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Could anyone suggest good source of all fusion reactions and their cross section vs energy graphs, including ones which were ruled out for nuclear fusion reactors (i.e. including endothermic and reactions with only 1 product)?

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You can immediately restrict yourself to the three isotopes of Hydrogen and Lithium, everything else is too Coulombically supressed. – Ron Maimon Sep 24 '12 at 7:43
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@RonMaimon How about B11-p near 150keV? ;-) – BarsMonster Sep 24 '12 at 11:10
It's not as complete as the references given by Warrick, but there is a quick overview in the 7th slide of this presentation by Todd Rider. – mmc Sep 24 '12 at 16:38

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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but the most widely used reference for many nuclear reaction rates in stars in Caughlan & Fowler (1988). It's not so much a paper as an enormous reference for many reactions. I've just discovered that it isn't open access yet and I'm not sure what can be done about that...

Some reaction rates have subsequently been updated and been given corrections for various effects that modify the rates inside stars. If you want a full description, you can pick up a recent stellar evolution code paper. e.g. have a look at Sections 4.4 and 4.5 of the code paper for MESA.

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