Year-End Lists

Town & Country: The Best Books of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2010s]

• Age of Vice
  Deepti Kapoor
• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Unscripted

  The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
  James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
• Brotherless Night
  V.V. Ganeshananthan
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• The Great Reclamation
  Rachel Heng
• You Could Make This Place Beautiful

  A Memoir
  Maggie Smith
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Crook Manifesto
  Colson Whitehead
• Young and Restless

  The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
  Mattie Kahn
• The Art Thief

  A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
  Michael Finkel
• Loot
  Tania James
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Glossy

  Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
  Marisa Meltzer
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• Going Infinite

  The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
  Michael Lewis
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett