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Two ways to quickly check the content of a book
One of the questions I get asked ALL the time is if there is any way to quickly check if a book has questionable content.
Whether you’re wondering if there is going to be bad behavior in a chapter book your child wants to read or if you want to see if the novel you’re seeing pop up all over Instagram has more swearing and sex than you’re interested in, lots of us want to be able to screen books before we pick up a copy or crack the cover.
There’s no book content rating system like there is for movies and television shows (which doesn’t bother me, since those are so subjective anyway), but I have two ways that I like to quickly check the content of a book before I hand it over to my girls or pick it up myself.
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The first is Common Sense Media . It’s the closest to a book content rating system I’ve seen for books and they cover most of the big name books (if it’s an obscure title, you’re probably out of luck). They also do movies and other media.
It gives a 1-5 rating for language, violence, sex, and drugs/alcohol, and positive role models.
For instance, here is what it looks like for the Junie B. Jones series .
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And you can click on any of them for specific examples of what’s in the book. It looks like this:
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And then there are reviews by real parents and kids.
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Again, it’s not a perfect system and you may disagree with the ratings and recommendations, but it’s a very quick way to see what’s included in a popular book before you pick it up.
My other favorite way to check the content of a book is the 1 and 2 star reviews on Amazon .
If there are vivid sex scenes or tons of swearing or bullying or anything else that might bother you as a reader, it’s most likely to show up in those 1 and 2 star reviews (you’ll also sometimes get to see the worst side of humanity in those 1 and 2 star reviews, so . . . just be prepared for that).
Obviously, both of these work better for popular books that have a lot of input from readers and parents, but they’re my most reliable ways to quickly check a book before I hand it over to my insatiable reader (Ella has read more 200 chapter books already this year . . . there is ZERO way I could pre-read everything before giving books to her)
There are two other things I want to mention about book content.
One, the more books you read, the better you’ll get at knowing intuitively if a book is going to be a good fit for you or not. I’m RARELY surprised when I pick up a book because the cover, the blurb, the “perfect for fans of . . . .” recommendations, and the first few pages give me a million signals about what kind of book it’s going to be. There are certainly exceptions, but the more I read, the more I can predict a book’s level of sex, swearing, or other content with reasonable accuracy.
Two, if you give your child a book that turns out to not fit your personal and family standards, it’s not the end of the world. It’s a great opportunity to have a conversation about why you don’t like to read books where siblings are really unkind to each other or books with a lot of bad language and how the media we consume affects us. You don’t have to just snatch the book away and forbid them to read it – eventually they’ll pick ALL their own books – but you can help them start to identify how to choose good books and when to put a book down, and those are valuable skills to learn.
If you have other great was to quickly check the content of a book, I’d love to hear!
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Reader Interactions
April 23, 2020 at 6:40 am
This is great! You can also use the Search feature to look for a keyword across all of a book’s Amazon reviews. After clicking “See all reviews,” I use the search bar to look for the words “sex,” or “language,” or whatever else I’m trying to check on. I’ve found that a lot of 4 and 5 star Amazon book reviews in the last couple years are starting to include this content advisory type of information. The reviews search bar is also super helpful if you need to screen for specific triggers, like “miscarriage” or “rape.” Thanks for all your great content, Janssen!
April 23, 2020 at 8:02 am
This is super helpful – thank you for sharing!
July 21, 2020 at 11:48 am
For (mostly) older books, I find the Reshelving Alexandria website (and their paid membership) very useful — the books in their database have extensive information and content considerations to help make decisions about books. https://reshelvingalexandria.com/ (No affiliation, just a user.)
September 6, 2020 at 11:50 pm
For myself, I have found that romance/sex is so subjective too. So most romance type books that I pick up I check on allaboutromance.com. They have a steam rating system that is pretty accurate. Now they don’t have everything, but a large selection of romance books (like my favorite Regency types) are on there.
And so true that as you read more you get better at choosing books you know will fit what you like to read.
October 20, 2020 at 11:45 am
Goodreads is a great place to check the 1 star ratings for content discussion also. It’s my go-to. Great post Janssen 😊💕
December 28, 2020 at 7:17 am
The Good and the Beautiful had a book list as well. There are some pretty in depth comments on content too
https://goodandbeautifulbooklist.com/
May 11, 2021 at 11:42 am
Bummed that they started charging for Common Sense. That was my go-to, but I can’t really justify $30/ year for it. Next time I’ll try Amazon! Thanks!
