Book Title: A Public Domain Anthology for Newbie Book Reviewers

Author: Robert Dixon-Kolar

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Book Description: Book review publications (Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) and social cataloguing websites (GoodReads, LibraryThing) categorize the books they review into genres. Fiction and Nonfiction are the broadest categories. The more specialized categories include Mystery, Children's Books, and Poetry. This public domain anthology includes a range of books in these various genres for novice critics to practice the reviewer's craft.

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Well-regarded book review publications (Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) and popular social cataloguing websites (GoodReads, LibraryThing) categorize the books they review into genres. Fiction and Nonfiction are the broadest categories. Specialized categories include Mysteries, Children’s Books, and Poetry. Of course, even these sub-genres of Fiction and Nonfiction go by different labels. For example, “Mystery” books at Kirkus Reviews are labeled Mystery and Detective. Publishers Weekly and GoodReads uses the label Mystery and Thriller. This public domain anthology, while open to expansion to include additional genres, such as science fiction or biography and memoir, provides a rich and varied collection of works for novice book critics to develop their skills as reviewers.

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Robert Dixon-Kolar

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A Public Domain Anthology for Newbie Book Reviewers Copyright © 2021 by Robert Dixon-Kolar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Literary companions, book reviews and guides

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Title
A Public Domain Anthology for Newbie Book Reviewers
Author
Robert Dixon-Kolar
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

A Public Domain Anthology for Newbie Book Reviewers Copyright © 2021 by Robert Dixon-Kolar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Robert Dixon-Kolar
Associate Professor of English
College of DuPage
Glen Ellyn, IL.

Primary Subject
Literary companions, book reviews and guides
Additional Subject(s)
Children’s and teenage book reviews and guides, Biography and non-fiction prose, Classic crime and mystery fiction