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I am failing this article because almost every source is unreliable. I would suggest that you spend some time familiarizing yourself with our reliable sources policy and then beginning your search for sources anew. Two places I would check: Google News and Lexis Nexis. A good local library will have access to Lexis Nexis.

This site does not discuss the release or promotion of the book. It is not a secondary source, as it seems to be an actual advertisement for the book. This is not a reliable source, which should be fact-checked and removed from the promotion of the book. We want to present as objective a view of the book as possible.

This source does not support the statement that the book was successful. More seriously, it is not a reliable source because it is a promotional site designed by the publisher, not a third-party source. This site should not be used to source any part of the article, yet it is used many times throughout the article.

This source does not support that the book has received good critical reviews. Barnes and Noble is a bookstore - it is therefore a commercial website. It does not list every review that a book has received or even a representative cross-section. To establish that the book received positive reviews, you need to either cite a review which states that fact or you need to amass a group of citations to several positive reviews.

This source is unreliable because it is a chat transcript. It is not edited or fact-checked. It is "published" by an unreliable site. I cannot even find basic information on the site about who runs it.

You cannot source B&N for reviews. You need to find the original publication and cite that. Usually B&N only publishes excerpts, so you are probably missing part of the review.

This is a blog and therefore not a reliable source. You might be able to make an argument to include it under WP:SPS, but considering the problems with the other sources in this article, I would advise you to exclude this.

The bulk of this article is plot summary and character description. I would dispense with the character list, integrating the essentials into the plot summary.

I hope these suggestions are helpful. I recently wrote a featured article on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a contemporary novel, using only newspaper stories and websites. While there are probably more articles on that particular book than on this one, it might give you a good idea regarding the kinds of sources we would expect in an article like this. Awadewit (talk) 23:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]