Topic: Ron Chernow

Jennifer Egan plays with time, wins Pulitzer

Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel about the passage of time set in the digital upending of the music industry.

Pulitzer Prize 2011: Who are the winners in the arts?

From the work of a recent US Poet Laureate to a satire by a Steppenwolf Theatre-affiliated playwright to a Chinese folk-tale-turned opera, the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes for the arts represent a lively and wide-ranging mélange.

Reader recommendation: Washington: A Life

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

To celebrate Washington's birthday: 5 best books about George Washington

If you're an American, you know that George Washington was "the Father of Our Country." But how many of us really know what that means? As we celebrate his 279th birthday, here are five outstanding books that help to bring George Washington and his accomplishments to light.

Best books of 2010: nonfiction

In 2010 Monitor reviewers critiqued hundreds of books. Here's a list of the 28 nonfiction titles they considered the most outstanding. To assist you with your holiday shopping, each title here has a link that allows you to purchase the book – even as you help to support The Christian Science Monitor

Bestselling books the week of 11/11/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores all across America.

Washington: A Life

America’s first president emerges from this marvelous biography an admirable, flawed, and very human figure.

Bestselling books the week of 10/28/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 10/21/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of Oct. 14, 2010, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Alexander Hamilton

READER RECOMMENDATION

National Book Award prizes announced

Alexander Hamilton