Comp II: Literature Review: Home

• Goodreads: Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads launched in January 2007.
• Library Journal Reviews
• Publishers Weekly
• New York Times Sunday Book Review
• NPR Book Reviews

Academic Search Premier is a really great source for finding book reviews from a wide variety of publications. Follow these steps to access book reviews: 

• Switch from the basic search to advanced search
• Enter the title of a book in quotation marks (such "Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks")
• Below the search boxes, go to Search Options
• Scroll down to Document Type and highlight Book Review. 
• Then click on the search button. 
• All of your search results will be book reviews!

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