Vanity Fair’s Best Books of 2023

The end of year lists just keep on coming. Today, we will be looking at Vanity Fair’s best books of 2023. Keep reading to find out which 20 books they chose!

This has been a fantastic year for new books. Vanity Fair has been consistently reviewing new releases and their list of the best books of 2023 is worth examining. They have some obvious picks and some surprises that aren’t on many lists.

A few books that Vanity Fair chose have made various other lists. Biography of X, Land of Milk and Honey, and Tom Lake are names that many readers will recognize. But I have to give VF credit for choosing a lot of books that haven’t gotten much love.

This list stands out for its uniqueness. Even if you have browsed dozens of lists (like I have) you will still see a lot of new titles. That is awesome and I hope that this makes people give these novels a chance. You can see the full list below!

Vanity Fair’s Best Books of 2023

• Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
• The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz
• Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore
• A “Working Life” by Eileen Myles
• Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
• Blackouts by Justin Torres
• Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal
• Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement by Tanisha Ford
• Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine Written and Edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel
• The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
• The Men Can’t Be Saved by Ben Purkert
• Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
• Omar Victor Diop & the Anonymous Project, Being There by Omar Victor Diop and Lee Shulman
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
• Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
• Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
• The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

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