Books and Book Reviews
Find reviews and current
prices for books, plus much more.
Book
Stores and Book Prices:
Amazon
Books, Barnes
and Noble and Borders
Books & Music
Three large web stores for books. Amazon allows you to search the full
text of many books.
Schoenhof's
Large selection of foreign language books.
Powell's
Books
Huge Oregon bookstore with a large selection of new and used books. There
is also a Rare Book Room for locating rare volumes.
American
Booksellers Association Bookweb
A directory of bookstores worldwide. Also reviews and articles.
Association
of American University Presses
Search or browse for information about books published by 60+ university
presses.
Bookfinder |
FetchBook.Info
These both search several book websites at once to find new, used, rare,
or out of print books. As an aside, FetchBook.Info also offers personalized
reading recommendations through the Book Genome Project.
Book
Sale Finder
Find book sales held by libraries and other non-profit organizations
Book
Reviews and Book News:
BookWire
Provides access to a variety of book-related information on the Web,
including Publisher's Weekly bestsellers lists, the Boston Book Review,
the Quarterly Black Review of Books, and links to home pages for publishers
and booksellers.
The
New York Times Book Review
Web version of the print publication, plus a searchable database of all
their reviews since 1980. Requires free registration to use. Also from
the New York Times, First
Chapters, the text of first chapters from hundreds of fiction and
non-fiction books.
Baker
and Taylor's Academia
A monthly magazine of academic book titles and information. Includes
university bestsellers lists and subject bibliographies of recently published
books.
The Pulitzer
Prize, National Book
Award, and Booker Prize
Web sites for literary prizes, with their history and lists of past winners.
In the St. Kate's library, check
out several of our print periodicals for wide-ranging book reviews.
Booklist,
CSC Periodicals, library has v.66:no.1 (Sept. 01, 1969)-present.
Choice,
CSC Periodicals, library has v.1:no.1 (Mar. 1964)-present. Reviews for
academic libraries.
Library Journal, CSC Periodicals, library has v. 27, no. 2 (Jan. 1902)-present.
Publisher's
Weekly, CSC Periodicals, library has v.207:no.1
(Jan. 06, 1975)-present.
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