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Question: Where can I find professional book reviews online?

I need to find book reviews on women’s rights books for my history project, and I cant find any legitimate websites! Help please!

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Answer by Elizabeth
You will find “legitimate” book reviews in the New York Times, the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers that are online. Other papers you could use would include the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. There are many others — even the local free weekly might have book reviews.

You’re likely to be able to find these reviews simply by doing a Google search of the title.

To find titles, you can look through Google. For instance, you might start with “Backlash” by Susan Faludi. Look that title up on Amazon.com and then look to see what other titles Amazon suggests when you scroll down the page. You can think look up those books, and by looking at the suggested titles for those books, you can easily come up with a list of ten to twelve feminist titles. Off the top of my head, I’m embarrassed to say, the only other title that comes to mind is the Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. Other femimist authors might include Katie Roiphe, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French, Andrea Dworkin, and there are many others.

Search the titles in Google, and click on results that come from large, well known metropolitan newspapers — or magazines such as the New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times Book Review, or the New York Review of Books.

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