Books reviewed by Lisa Butts at BookBrowse.

Lisa Butts

Lisa Butts is a poet and freelance critic living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied Creative Writing at The New School and Sarah-Lawrence College and, in addition to writing for BookBrowse, writes regularly for Publishers Weekly and BookRags, among others.

Books reviewed by Lisa Butts

Mad Eden (07/15/26)
The Hill (05/06/26)
Brawler (02/25/26)
Wuthering Heights (01/28/26)
Everything for Everyone (11/05/25)
Pick a Color (10/22/25)
Will There Ever Be Another You (09/24/25)
Sweetener (08/27/25)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (07/16/25)
Hot Girls with Balls (07/02/25)
These Heathens (06/18/25)
Sky Daddy (04/09/25)
The Price of Salt, or Carol (01/29/25)
The Sisters K (11/20/24)
Women's Hotel (10/16/24)
Rejection (09/18/24)
The Most (08/21/24)
We Refuse (06/19/24)
All Fours (05/15/24)
James (04/17/24)
Say Hello to My Little Friend (03/20/24)
The Liberators (01/24/24)
Where There Was Fire (10/04/23)
Ghost Girl, Banana (06/07/23)
Biography of X (04/05/23)
How Far the Light Reaches (01/04/23)
The Birdcatcher (10/19/22)
Perish (09/07/22)
Nightcrawling (09/07/22)
Night of the Living Rez (07/13/22)
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times (06/08/22)
Probably Ruby (04/06/22)
Sea of Tranquility (04/06/22)
Shit Cassandra Saw (03/02/22)
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (02/16/22)
People from My Neighborhood (11/17/21)
My Monticello (10/20/21)
All the Little Hopes (09/22/21)
Matrix (09/22/21)
Afterparties (08/18/21)
Walking on Cowrie Shells (07/14/21)
Things We Lost to the Water (06/09/21)
First Person Singular (04/07/21)
The Removed (02/03/21)
Nights When Nothing Happened (01/06/21)
Memorial Drive (09/16/20)
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures (09/02/20)
Waiting for an Echo (08/05/20)
How to Be an Antiracist (06/24/20)
Surviving Autocracy (06/03/20)
Fire in Paradise (05/20/20)
Barn 8 (04/22/20)
Beheld (03/18/20)
The Illness Lesson (02/19/20)
In the Dream House (01/22/20)
The Revisioners (01/08/20)
Frankissstein (10/30/19)
Who Put This Song On? (10/16/19)
Everything Inside (09/18/19)
The Trojan War Museum (08/21/19)
Orange World and Other Stories (06/19/19)
Daisy Jones & The Six (05/29/19)
The Parting Glass (05/01/19)
Women Talking (04/17/19)
The Wall (03/20/19)
Sugar Run (03/06/19)
The Falconer (02/20/19)
Late in the Day (01/23/19)
My Sister, the Serial Killer (01/09/19)
Those Who Knew (10/31/18)
His Favorites (10/17/18)
Your Duck Is My Duck (10/03/18)
A Terrible Country (09/19/18)
Brother (08/29/18)
The Wrong Heaven (08/15/18)
The Mars Room (06/20/18)
Some Trick (05/30/18)
American Histories (04/18/18)
The Parking Lot Attendant (03/21/18)
How to Stop Time (02/07/18)
The Kites (01/03/18)
Future Home of the Living God (11/15/17)
The Floating World (11/01/17)
Five-Carat Soul (10/04/17)
The Ninth Hour (09/20/17)
Hunger (08/02/17)
Golden Hill (07/12/17)
Priestdaddy (06/21/17)
The Women in the Castle (05/17/17)
The Islamic Enlightenment (05/03/17)
Temporary People (04/05/17)
Hillbilly Elegy (03/22/17)
Perfect Little World (02/15/17)
History of Wolves (01/04/17)
The Blind Astronomer's Daughter (11/02/16)
The Wonder (10/05/16)
Mischling (09/07/16)
How to Set a Fire and Why (07/13/16)
Smoke (06/01/16)
All Tomorrow's Parties (04/20/16)
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