# Book reviews and where to find them.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-and-where-to-find-them/554581>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-and-where-to-find-them/554581 "2010-09-21T21:56:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![HawksPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HawksPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HawksPath)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-and-where-to-find-them/554581/1 "2010-09-21T21:56:16Z")

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It’s easy to find a book review. Amazon is filled with fans writing reviews. It’s hard to find a good review.

What I’d really like is a place like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic only for books. Ideally the website would collect average ratings from published book reviews and provide links to the individual reviews.

Is there anything like this?

I’m currently reading and audiobooking my way through Time Magazine’s top 100 books, but would like to try some newer books and explore a few different genres.

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**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-and-where-to-find-them/554581/2 "2010-09-21T22:28:17Z")

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Hard to go wrong with [Goodreads](http://www.goodreads.com/). Lots of reviews, a range of opinion and it’s even got a [bunch of Dopers](http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/822.SDMB_Straight_Dope).