Book Reviews: Selected Resources: Print Sources - Retrospective
This guide will enable you to locate reviews of popular and/or scholarly books. Most popular books are reviewed within six months of publication. Scholarly books are often reviewed as late as two to five years after publication.
Last Updated: Jan 8, 2024 3:34 PM
Print Sources - Retrospective
- Current Book Review CitationsCall Number: Lockwood Reference Z 1035 A1 C86 (Index Area) 1976-1982Covers fiction and non-fiction in more than 1200 periodicals, including foreign language titles.
- National Library Service Cumulative Book Review IndexCall Number: Lockwood Reference Z 1035 A1 N35 1975 (Index Area)A cumulative index to reviews in Book Review Digest 1905-1974, Library Journal 1907-1974, Saturday Review 1924-1974 and Choice 1964-1974.
- New York Times Book ReviewCall Number: Annex Per AP 2 N65 1896-1981 [also: Lockwood Library Microform Area MicFilm AN256 .N52 1857--current]The Book Review is part of the Sunday Times and duplicates full reviews from the NYT.
- New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 1219 N4 (Index Area)Offers an author, title and genre access to the reviews that appeared in the New York Times Book Review.
- Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 1890-1899, with Supplementary Indexing, 1900-1922Call Number: Lockwood Reference AI 3 R39 (Index Area)Reviews are indexed under author or subject. Citations are followed by "Review". Covers 51 periodicals of general and literary topics.
- Poole 's Index to Periodical LiteratureCall Number: Lockwood Reference AI 3 P72 1938 (Index Area)Index to general periodical literature published in the U.S. and Great Britain . Reviews are listed under the subject of the book or under the person's name if the book is about a person. Covers the years 1802-1906.
- Popular Periodical IndexCall Number: Lockwood Reference AI 3 P76 (Index Area) 1973-90Indexes a small number of otherwise ignored popular periodicals. Look under the heading "Book Reviews".