Year-End Lists

Vogue: The Best Books of 2023

[see also 2024 • 2020 • 2019 • 2015]

• The Shards
  Bret Easton Ellis
• Sam
  Allegra Goodman
• The Survivalists
  Kashana Cauley
• Spare
  Prince Harry
• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Pat in the City

  My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules
  Patricia Field
• Cold People
  Tom Rob Smith
• The Everlasting Meal Cookbook

  Leftovers A-Z
  Tamar Adler
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Pineapple Street
  Jenny Jackson
• The Kingdom of Prep

  The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
  Maggie Bullock
• The Lost Wife
  Susanna Moore
• Independence Square
  Martin Cruz Smith
• The Half Moon
  Mary Beth Keane
• The Postcard
  Anne Berest
• Traffic

  Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
  Ben Smith
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• The Rachel Incident
  Caroline O'Donoghue
• The Quiet Tenant
  Clémence Michallon
• Little Monsters
  Adrienne Brodeur
• The Imposters
  Tom Rachman
• Young and Restless

  The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
  Mattie Kahn
• Holding Pattern
  Jenny Xie
• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• After the Funeral and Other Stories
  Tessa Hadley
• The Last Ranger
  Peter Heller
• The Spider
  Lars Kepler
• The Quickening

  Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
  Elizabeth Rush
• Learned by Heart
  Emma Donoghue
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• Omega Farm

  A Memoir
  Martha McPhee
• Loved and Missed
  Susie Boyt
• How I Won a Nobel Prize
  Julius Taranto
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• The Secret Hours
  Mick Herron
• The Children's Bach
  Helen Garner
• A Memoir of My Former Self

  A Life in Writing
  Hilary Mantel
• Absolution
  Alice McDermott
• Roman Stories
  Jhumpa Lahiri
• Vengeance Is Mine
  Marie NDiaye
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward
• Sonic Life

  A Memoir
  Thurston Moore
• The Vulnerables
  Sigrid Nunez
• My Name is Barbra
  Barbra Streisand
• Ilium
  Lea Carpenter