Book Reviews

Suggested resources for finding reviews for current or historical book publications

Book Reviews - General Resources

Best Sellers LibGuide
LibGuide created by John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian, for his class on 20th Century Best Sellers. Links to class created Best Seller Database.

JSTOR
Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in the areas of anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. A
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NexisUni
Book review citations and many full-text reviews.
Web of Knowledge/Web of Science
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which can be searched together or separately. Allows users to limit search result to reviews.
Use the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) to find impact factors for journals in science, social sciences, and technology.

Consult Humanities Book Reviews or Social Sciences Book Reviews for more specific book review resources.
For book reviews of older books you might consult the printed book review resources.

Google Book Search
Choose "About this Book" for a summary and reviews.
New York Review of Books.
Reviews since 1963; searchable by author, title, publisher, keyword, and date.
Amazon.com
Customer reviews plus reviews written by Amazon staff and culled from a number of recognized reviewing resources.
Bookforum
Archived copies available in Virgo through 03/31/2022.
CSPAN Booknotes Archive
RealAudio author interviews and book synposes back to 1997 from the bibliophiles at C-SPAN. Many entries nclude book excerpts.
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Several thousand book reviews (including more than 1,100 from 1998 alone) from this on-line scholarly review journal. Reviews back to 1993.
Jewish Currents
London Review of Books
Online federated access for electronic articles.
Physical copies available in the periodicals room, Shannon 4th floor.
Los Angeles Review of Books
n+1 Magazine
Physical copies of volumes 1-25 (2004-2016) available from Ivy Stacks by request.
The New Yorker
Archives from 1925 - present.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture, and seminal developments across nearly a century.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature is an index to the most popular and important periodicals. Covering subjects such as art, business, education and entertainment, it is an ideal general reference database for educators, students and patrons.