Updated March 2007
REVIEWS
Academic
Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications
covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Allreaders.com
7 separate databases allow booklovers to find new titles.
Offers plot summaries and insight into the nature of the book, i.e. bad
language, violence, overall tone and the types of characters. This site
offers much more than mere genre searching.
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The
Atlantic Online
Access book reviews and author interviews from the print
and online versions of Atlantic Monthly magazine.
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Book
Browser
Sponsored by Barnes & Nobel, this is extensive website
offers reading lists by genre with each title containing published and
customer reviews. From the Book Club tab on the toolbar one can access
discussion questions.
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Booklist
Published by the American Library Association, this website
is the online version of Booklist magazine. Booklist offers a collection
of brief reviews as well as author interviews.
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Book
Page
Includes book reviews and interviews with authors. Click
on Archives to search their database of reviews.
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The
Denver Post
Offers reviews published in their newspaper and in some
cases one is able to read the first chapter of a book. Use the links
Read
Older Fiction Reviews or Read
Older Non-fiction Reviews to access title lists.
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Infotrac
General Reference Gold
Access full-text articles in hundreds of magazines, journals
and newspapers. This is an excellent source for author interviews and
book reviews.
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Librarian's
Index to the Internet - Literature & Books
Created by librarians, this website offers links
to quality websites on all topics of literature. Good links to try are
authors, book reviews, fiction by genre, literature by country, and
study guides.
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New
York Times Book Review
The New York Times does not charge to access their book
reviews, but you will be required to create a member ID and password
to enter the site. Their database dates back to 1996.
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Novelist
The database offers suggestions for student and adult
readers, author biographies, discussion questions, reviews and summaries
of contemporary fiction as well as links to author websites.
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Oprah's
Book Club
Link to Oprah' Book Club Archive. Discover titles by
year, read summaries, reviews, author biographies and view the online
discussion. You may need to join the Oprah Book Club, at no cost, to
view all titles.
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Overbooked
Provides hundred of links to websites which features
authors, publishers, reviews, suggested fiction by genre, and themed
booklists.
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Publishers
Weekly
Discover the bestsellers and access reviews for both
children's and adult fiction and non-fiction.
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Salon.com
This website is an online magazine which does daily book
reviews and some author interviews.
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