Charles Webb a écrit des romans qui exploraient principalement les thèmes de l'entrée dans l'âge adulte et de la recherche d'identité dans le monde moderne. Son œuvre se caractérisait par un aperçu pénétrant des relations humaines et des pressions sociétales, souvent teinté de cynisme et d'empathie.
In the fast-paced, sexy, and very scary literary thriller Ursula Lake, a husband and wife trying to save their marriage and a rock musician trying to get his career back on track find big trouble, natural and possibly supernatural, in the spellbinding wilds of British Columbia.
At the end of Charles Webb's first novel, The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock rescues his beloved Elaine from a marriage made not in heaven but in California. As the story opens, the Braddock household is in turmoil as the Westchester School Board attempts to quash the unconventional educational methods the family is practising.