June 28, 2021 at 6:21 pm
PluggedIn.com also reviews books (and movies, TV, games, music, YouTube Channels, etc.) We’ve used it for years for movies, but just started using it for other things. It is based on a Christian World View, but even if that’s not your vibe, it’s a great place to learn content. It has spoilers, but I’m ok with that.
September 11, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Do you know about redeemed reader? GREAT reviews for content!
November 28, 2023 at 1:08 pm
I use Common Sense Media and Kirkus Reviews for quick reviews also. I find the last 2 or 3 sentences to be the most revealing information. Thanks for this post, really helpful! 🙂
November 30, 2023 at 2:22 am
Just now seeing this, and have used a very similar system for years. Most of the comments had additional helpful resources as well…I’ll throw my own hat in the ring here: https://screenitfirst.com is a fairly new site to add to the mix. My husband and I launched this about 5 months ago — it’s not perfect, but it’s a simple and easy-to-use system that removes the subjective nature of most book review sites. It’s community sourced… so if you see something you want to share just crack open the cover and send us a snapshot — our moderators approve 99% of all submissions.
Thanks for the great post, I hope you’ll consider including Screen It First in this or a future post.
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Following her 2016 debut, “ Behold the Dreamers ,” Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating second novel begins in 1980 in the fictional African village of Kosawa, where representatives from an American oil company have come to meet with the locals, whose children are dying because of the environmental havoc (fallow fields, poisoned water) wreaked by its drilling and pipelines. This decades-spanning fable of power and corruption turns out to be something much less clear-cut than the familiar David-and-Goliath tale of a sociopathic corporation and the lives it steamrolls. Through the eyes of Kosawa’s citizens young and old, Mbue constructs a nuanced exploration of self-interest, of what it means to want in the age of capitalism and colonialism — these machines of malicious, insatiable wanting.
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Riverhead Books. $26. | Read our review | Read our profile of Kitamura
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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“The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” the first novel by Jeffers, a celebrated poet, is many things at once: a moving coming-of-age saga, an examination of race and an excavation of American history. It cuts back and forth between the tale of Ailey Pearl Garfield, a Black girl growing up at the end of the 20th century, and the “songs” of her ancestors, Native Americans and enslaved African Americans who lived through the formation of the United States. As their stories converge, “Love Songs” creates an unforgettable portrait of Black life that reveals how the past still reverberates today.
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No One Is Talking About This
By patricia lockwood.
Lockwood first found acclaim as a poet on the internet, with gloriously inventive and ribald verse — sexts elevated to virtuosity. In “ Priestdaddy ,” her indelible 2017 memoir about growing up in rectories across the Midwest presided over by her gun-loving, guitar-playing father, a Catholic priest, she called tweeting “an art form, like sculpture, or honking the national anthem under your armpit.” Here, in her first novel, she distills the pleasures and deprivations of life split between online and flesh-and-blood interactions, transfiguring the dissonance into art. The result is a book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, hilarious and, eventually, deeply moving.
Riverhead Books. $25. | Read our review | Read our profile of Lockwood
When We Cease to Understand the World
By benjamín labatut. translated by adrian nathan west..
Labatut expertly stitches together the stories of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers to explore both the ecstasy and agony of scientific breakthroughs: their immense gains for society as well as their steep human costs. His journey to the outermost edges of knowledge — guided by the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck , the physicist Werner Heisenberg and the chemist Fritz Haber , among others — offers glimpses of a universe with limitless potential underlying the observable world, a “dark nucleus at the heart of things” that some of its witnesses decide is better left alone. This extraordinary hybrid of fiction and nonfiction also provokes the frisson of an extended true-or-false test: The further we read, the blurrier the line gets between fact and fabulism.
New York Review Books. Paper, $17.95. | Read our review
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
By tove ditlevsen. translated by tiina nunnally and michael favala goldman..
Ditlevsen’s gorgeous memoirs, first published in Denmark in the 1960s and ’70s and collected here in a single volume, detail her hardscrabble upbringing, career path and merciless addictions: a powerful account of the struggle to reconcile art and life. She joined the working ranks at 14, became a renowned poet by her early 20s, and found herself, after two failed marriages, wedded to a psychopathic doctor and hopelessly dependent on opioids by her 30s. Yet for all the dramatic twists of her life, these books together project a stunning clarity, humor and candidness, casting light not just on the world’s harsh realities but on the inexplicable impulses of our secret selves.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. | Read our review
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America
By clint smith.
