Q. How do I find a book review?

A book review is a type of article, some of which might be more acceptable than others depending on what your instructor requires. Book reviews are typically labeled as such, or are printed in a specific section of a periodical. 

A review found on a platform like Goodreads, however, is not an article but rather more of a "post" and likely would not count for your assignment, even though they are "reviewing" a work. 

Here's some tips to get you started: 

• If you know of a specific publication that offers book reviews (such as if your instructor told you to look there), you could search for that publication in the Discovery catalog to then search through it for reviews for a particular book or all reviews published in a certain timeframe, such as The New York Times Book Review. Select a database in the catalog result that comes up (such as in the example link) under "Access Online," based on the coverage (1985-01-06~present is listed on some for the NYTs Book Review, but not the default database as of 11/2023). To learn how to search within a publication for an article, see this FAQ. Sometimes using the terms "Book review" or the author name can help bring up a relevant result to a review for a book you are searching for; 
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• Sometimes Googling book reviews will get you to relevant content as well. Here's an example of a Google Advanced Search, searching through a specific publication for a topic (in this case, a book), where relevant results come up. If you run into a paywall, copy and paste the title of the article into the Discovery Catalog to see if we grant access or place an interlibrary loan request for the content: 
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The library has a research guide, Find a Book Review, which includes information on other ways to locate book reviews.