Over the years, the reviews here at LitReaderNotes have piled up. Unfortunately the internal site’s search function is less than reliable. In the interest of finding reviews of today’s great reads and yesterday classics, you can find all the reviews available on the site listed below. Reviews are listed in order of publication on this site (most recent at the top). This index is formatted: title and parenthetical date of publication (hyperlinked to the review), author, {genre}.

Beowulf: A New Translation (2020) Maria Dahvana Headley {poetry, translation}
My Murder: A Novel (2023) Katie Williams {fiction}
Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) Shelby Van Pelt {fiction}
What You Are Looking For is in the Library (2020, Eng. trans. 2023) Michiko Aoyama {fiction}
The Anxious Generation (2024) Jonathan Haidt {nonfiction}
So Late in the Day (2023) and Foster (2010, 2022) Claire Keegan {fiction}
Excellent Women (1952) Barbara Pym {fiction}
Lessons in Chemistry (2022) Bonnie Garmus {fiction}
The Fell (2021) Sarah Moss {fiction}
Damnation Spring (2021) Ash Davidson {fiction}
Home (2008) Marilynne Robinson {fiction}
Gardens in the Dunes (1999) Leslie Marmon Silko {fiction}
Wellness (2023) Nathan Hill {fiction}
War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstoy {fiction}
Love Warrior (2013) and Untamed (2020) Glennon Doyle {memoir, nonfiction}
The Summer Book (1978) Tove Jansson {fiction}
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) Ocean Vuong {fiction}
The Covenant of Water (2023) Abraham Verghese {fiction}
When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) Benjamín Labatut {fiction/non-fiction}
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (2023) Claire Dederer {non-fiction}
Barkskins (2016) Annie Proulx {fiction}
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) & Jane Eyre (1847) Jean Rhys and Charlotte Brontë {fiction}
Trust (2022) Hernan Diaz {fiction}
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea (2023) Debra Magpie Earling {fiction}
Demon Copperhead (2022) Barbara Kingsolver {fiction}
Perma Red (2022) Debra Magpie Earling {fiction}
Valentino and Sagittarius (2020) Natalia Ginzburg, trans. by Avril Bardino {fiction}
The Lincoln Highway (2021) Amor Towles {fiction}
Horse (2022) Geraldine Brooks {fiction}
Ghost Wall (2018) and Summerwater (2020) Sarah Moss {fiction}
Lucy Barton Novels: My Name is Lucy Barton (2016), Oh William! (2021), and Lucy By The Sea (2022) Elizabeth Strout {fiction series}
The Marriage Portrait (2022) Maggie O’Farrell {historical fiction}
The Wordhord (2022) Hana Videen {nonfiction}
Babel: An Arcane History (2022) R. F. Kuang {fiction}
The Fortnight in September (1931) R. C. Sherriff {fiction}
To The Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf {fiction, classic}
Treacle Walker (2021) Alan Garner{fiction}
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018) Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff {nonfiction}
And Yet: Poems (2022) Kate Baer {poetry}
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (2012) Terry Tempest Williams {nonfiction}
The Seedkeeper (2022) Diane Wilson {fiction}
The Lowering of Days (2021) Gregory Brown {fiction}
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) (2020) Barbara Kingsolver {poetry}
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Zora Neale Hurston {fiction, classic}
Gilead (2004) Marilynne Robinson {fiction}
A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) Amor Towles {fiction}
Throne of Glass Series (2012-2018) Sarah J Maas {fiction}
The Sorrow Stone (2022) Kári Gíslason {fiction}
To The Bright Edge of the World (2016) Eowyn Ivey {fiction}
Bewilderment (2021) Richard Powers {fiction}
Learwife (2021) J. R. Thorp{fiction}
At the Edge of the Orchard (2016) Tracy Chevalier {fiction}
West With The Night (1947) Beryl Markham {nonfiction}
Out Front the Following Sea (2022) Leah Angstman {fiction}
Emily of New Moon Trilogy (1923-27) L. M. Montgomery {fiction, classic}
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) Betty Smith {fiction, classic}
A Ghost in the Throat (2020) Doireann Ní Ghríofa {nonfiction}
Small Things Like These (2021) Claire Keegan {fiction}
The Island of the Missing Trees (2021) Elif Shafak {fiction}
Still Life (2021) Sarah Winman {fiction}
Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) Anthony Doerr {fiction}
The Thirteenth Tale (2006) Diane Setterfield {fiction}
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015) Elizabeth Gilbert {nonfiction}
A Court of Thorns and Roses Series (2015-present) Sarah J Maas {fiction}
The Big Sky (1947) & The Way West (1949) A. B. Gutherie Jr. {fiction, classic}
Library at the Edge of the World (2016) & the Finfarran Penninsula Series Felicity Hayes-McCoy {fiction}
The Metal Heart: A Novel of WWII (2021) Caroline Lea {fiction}
Plain Bad Heroines (2021) Emily Danforth {fiction}
She Never Told Me About the Ocean (2021) Elizabeth Sharp McKetta {fiction}