For this timely and thought-provoking book, Smith, a poet and journalist, toured sites key to the history of slavery and its present-day legacy, including Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello; Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary; and a Confederate cemetery. Interspersing interviews with the tourists, guides, activists and local historians he meets along the way with close readings of scholarship and poignant personal reflection, Smith holds up a mirror to America’s fraught relationship with its past, capturing a potent mixture of good intentions, earnest corrective, willful ignorance and blatant distortion.
Little, Brown & Company. $29. | Read our review | Listen to Smith on the podcast
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
By andrea elliott.
To expand on her acclaimed 2013 series for The Times about Dasani Coates, a homeless New York schoolgirl, and her family, Elliott spent years following her subjects in their daily lives, through shelters, schools, courtrooms and welfare offices. The book she has produced — intimately reported, elegantly written and suffused with the fierce love and savvy observations of Dasani and her mother — is a searing account of one family’s struggle with poverty, homelessness and addiction in a city and country that have failed to address these issues with efficacy or compassion.
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On Juneteenth
By annette gordon-reed.
This book weaves together history and memoir into a short volume that is insightful, touching and courageous. Exploring the racial and social complexities of Texas, her home state, Gordon-Reed asks readers to step back from the current heated debates and take a more nuanced look at history and the surprises it can offer. Such a perspective comes easy to her because she was a part of history — the first Black child to integrate her East Texas school. On several occasions, she found herself shunned by whites and Blacks alike, learning at an early age that breaking the color line can be threatening to both races.
Liveright Publishing. $15.95. | Read our review | Listen to Gordon-Reed on the podcast
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By heather clark.
It’s daring to undertake a new biography of Plath, whose life, and death by suicide at 30 in 1963, have been thoroughly picked over by scholars. Yet this meticulously researched and, at more than 1,000 pages, unexpectedly riveting portrait is a monumental achievement. Determined to rescue the poet from posthumous caricature as a doomed madwoman and “reposition her as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century,” Clark, a professor of poetry in England, delivers a transporting account of a rare literary talent and the familial and intellectual milieu that both thwarted and encouraged her, enlivened throughout by quotations from Plath’s letters, diaries, poetry and prose.
Alfred A. Knopf. $40. | Read our review
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Book lovers, stop us if you’ve heard this one before: you’ve just finished a mind-blowing book and you need to hear some discussion about it. What do you do? Dive straight into the limitless realm of the Internet and search for book review sites, of course.
Or here’s another scenario: you’ve finished reading a novel and now you’re searching for something to fill the void. Maybe you want more of the same, or maybe something completely different to switch things up. You’ll probably also scour the Internet for ratings and trustworthy recommendations.
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It’s impossible not to mention Goodreads when discussing book communities: it’s the Facebook of book reviews — the ultimate social media platform for bibliophiles. If you’ve somehow managed to go this long without stumbling upon this omnipresent site, here’s the run-down: you can use Goodreads to organize, display, and discuss your virtual bookshelf with other users.
Goodreads recommendations are based on your listed interests. You can follow authors and book influencers ranging from Celeste Ng to Bill Gates . This allows you to see all their reviews, which vary from compact one-liners to critical analysis, and watch the new reviews roll in. For a quick verdict, just take a look at the star rating that they give the book.
Also if you like to browse lists, Goodreads compiles the best and most popular books for every genre. There’s also the annual Goodreads’ Choice Awards to celebrate each year’s new releases, where you can cast your vote or peruse the list of contenders to find a new book to read. It’s a site for every kind of reader, with abundant ways to comment and interact.
2. LibraryThing
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This is the OG of all online book catalogues and discussion boards — take a look and you’ll see that it’s an oldie but a goodie. Of course, the basic functions of LibraryThing are rather similar to Goodreads: there are millions of books that readers can add to their lists, as well as review with star ratings.
While the interface harks back to the earlier days of the world wide web, LibraryThing has a secret weapon that’ll appeal to all readers, especially modern ones: their Zeitgeist . This page displays the latest crème de la crème of the whole site, from the most popular books to the hottest reviews , which you can also write with the help of a good book review template . Just a glance shows that the readers here know how to read between the lines and wield their words!
