LibGuides: Online Reference Resources: Book Reviews

Finding Book Reviews

Find a Book Review online using Summon. Check off the box "book review" under Content Type to the left. Use the following databases to find a specific book reviews :

Academic Search Complete : Under Advanced Search, select book review under Document Type. It brings up book reviews, if any, for that particular title or keywords used.

Canadian Newsstand : Add the book title or keywords to the search box followed by AND book review.

CBCA Complete : Select Advanced Search and under Document Type, select Review.

Book Reviews Online

American book review
The American Book Review is an award-winning, internationally distributed publication that specializes in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women's presses.
Harvard Review
The Harvard Review has emerged as a major American literary journal with recent selections that have been anthologized in: Best American Essays 2003, 2004, 2009, and 2010; Best American Poetry 2002, 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2013; Best American Short Stories 2003, 2005, and 2010; Best American Mystery Stories 2006; Best New Poets 2008; Best Canadian Short Stories 2013; and Pushcart Prize Anthology 2001, 2004, 2012, and 2013.
New York times Book Review

Choice Reviews Online Source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and Choice Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research.
Readers' Guide Abstracts Contains indexing and abstracting for more than 450 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Coverage for this database spans from 1983 to the present.
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 important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (H.W. Wilson) Includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.
Canadian Book Review Annual Online Access to book reviews of scholarly, reference, literary, trade, children’s, and young-adult books, all Canadian authored and published.
Book Review Digest Plus Library tool that brings together book reviews on a wide range of topics, from a variety of sources. Unlike reviews on book-sale sites and the open Internet, many of the reviews are serious, academic works. This invaluable resource for literary and biographical research is essential for readers’ advisory and collection development.
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this Retrospective database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20th century found expression in books. The reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of those books, and this database makes it easy to search this vast record of information.

Reference Reviews Online

ARBA Online
American Reference Books Annual (ARBA), an authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works.