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (1841) Charles Dickens {fiction, classic}
Dearly: New Poems (2020) Margaret Atwood {poetry}
NORA: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce (2021) Nuala O'Connor {fiction}
She Had Some Horses (1983, 2008) Joy Harjo {poetry}
Victoria's War (2020) Catherine A. Hamilton {historical fiction}
Angel of Greenwood (2021) Randi Pink {YA historical fiction}
Be Holding (2020)Ross Gay {poetry}
Ida B The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B Wells (2021) Michelle Duster {nonfiction}
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (2019) Kim Michele Richardson {historical fiction}
The Underground Railroad (2017) Colson Whitehead {historical fiction}
The Hate You Give (2017) Angie Thomas {YA fiction}
Hillbilly Elegy (2016) J. D. Vance {nonfiction, memoir}
A Place For Us (2018) Fatima Farheen Mirza {fiction}
The Once and Future Witches (2020) Alix E. Harrow {fiction}
Alice Hoffman's Magical Books: Magical Lessons (2020), Rules of Magic (2017), and Practical Magic (1995) Alice Hoffman {fiction}
I Capture the Castle (1948) Dodie Smith {fiction, classic}
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987) Fannie Flagg {fiction}
Humankind: A Hopeful History (2019, English trans. 2020) Rutger Bregman {nonfiction}
Intimations (2020) Zadie Smith {nonfiction, essays}
Stoner (1965) John Williams {fiction, classic}
Lanny (2019) Max Porter {fiction}
The Fruit of the Drunken Tree (2018) Ingrid Rojas Contreras {fiction}
Desperate Remedies (1871) Thomas Hardy {fiction, classic}
The Henna Artist (2020) Alka Joshi {historical fiction}
The Book of Longings (2020) Sue Monk Kidd {historical fiction}
The Wright Sister (2020) Patty Dann {historical fiction}
Hamnet (2020) Maggie O'Farrell {historical fiction}
The Song of Achilles (2012) Madeline Miller {historical fiction}
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) Willa Cather{fiction, classic}
A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Thomas Hardy {fiction, classic}
Red at the Bone (2019) Jacqueline Woodson {fiction}
Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) Kurt Vonnegut {fiction, classic}
Agnes Grey (1848) Anne Brontë {fiction, classic}
Blindness (1995, English trans. 1997) José Saramago {fiction}
The Overstory (2018) Richard Powers {fiction}
You Never Forget Your First (2020) Alexis Coe {nonfiction, biography}
The Agony and The Ecstacy (1961) Irving Stone {fiction}
The Mercies (2020) Kiran Millwood Hargrave {historical fiction}
The Little Paris Bookshop (2013) Nina George {fiction}
Americanah (2013) Chimamanda Ngozi Adich {fiction}
The Joy Luck Club (1990) Amy Tan {fiction}
The Far Field (2019) Madhuri Vijay {fiction}
The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London {fiction, classic}
When Breath Becomes Air (2016) Paul Kalanithi {nonfiction, memoir}
The Snow Child (2012) Eowyn Ivey {fiction}
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (2015) Michael McCarthy {nonfiction}
Lavender Farming: Notes From a Hard Row Hoed (2019) Lavender Lori Parr {nonfiction}
The Water Dancer (2019) Ta Nehisi Coates {fiction}
The Great Believers (2018) Rebecca Makkai {historical fiction}
Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) Delia Owens {fiction}
Eleanor Olephant is Completely Fine (2017) Gayle Honeyman {fiction}
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (2016) Timothy Egan {nonfiction}
A Woman is No Man (2019) Etaf Rum {fiction}
Winter Wheat (1944) Mildred Walker {fiction, classic}
Jitterbug Bug Perfume (1984) Tom Robbins {fiction}
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-22) Sigrid Undset {fiction, classic}
All Joy No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting (2014) Jennifer Senior {nonfiction}
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (2018) Mona Hanna-Attisha {nonfiction}
The Cassandra (2019) Sharma Shields {fiction}
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction (2005) Meghan Cox Gurdon {nonfiction}
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) Milan Kundera {fiction, classic}
The Giver Quartet (1993-2012) Lois Lowry {middle grades fiction, classic}
The Good News About Bad Behavior (2018) Katherine Reynolds Lewis {nonfiction}
Go Set a Watchman (2015) Harper Lee {fiction}
Once Upon a River (2018) Diane Setterfield {fiction}
Letters From Yellowstone (1999) Diane Smith {fiction}
The Puritans and Whalers: Reading Coastal Maine Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables & Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife {nonfiction, fiction}
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (2015) Mary Norris {nonfiction}
Aloha Hawaii Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes (2011); Queen Liliuokalani The Story of Hawaii by Hawaii's Queen (1898); Mark Twain Letters from Hawaii (1947) {nonfiction}
A Literary Tea Party (2018) Alison Walsh {nonfiction, cookbook}
Circe (2018) Madeline Miller {fiction}
The Library Book (2018) Susan Orlean {nonfiction}