So if you’re hoping to read or share some in-depth literary thoughts with fellow sharp-minded users , LibraryThing is the site to browse. (You can even access it without creating an account!)
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Now, if you’re searching for some hidden gems to peruse, Reedsy Discovery ’s got your back. While our blog features everything from classics to contemporary hits, Discovery’s specialty is indie publications, many of which are accompanied with succinct comments from experienced reviewers . There’s no better way to broaden your horizon!
Moreover, if casual and creative reviews are more your cup of tea, then rejoice: the burgeoning community of readers on Discovery can leave comments, one-line reviews, and video reviews (calling all Booktubers!) on just about any book. It’s a fun and interactive way to geek out over your favorite reads and discover all the coolest new titles you won’t find anywhere else.
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Though it’s UK-based, this prolific site caters to audiences around the world. LoveReading is strictly a reviewing site, with a base of staff writers and carefully selected contributors, so you know the reviews are top-notch. The staff often give quite personal reading experiences in their reviews, which make their recommendations very endearing, like they’re from a close friend. They even offer you presents — well, if you think of giveaways as presents!
LoveReading covers books from every genre you can think of. They also have weekly, monthly, and yearly list features to keep you up to date with the latest stellar releases, so you’ll never be in want of something to pore over.
5. The Millions
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In search of reviews that really dive into the themes, metaphors, and overall executions of interesting and highbrow books? The Millions has got you covered.
Written by a collection of seasoned critics, these reviews are speckled with memorable quotes, elegant analysis, and plentiful comparisons to other works — which means extra reading recommendations for you! If contemporary and literary fictions are your go-tos, then The Millions is the site for all your lit nerd needs.
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Those who think quantity and quality don’t go hand in hand, you clearly haven’t encountered SFBook Review . The five reviewers on the team here share two common and important goals: firstly, to follow the outpour of new titles in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres every year, and secondly, to give thoughtful reviews to as many of them as possible.
This team knows their SFF niches inside out, so their verdicts are very credible. Still, their reviews are quite friendly and personal — they discuss other related books and share their reading experiences to help you make your own reading choices.
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Bookpage features all kinds of genres: from children’s books to nonfiction, from the works of household names to debut authors, and so much more. Their format is neat and straightforward — they bring you the volumes they think are most worthwhile, recommending them to you by summarizing and concisely commenting on the prose, the theme, and the plot of each chosen book.
In addition to this, Bookpage also features author interviews and articles that unearth the deeper themes and purposes of certain books. If you’re a true book lover seeking like-minded literary aficionados, this may be the perfect place for you.
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Avid readers, you’ve probably stumbled upon Book Riot more times than you can remember. While it’s not a site that individually assesses titles, it has lists for everything — from timeless literary giants to the top books in each genre. What’s more, Book Riot has lots of thinkpieces that dive deep into the way certain titles make readers feel — be it exhilarated, motivated, or enraged — and that’s really all you need to know when deciding to embark on a new reading adventure.
Additionally, if you’d rather listen to discussions and reviews rather than read them, you'll be happy to know that Book Riot has a range of podcasts for you to choose from.
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NetGalley is another platform bringing you new and unconventional recommendations. They specialize in connecting authors who are publishing to readers who’d like to preview and put in their two cents. While the database of books available here are not the most expansive, those that are featured are certainly worth your time.
Readers can benefit most from NetGalley via their book recommendation site, Bookish , where the staff reviewers update you with their recent reads and in-depth thoughts on those reads. Along with that, Bookish also has book club kits, equipped with comprehension questions and discussion points, to help readers explore stories mindfully.
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While it’s very similar to Goodreads, BookBub focuses more on connecting readers to books that might suit them specifically — which is partly why you’ll see plenty of bargains and deals promoted on the site.
Because of this promotional value, BookBub has quite a strong author community. Diana Gabaldon and Gillian Flynn , for instance, are constantly recommending books on their accounts. So if you’d like to tag along with your favorite author, this is an excellent website to visit. The only drawback of BookBub is that they only have community reviews from users based in the US, and you have to sign up in order to read them.
With these ten sites, you’ll be sure to find your little community of fellow book lovers regardless of what your interests are. Here’s to exciting TBR lists and nourished minds!
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