Ordinary Notes is a book by American academic Christina Sharpe, published in April 2023 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[3][4] Among its 248 notes are recollections of the presidency of Barack Obama, a discussion of Obama's response to the 2015 Charleston church shooting, an anecdote at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a discussion of Roland Barthes's book Camera Lucida, and an analysis of a character in Toni Morrison's Beloved.

[1][3][4] Ordinary Notes received a positive review by Brendan Buck in Newcity, who praised Sharpe's writing as "not just personal or academic" but using an "inventive form" to discuss personal, academic, historical, and other facets of black identity.

[5] Kirkus Reviews praised Sharpe's writing as "exquisitely original" and "artistry",[4] while Jennifer Szalai, writing for The New York Times views her collection of notes "as a rejoinder" to popular conceptions to black life.

[6] Kirkus Reviews named Ordinary Notes one of the best non-fiction books of 2023.