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Hunter Library
Research Guides
Western Carolina University

Find Book Reviews: Find Book Reviews

How to find book reviews for popular and scholarly books.

Start Here

The library's OneSearch is great for finding book reviews, but you need to activate Book Reviews on the results list (the default search does not include reviews). Choose see all results, then you will see the filter options:

Click on Book Review to Add Reviews to Results List

Reviews of Recently-published Books

Reviews of Older Books (published before 1990)

Reviews of subject-specific books

If you don't see your subject or discipline in the list below, try Academic Search Complete--it is usually a great place to start.

Good books to read!

Finding Reviews of Recently-published Books

Use this quick search to search within a variety of review sources.  TIP: search for the author's name, the book to be reviewed, then limit to "reviews" after you search.

Limit Your Results

Look for reviews with substance.  If you can find one that is a page or longer, it probably gives you a more in-depth reading and analysis than the short ones from Publisher's Weekly.  
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