• English-language reviews

• Foreign-language reviews

• General Literary sites Book and Periodical Collections

• Publishers Publishers' sites in the US, UK, and elsewhere.

• Print media sources ( explanation of categories)

• Major - fully, freely accessible (3)

• Secondary - fully, freely accessible (23)

• Other - current, but limited archive (16)

• Major - registration required - (18)

 

• Web-based sources

• General interest  (59)

• Genre and special interest  (49) (categories: Film, International, Law, Mysteries, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction and fantasy, Science and Technology, Serious non-fiction, Special Interests)

   

• Foreign-language reviews review sites -- reviews in other languages

• Secondary

• Austin Chronicle

• Bookforum

• BookPage

• Boston Phoenix

• Boston Review

• City Pages

• The Columbia Spectator

• Context

• Detroit Free Press

• The Harvard Book Review

• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

• The Missouri Review

• National Review

• The Onion

• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• Rain Taxi

• Review of Contemporary Fiction

• scotsman.com

• The Star Tribune

• The Stranger

• The Village Voice

•  Voice Literary Supplement

• Yale Review of Books

• Boston Globe

• Chicago Sun-Times

• Christian Science Monitor

• Denver Post

• Houston Chronicle

• Maclean's

• The New Yorker

•  Briefly Noted

• Newsday

• The Seattle Times

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• Stuff

• Sunday Times

• The Times

• USA Today

• The Washington Times

• The Atlantic Monthly Few reviews, but good archive and literary articles and interviews

• The Economist Older articles accessible, good archive, interesting selection of books.

• Entertainment Weekly Freely accessible on AOL, but otherwise not. Popular stuff, short reviews.

• Financial Times Book section with a few reviews every Friday, access requires registration.

• Kirkus Reviews Except for a few featured reviews in every issue only accessible to subscribers.

• London Review of Books Excellent articles, though relatively.

• The Los Angeles Times Good reviews, content again freely (if registration-required) accessible.

• The New Republic Good archive, interesting long reviews -- must subscribe.

• New Statesman Interesting reviews. But essentially entirely pay-per-view now.

• The New York Review of Books Excellent clear, simple site design.

• The New York Times Once by far the best book review archive on the web, register cookies.

• The Philadelphia Inquirer Good coverage of new US publications.

• Salon Reviews, and articles about books. Very good archive. Pay -- or endure an ad-show.

• Sydney Morning Herald Good book coverage.

• Telegraph Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Good review and archive. Register can use fake e-mail.

• TLS The marvelous Times Literary Supplement -- an invaluable publication, register and pay.

• The Washington Post Good coverage, requires enabled cookies, but can submit invented user-data.

• Film:

• Bright Lights Film Journal. Film-related titles.

  
   
• International:

• Asia Times. Decent coverage, Asian focus.

• The Asian Review of Books. International titles of particular interest to readers in Asia.

• Australian Book Review. Limited number of reviews from journal available online.

• Babelguides. World literature in English translation, with a comprehensive  1000+ reviews.

• Biblio: A Review of Books. India's leading literary magazine. SE Asian books,  requires registration

• Canadian Literature. Canadian focus.

• Daily Mail & Guardian. South African. Small.

• Ha'aretz. Israeli, limited coverage of new titles.

• The Hindu. Contemporary Indian literature and reviews of regional-language books.

• Japan Review Net. "An independent site for books on Japan." Limited number of reviews.

• Japan Visitor. Brief reviews of Japan-related titles -- unfortunately bunched together.

• Outlook India. Good general coverage.

• Swedish Book Review. Interesting but limited general coverage, in English

• World Literature Today. Premier international and translated literature.

• Law:

• FindLaw. Good reviews of law-related texts.

• The Law and Politics Book Review. Good reviews of legal and political titles.

   
• Mysteries:

• Crime Time. British, focus on crime/mystery.

• Mystery Reader. A good site for reviews about mystery and suspense books, and thrillers.

• New Mystery Reader Magazine. Decent mystery coverage.

• Tangled Web. Ca. 1000 reviews. Annoying frames, but good coverage.

   
• Poetry:

• The "Constant Critic". "tri-weekly poetry reviews".

• Contemporary Poetry Review. "Resuscitating poetry criticism". Only ca. 100 revs.

• Poetic Voices. Fairly small, decent coverage.

• Verse magazine's webspace. Blog format less than ideal, but good coverage.

   
• Romance:

• The Romance Reader. Good coverage of romance books. Over 5000 reviews.

• A Romance Review. "Where Love Rules and Romance Rocks!!!!!!" Over 4000 reviews.
   

• Science fiction and fantasy:

• The Alien Online. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror focus.

• Science Fiction Weekly. Good science fiction coverage

• sffworld.com. Good coverage of science fiction and fantasy.

• SFReader.com. Reviews of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels.

• Susan Stepney. Decent selection.
   

• Science and Technology/Maths/Computers:

• American Scientist. Good science coverage, awkward archive.

• Human Nature Review. Everything to do with human nature, with academic/scientific focus.

• Read This! MAA (Mathematical Association of America reviews Math-related titles.

• Slashdot. Technology-oriented, usefully include extensive reader comments.

• Susan Stepney. Non-fiction -- mainly science -- reviews, good selection.

• Technology and Society. Good coverage of books related to technology and society.
   

• Serious non-fiction:

• Claremont Review of Books. Cutting-edge arguments for a new, reinvigorated conservatism".

• Foreign Affairs. Reviews of books on international affairs.

• ForeWord. Non-fiction focus.

• H-Net Reviews. Excellent coverage of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences.

   
• Special Interest

• Black Issues Book Review. Afro-American, popular.

• Books & Culture At Christianity Today; limited focus, decent reviews.

• Bryn Mawr Classical Review Rurrent scholarly work in the field of classical studies.

• Diva Tribe Women's Fiction - Book Reviews for Women at DivaTribe". Small selection.

• Dragonfly Review A monthly section  newly released literary nonfiction for healthy living, spiritual growth, social justice and the environment.

• Esoterica.Texts and scholarly

• Review of Biblical Literature Extensive coverage of books biblical studies and related fields.

• International Book Review Sites

• Dutch

• Het Parool. Dutch newspaper.

• De Standaard. Dutch-language newspaper.

• Italy

• The Blog Review of Books. Good, broad general coverage.

• La Repubblica. Good coverage.

• La Stampa. Good coverage.

• Japan

• GLOCOM Platform. Japanese Institute of Global Communications, Japanese issues, non-fiction.

• Scandinavian

• Aftonbladet. Swedish. Good archive.

• Dagbladet. Norwegian.

• dagensbok.com. Swedish.

• Helsingin Sandomant. Finnish.

• Politiken. Danish.

• Svenska Dagbladet review archive. Swedish. Good archive and coverage.

• Swedish Book Review. Interesting general coverage, in English