book review

noun

1. a critical description, evaluation, or analysis of a book, especially one published in a newspaper or magazine.
2. a section or page of a newspaper or magazine devoted to such material.

Other Words From

• book reviewer noun
• book reviewing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of book review¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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From Outside Online

Director Peter Bogdanovich wrote in the New York Times Book Review that John Wayne is “authoritative and thoroughly engaging.”

From The Daily Beast

In an interview with The New York Times Book Review, she was asked to “name one book that made you who you are today.”

From The Daily Beast

Charles McGrath is a former editor of The New York Times Book Review and before that deputy editor at The New Yorker.

From The Daily Beast

One big difference in the Book Review now compared to a decade ago is the presence on the bestseller list of e-books.

From The Daily Beast

The Book Review has done a good job of staying on top of things.

From The Daily Beast

The comparison of a review to a portrait fixes attention on one essential quality of a book-review.

From Project Gutenberg

His father came out and stretched in a wicker chair with the Times book-review section.

From Project Gutenberg

A book review (written by a woman) which I have at hand contains some generalizations which bear on the subject.

From Project Gutenberg

Such banquets are spread for the frugal, not one of whom would swap that immortal cook-book review for a dinner with Lucullus.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a book-review in it a few days ago that I—I liked very much.'

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• analysis
• appraisal
• article
• assessment
• column
• comment
• commentary
• criticism
• discussion
• essay
• evaluation
• inspection
• investigation
• judgment
• notice
• revision
• study