Year-End Lists

Vanity Fair: Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2020]

• The Lookback Window
  Kyle Dillon Hertz
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• a "Working Life"
  Eileen Myles
• Sonic Life

  A Memoir
  Thurston Moore
• Idlewild
  James Frankie Thomas
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Eastbound
  Maylis de Kerangal
• Our Secret Society

  Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
  Tanisha Ford
• Bob Dylan

  Mixing up the Medicine
  Parker Fishel and Mark Davidson
• The Slip

  The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
  Prudence Peiffer
• The Men Can't Be Saved
  Ben Purkert
• Those We Thought We Knew
  David Joy
• Omar Victor Diop & The Anonymous Project, Being There
  Omar Victor Diop & Lee Shulman
• The Woman in Me
  Britney Spears
• Traffic

  Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
  Ben Smith
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

  A Journey Through the Deep State
  Kerry Howley
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward
• The Hive and the Honey
  Paul Yoon
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett