Book Review Sites

For Libraries

• Academia : a Monthly Online Magazine of Academic Titles and Information, from Baker & Taylor, with various lists of current titles
• Booklist, American Library Association
• CM: Canadian Review of Materials
• Canadian Book Review Annual
• ForeWord, reviewing books from university and independent presses; partial content, plus weekly email news

The Popular Press

• The Atlantic Monthly
• BookBrowse, with excerpts from many current bestsellers, new fiction and new non-fiction titles
• BookPage
• Bookreporter.com, (was The Book Report from America Online)
• Books, from the Guardian and Observer
• Booksonline, with reviews from Telegraph (U.K. newspaper); includes a searchable archive of reviews since August 1996
• BookTV.org, nonfiction book programs from C-SPAN
• Danny Yee's Book Reviews
• The Good Book Guide
• January Magazine
• London Review of Books, partial contents
• New York Books (NYBooks), a linking of n.b., The New York Review of Books and Granta
• The New York Review of Books, substantial portion of contents from the print counterpart, with archives of recent issues
• The New York Times on the Web
• Printed Matter, by Elisabeth Sherwin, a syndicated weekly column for Northern California newspapers
• RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities, the irreverant semi-digital reincarnation of The Fessenden Review
• Rain Taxi, partial content from the quarterly publication reviewing literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
• The Richmond Review, a UK literary magazine
• Salon Magazine, including its:
  • Book Archives
  • Sneak Peeks, for short reviews
• WashingtonPost.com, including its:
  • Books

Scholarly and Interdisciplinary

• H-Net Reviews, from H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line
• Leonardo Digital Book Reviews, from the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
• Postmodern Culture : An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism

Electronic Publications

• eBook Connections, with eBook reviews and excerpts
• electronic book review (ebr), an Internet literary journal
• The Scout Report, selecting and annotating valuable resources on the Web since 1994, by the Internet Scout Project, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Audio Visual Materials

• MC Journal : The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship

Children's and Young Adults Books

• ACHUKA - Children's Books UK, Independent children's books site including reviews
• Teen Reads
• The BookHive, from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
• Bookworm Newsletter, from KidsReads
• Notes from the Windowsill, "A resource by and for people who love children's books"

Computing and Internet Books

• Computing Reviews, from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Free Pint Bookshelf
• Smartbooks.com, Selects and briefly reviews best books on the Internet, breaking them into over 30 subjects
• Technology and Society, Reviews of literature documenting technology's interactions with society
• Webdeveloper.com Book Reviews, by Scott Clark; reviews of books on Internet programming and Web development

History

• Comitatus : A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, from the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Law and Political Science

• Books-on-Law, reviewing new and forthcoming scholarly and trade books related to law; from JURIST: The Law Professors' Network
• Law and Politics Book Review
• The Washington Monthly Magazine, including Book Review Archives

Literature and Fiction

• Early Modern Literary Studies, a Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Music

• Gramophone Magazine

Mysteries

• The Mystery Reader

Regional

• IndiaStar
• Read Ireland Book News, from Read Ireland Bookstore

Romance

• The Romance Reader
• Romantic Times Magazine

Science and Mathematics

• BOOKNews, Short reviews of books in science, technology and medicine
• E-STREAMS, Electronic reviews of science & technology references covering engineering, agriculture, medicine and science; Yankee Book Peddler, Inc.
• SIAM Review, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• The Science Book Board, (formerly The Space Book Board) Book and software reviews on astronomy and other sciences

Science Fiction

• Locus, winner of the Hugo Award
• Seized by the Tale, Reviews of fantasy books and comics

Social Sciences & Psychology

• Anthropology Review Database (ARD)
• Metapsychology Online Review, Reviews of books on mental health and emotions

Other Directories of Books Reviews on the Web

• Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature, by Piet Wesselman; a delightful collection of links
• Yahoo's list of literature review sites