Book Reviews & Information

Pittsburgh & Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Book Section
  http://www.post-gazette.com/books/
  Current and past Book Reviews from the Pittsburgh daily newspaper.
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Books
  Includes book reviews and literary calendar.

United States

• New York Times Books
  Search for book reviews back to 1996. Use quotes around phrases. Free registration with the NY Times required.
  • Book Review Index
  • Bestseller Lists
• ALA's Booklist Online
  http://www.booklistonline.com/
  The digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine; annually reviews nearly 4,000 adult books, more than 2,500 titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials.
• Beatrice
  http://www.beatrice.com/
  Check this online magazine for interviews with authors.
• Booknotes.org
  http://www.booknotes.org/
  Booknotes, C-SPAN's signature author interview program, is a forum for books about history, politics and public affairs. On this website, you can watch the program.
• BookPage
  http://www.bookpage.com/
  "a national review publication helping nearly one million people each month select their books and learn more about the people writing them. Much of the content here is unique to this site or is an enhancement of the material available in the printed edition of BookPage."
• Bookreporter.com
  http://www.bookreporter.com/
  The premier book site on America Online and the largest book conversation in cyberspace.
• Book TV.org
  http://www.booktv.org/
  Each weekend, Book TV on C-SPAN2 features 48 hours of nonfiction books from 8am Saturday to 8am Monday. This web site will enhance information on those books, provide an opportunity to watch or listen to programs you might have missed, and provide additional information not available on the network.
• Chicago Tribune: Books
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/
  An expanded Chicago Tribune books section plus book discussion groups.
• CliffsNotes
  http://www.cliffsnotes.com/
  In September of 2004, offered 180 literature guides that could be read for free (there's a fee to download them).
• Eye On Books
  http://www.eyeonbooks.com/
  Interviews with authors of fiction and nonfiction by Bill Thompson, radio interviewer.
• H-Net Reviews: in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  http://www.h-net.org/reviews/
  Online reviews from H-Net Electronic Discussion Lists.
• Library Journal
  http://www.libraryjournal.com/
  On this sites you can get book news, lists and reviews of PrePub Best Sellers, Subject Best Sellers, and Hot Picks.
• National Public Radio (NPR): Books
  http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1032
  Check here for book reviews, author interviews, summer reading lists, and you can listen to some of them online. You can also sign up for their BookNotes Newsletter.
• National Science Teachers Association Recommends
  http://www2.nsta.org/recommends/
  Reviews of books for Kindergarten-12th grade.
• New York Review of Books
  http://www.nybooks.com/
  Begun during the newspaper strike of 1963, the New York Review of Books now has 115,000 subscribers. They recently celebrated their 35th anniversary. Check out their David Levine cartoon gallery.
  • Classics and Collections
• Powells.com Review a Day
  http://www.powells.com/review/
  Seven days a week Powell's sends a current review to your emailbox. As of 2/10/2006 their schedule of reviewers was as follows: Mondays: The Christian Science Monitor; Tuesdays: The Atlantic; Wednesdays: The New Republic; Thursdays: Esquire; Fridays: The Washington Post Book World; Saturdays: Powell's staff members; Sundays: The Times Literary Supplement (London).
• Publishers Weekly
  http://www.publishersweekly.com/
  "in-depth interviews with top authors, news of the entire industry, a bestseller list so hot that is is syndicated in over 600 newspapers, and early reviews of adult and childrens books (over 100 per issue)."
• Readerville
  http://www.readerville.com/
  A site for readers that features discussions, current events, reader groups, and links to current reviews at other sites.
• USA Today Books
  http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/front.htm
  exclusive stories and best seller lists.
• Washington Post Book World
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artsandliving/books/
  Includes the first chapters of select books reviewed by The Post and discussions about books.
• Yahoo! Literature Reviews
  Check here for new and additional sites.

International

• The BookPl@ce
  http://www.bookplace.co.uk/
  The BookPl@ce magazine from the UK. Features, reviews, new fiction, interviews, bestsellers, children, calendar and trade news. Learn what is happening across the Atlantic.
• Guardian Unlimited: Books: Reviews
  http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/
  This is a great site to see what the Brits are reading. Both the reviews and the letters are enlightening.
• London Review of Books
  http://www.lrb.co.uk/
  Selected articles from the current week's print edition as well as a subject guide to archived reviews.
• The Scotsman Books
  http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm
  Edinburgh, Scotland's online newspaper.
• Times Online: Books
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,923,00.html
  Current reviews and selections from London's Times and The Sunday Times