Welcome to ReviewsOfBooks.com!
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Welcome to your one stop for professional reviews of books. What we've attempted to accomplish here is to collect book reviews from major online media sites that are available without having to register at a site or pay to read them. We're not interested in just a short blurb or small section of someone else's review. We try to find full-length reviews of books that help the reader gather the information they seek to determine if the book is worth their time. We prefer reviews that deal with each book at length, but sometimes settle for smaller reviews when lengthier ones are unavailable. For each book listed here, we try to find at least three reviews on different web sites. This way you can read as many of them as you'd like before deciding on a book. We also write our own book reviews. An Editor's Pick logo is also applied to any book we've read and enjoyed. The lack of this logo for any book usually just means we haven't read the book.
We've organized the site into a few different sections. There are five principal pages, typically used for browsing through recent additions. Think of these pages like wandering through a bookstore to see what's new. The most recent fiction is added to this page, and as new ones are added, the books from the bottom of this page are moved to Page 2. We also add listings for fiction released in the UK, mysteries and thrillers, and nonfiction. Every book added to these pages also gets an individual page where all the reviews can be found (the principal pages list only the first four). These individual pages also usually have a synopsis for the book and sometimes they also have links for other books by that author. Clicking on the [see all reviews and synopsis] link in any book's listing on a principal page will take you to that book's individual page.
Books that are no longer available on the principal pages still have their individual page available. There are two ways to locate any book we might have on this site. A search box is available in the upper right corner of every page, and entering your search terms into the form will help you find all occurrences of those search terms on this site. In addition, a Site Map link is in the upper left corner of each page. It lists alphabetically by title all the books we have on this site.
Note that this site was launched in June 2002 and we have only a few books released in the months before that time. Reviews for books older than that won't be found on this site. It's not possible to include every newly released book on this site. The minimum requirement is that any book has to have three reviews in major online media web sites and then it's a completely subjective process as to which books get added to this site. Some of the books we choose are popular, others are literary, and some are a bit out of the ordinary, but intriguing to us. We're always interested in books our visitors suggest, so if there's a recent book that you'd like to see added to the site, send us an e-mail at books@reviewsofbooks.com. If you're interested in having your own book added or reviewed on this site, please see our review policy. Be aware that many of the links we add to reviews on other web sites often go stale as they're either deleted or moved to an archive on those sites. We're constantly testing links to find these dead links, but if you encounter one, or find any type of error on this site, please send a quick e-mail to admin@reviewsofbooks.com.
This site is an amazon associate site. That means that for any items purchased from amazon via links on this site, we receive a small commission of that sale. Your amazon orders placed through this site will help with our continuing support. One quick note about ordering - clicking on the "Buy from amazon.com" button just below a price will add that item directly to your shopping cart at amazon.com. Items can be deleted from your cart at amazon.com anytime before you check out and place your order. Note: Kindle versions of books do not qualify for commissions under amazon.com's associate program. If you'd like to support this site, we ask that you buy a non-Kindle version of the books listed on our site.
