Library Guides: English Literature: Modern and Contemporary: Find Book Reviews

Finding Book Reviews

Book reviews may not be as analytical or scholarly as criticism, but reflect more immediate reaction to a book upon publication. There are some tricks to finding book reviews in the general databases. There are also indexes that list only book reviews.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than an abundance of journals and covers extensive academic disciplines and provides comprehensive content, including PDF back-files, videos, and searchable cited references.
Contains 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Date Coverage:Varies; primarily 1970s-present with some titles covering earlier dates

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New York Times-Books
The online version of the New York Times Book Review, this contains reviews of fiction and non-fiction, as well as essays on literary culture. Select "Search within this publication" and search by title, author, or keyword.
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Select "Find Journal" in the columns by either Academic Search Complete or Literature Online. From there, select the "Search within this publication" link.

ABELL
Contains monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations related to the study of literature and linguistics.
Contains works published from all over the world with a multitude of English literature covered. Such as but not limited to British, American, Commonwealth and Anglo-Saxon culture.Date Coverage: 1920-present

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Book Review Digest
Ready Reference Ready Ref. Z1219 .C96 1905-2003
Book Review Index
Ready Reference Ready Ref. Z1035.A1 B62 1965-present

Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Date Coverage: 1890-1982

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