18)
Snow and ice have you housebound? Our book reviewer offers recommendations of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including a biography of a civil rights hero.
The Book Report: Ron Charles' favorite novels of 2023
The Washington Post book reviewer offers his picks for the best fiction of the year.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (October 22)
With Halloween creeping up on us, our book reviewer recommends some new novels haunted by ghosts and monsters of one kind or another.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (September 17)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including a controversial new biography of Elon Musk.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (August 6)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including a new novel by Richard Russo, and a biography of an assassinated U.S. president.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (June 4)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including the latest by New York Times bestselling novelist Emma Cline, "The Guest."
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (April 30)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Tom Hanks.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (March 19)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including the latest from Booker Prize-winning novelist Eleanor Catton.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (February 12)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles, including the latest novel by Salman Rushdie, "Victory City."
The Book Report: Ron Charles' favorite novels of 2022
The Washington Post book reviewer shares his top fiction titles of the year.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (November 13)
Recommendations from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles for the fall, including works by Barbara Kingsolver and Booker Prize-winner Shehan Karunatilaka.
The Book Report: Fall picks from Washington Post critic Ron Charles
Our critic offers some fall reading recommendations, from a new novel by a Nobel Prize-winner, to the latest page-turner from a bestselling author of political thrillers.
The Book Report: New summer fiction and nonfiction
Washington Post book critic Ron Charles offers his picks of new titles, including the return of "Election" heroine Tracy Flick.
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