Online Reference Resources
Book and Entertainment Reviews

• 33 Rebellions per Minute--Brian Block's page of music reviews
• AskSam -- Searchable database of full-text book, speeches, transcripts and more. From DaVinci's Notebooks to the confirmation hearings of John Roberts, who is now the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Baen Free Library -- Sci-fi titles full-text online.
• Black Issues -- African American book reviewers "devoted to covering both fiction and nonfiction books written by black authors."
• BookBrowser--has all kinds of useful book info--reading lists, by genre, author, series, sequels, or Oprah; an "If You Like This, You Should Like These" file, and a set of about 1500 book reviews.
• Book Reviews--Yahoo's index.
• Booksense.com--an independent bookstore site that has reviews and recommendations and allows you to shop the independent bookstore nearest to you online. An antidote to the massive book merchandisers.
• Books in Depth  -- reviews in selected journals and newspapers
• ChapterOne--courtesy of the Washington Post. See or search for the available first chapters of over 130 current fiction and non-fiction titles, updated weekly. Don't just take a reviewer's word for it--try it out.
• Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature--includes complete winner lists of all kinds of awards, with a keyword search for subject matter, and a forms search to generate reading lists for specific grade levels, ethnic or gender of protagonists, genre, historical period, or other parameters
• Dr. Dobbs' Electronic Reviews of Computer Books 1990 - 2004
• DVD reviews
• Free Audio Books -- only books that are in the public domain, read by volunteers.
• Iowa Literary Landscape -- a bibliography of  both adult and children's fiction set in Iowa. Alphabetical by author.
• Movie Review Glossary
• Movie Reviews--Yahoo's index.
• Music Reviews--Yahoo's index.
• National Book Critics Circle -- list of useful book and criticism sites from newspaper, magazine and online publications. The Circle also awards the National Book Awards for fiction, non-fiction, autobiography and criticism.
• New York Review of Books--eventually this site will contain the complete archive, and will cost money. But for right now you can see this year's back issues for free.
• New York Times Book Reviews-text of NYTBR, plus search all book reviews since 1980. Registration required.
• New York Times Film Reviews -- arranged by genre, date, country of origin, title and critic.
• Online Descriptions of Computer Books
• Rough Guides to Music--an online reference manual, complete with discographies and criticism, of rock music, reggae, opera, jazz, classical, and world music
• the Scoop-- Reviews currently released children's books. Also includes interviews with authors and illustrators, an "interactive reading adventure", and more.
• Top Ten Daily -- the top ten most sold books by type each day from Barnes and Noble. It's not only the new!!