To find contemporary book reviews:
- Go to UC Library Search or another humanities or newspaper database.
- As a keyword search, enter the name of the author and, if applicable, the title of the novel.
- Narrow your results to the date of the book’s publication + a few years forward
- Narrow your results to “Reviews” or “Book Reviews" OR narrow your results to newspapers and magazines.
Example:
To find reviews of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse:
- Search for: “Virginia Woolf” AND “To the Lighthouse”
- Narrow to date range: 1927-1937
- Narrow results to “Reviews”.
- To evaluate more resource, remove "Reviews" limit and narrow to "Magazines" instead.
![image of search screen for book reviews](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/108004/images/Screen_Shot_2021-09-21_at_9.20.28_AM.png)
In UC Library Search, enter your keywords and date range.
![image of narrowing search results to Reviews](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/108004/images/Screen_Shot_2021-09-21_at_9.20.50_AM.png)
From the resulting list, narrow "Resource Type" to "Reviews."
In addition to searching UC Library Search, you can also do this process on the following databases: