“What are the best Art, Photography, And Coffee Table books released in 2023?” We looked at 229 of the top Art, Photography, And Coffee Table books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 14 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Art, Photography, And Coffee Table” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 200+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

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Top 14 Best Art, Photography, And Coffee Table Books From 2023

14.) Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art written by Lauren Elkin

Lists It Appears On:

• Art Guide
• Waterstones

In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin―the celebrated author of Flâneuse―explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the…

13.) Ghostlight written by Keith Carter

Lists It Appears On:

• Photo-Eye
• Smithsonian

Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting, ethereal light. The newest collection from award-winning photographer Keith Carter, Ghostlight …

12.) Groundswell: Women of Land Art written by

Lists It Appears On:

• Art Guide
• Colossal

Using materials such as earth, wind, water, fire, wood, salt, rocks, mirrors and explosives, American artists of the 1960s began to move beyond the white cube gallery space to work directly in the land. With ties to Minimal and Conceptual art, these …

11.) How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity written by Jill Burke

Lists It Appears On:

• Shepherd
• Waterstones

Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this fascinating period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives….

10.) In This Brief Life written by Eugene Richards

Lists It Appears On:

• Photo-Eye
• Smithsonian

In this deeply personal book, Eugene Richards (born 1944) excavated a collection of more than 50 years of mostly unseen photographs―from his earliest pictures of sharecropper life in the Arkansas Delta to the present. In the midst of a fraught politi…

9.) Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science written by Julian Bell

Lists It Appears On:

• The Art Newspaper
• Waterstones

Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted “nature,” currents that would soon gather force to form modern science….

8.) The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World written by Jennifer Higgie

Lists It Appears On:

• Art Guide
• Waterstones

It’s not so long ago that a woman’s expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men—including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily…

7.) The Story of Art Without Men written by Katy Hessel

Lists It Appears On:

• Kirkus Review
• Shepherd

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?…

6.) The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters written by Benjamin Moser

Lists It Appears On:

• Kirkus Review
• Waterstones

Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting―casually at first, and then more and more obsessively―the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Ag…

5.) Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death written by Laura Cumming

Lists It Appears On:

• Shepherd
• Waterstones

Framing the story around the life of Fabritius, Cumming illuminates this extraordinary moment in art history while also writing about her own father, a painter. Like Dutch art, the story gradually links country, city, town, street, house, interior—al…

4.) Wires Crossed written by Ed Templeton

Lists It Appears On:

• Photo-Eye
• Smithsonian

Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera from Templeton’s journals, Wires Crossed offers an insider’s look at a subculture in the making and reflects the unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped c…

3.) All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me written by Patrick Bringley

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• Shepherd
• Waterstones

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a w…

2.) Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us written by Susan Magsamen

Lists It Appears On:

• Colossal
• Shepherd
• Waterstones

We’re on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible, and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone. Magsamen and Ross offer compelling research that shows how engaging in an art project for as little as 45 mi…

1.) Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma written by Claire Dederer

Lists It Appears On:

• Kirkus Review
• NPR
• Shepherd
• Waterstones

This unflinching, deeply personal book expands on Claire Dederer’s instantly viral Paris Review essay, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?” Can we love the work of artists such as Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Miles Davis, Polanski, or Picasso? …

The 200+ Additional Best Art, Photography, And Coffee Table Books Released In 2023

15) 100 20th-Century Shops – Susannah Charlton and Elain Harwood List: (Financial Times)

16) A Walk in the Woods – Nikki Grimes. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney. List: (NPR)

17) Aino + Alvar Aalto: A Life Together – Heikki Aalto-Alanen List: (Architectural Record)

18) All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake – Tiya Miles List: (Waterstones)

19) All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us – Kieran Yates List: (Waterstones)

20) All Things Move – Jeannie Marshall List: (Shepherd)

21) An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design – Teresa Moses and Omari Souza List: (Financial Times)

22) An Avian Alphabet – List: (Galleries West)

23) An Indigenous Present – Jeffrey Gibson List: (Colossal)

24) and, do you still hear the peacock? – Miho Kajioka List: (Photo-Eye)

25) Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils – David Bayles List: (Waterstones)

26) Art Is Magic – Jeremy Deller List: (Waterstones)

27) Baltimore Portraits – Steven Cuffie List: (Photo-Eye)

28) Believable: Traveling With My Ancestors – Lola Flash List: (Smithsonian)

29) Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, – Diana Seave Greenwald List: (The Art Newspaper)

30) Big – Vashti Harrison List: (NPR)

31) Big Fence / Pitcairn Island – Rhiannon Adam List: (Photo-Eye)

32) Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould – List: (Colossal)

33) Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance – Victoria Avery List: (The Art Newspaper)

34) Bolnichka – Vladyslav Krasnoshchok List: (Photo-Eye)

35) Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color – List: (Colossal)

36) Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion – Charlie Porter List: (Waterstones)

37) Brutalist Italy: Concrete Architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea – Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego List: (Financial Times)

38) Building Practice – Kyle Miller and Molly Hunker List: (Architectural Record)

39) By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship: Signed Edition – Florian Gadsby List: (Waterstones)

40) Canova: Sketching in Clay – C.D. Dickerson and Emerson Bowyer List: (The Art Newspaper)

41) CBK: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy: A Life in Fashion – Sunita Kumar Nair List: (Financial Times 2)

42) Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms – List: (Art Guide)

43) Chris Killip – Chris Killip List: (Photo-Eye)

44) Cleaning – Kenya Hara List: (Financial Times)

45) Coming and Going – Jim Goldberg List: (Photo-Eye)

46) Correspondence – Hajime Kimura List: (Photo-Eye)

47) Dark Waters – Kristine Potter List: (Photo-Eye)

48) Day for Night – Toshio Shibata List: (Photo-Eye)

49) Dead Ringer – Yael Eban & Matthew Gamber List: (Photo-Eye)

50) Death is Not Here – Wouter van de Voorde List: (Photo-Eye)

51) Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures – Lindsey Wikstrom List: (Architectural Record)

52) Desire Lines – Lara Shipley List: (Photo-Eye)

53) Di sguincio 1969–81 – Guido Guidi List: (Photo-Eye)

54) Diane Arbus Documents – Max Rosenberg, Editor List: (Photo-Eye)

55) Dior by Raf Simons: 2012-2015 – Tim Blanks List: (Financial Times 2)

56) Dormant Season – Erinn Springer List: (Photo-Eye)

57) Dream in the Rhythm – Grace Wales Bonner List: (Photo-Eye)

58) Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance – Jonathan Jones List: (Waterstones)

59) Elisabetta Sirani – Adelina Modesti List: (The Art Newspaper)

60) Far Away From Home – Hristina Tasheva List: (Photo-Eye)

61) Fashion – Paul Kooiker List: (Photo-Eye)

62) FASHION KILLA – Sowmya Krishnamurthy List: (Kirkus Review)

63) Fearless – Trinny Woodall List: (Waterstones)

64) Folly – Jaime Murray List: (Photo-Eye)

65) Framed – Lee Friedlander List: (Photo-Eye)

66) From the Heads of the Hollers – Shelby Lee Adams List: (Photo-Eye)

67) Gallup – Roswell Angier & Susan Hawley List: (Photo-Eye)

68) Giacometti in Paris – Michael Peppiatt List: (Waterstones)

69) Glassworks – Olivia Wolfgang-Smith List: (NPR)

70) Glitter Everywhere! Where It Came From, Where It’s Found & Where It’s Going – Chris Barton, illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat List: (NPR)

71) Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier – Marisa Meltzer List: (Financial Times 2)

72) Goin’ Down the Road with Robert Frank – Brian Graham List: (Photo-Eye)

73) Hamptons Modern: Contemporary Living on the East End – David Sokol List: (Architectural Record)

74) Hermann Czech: An Architect in Vienna – Eva Kuss List: (Financial Times)

75) Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983 – Jen B. Larson List: (NPR)

76) Holbein at the Tudor Court – Kate Heard List: (The Art Newspaper)

77) how shall we greet the sun – Thana Faroq List: (Photo-Eye)

78) How to Build Impossible Things – Mark Ellison List: (Waterstones)

79) Humpty Doom – Liss Fenwick List: (Photo-Eye)

80) Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague – Christopher Neve List: (Waterstones)

81) In Light of Everything – Debbie Fleming Caffery List: (Photo-Eye)

82) In Pursuit of Color, From Fungi to Fossil Fuels: Uncovering the Origins of the World’s Most Famous Dyes – Lauren MacDonald List: (The Art Newspaper)

83) India Knight’s Beauty Edit: What Works When You’re Older – India Knight List: (Waterstones)

84) Inside Pompeii – Luigi Spina List: (Financial Times)

85) Iwantja – List: (Art Guide)

86) Japanese Photography Magazines, 1880s to 1980s – Kaneko Ryuichi, Toda Masako, & Ivan Vartanian List: (Photo-Eye)

87) Jin-Me Yoon – List: (Galleries West)

88) John Ike: 9 Houses, 9 Stories – John Ike and Mitchell Owens List: (Architectural Record)

89) Kafka: A Manga Adaptation – Nishioka Kyodai, translated by David Yang List: (NPR)

90) Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing – List: (Art Guide)

91) Lake Erie – Lynn Whitney List: (Photo-Eye)

92) Landscapes – Christine Lai List: (NPR)

93) Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now – Phaidon List: (The Art Newspaper)

94) Leaning Out of Windows: An Art and Physics Collaboration – List: (Galleries West)

95) Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art – List: (Art Guide)

96) Los Angeles Spring – Robert Adams List: (Photo-Eye)

97) Love Bites – Tim Richmond List: (Photo-Eye)

98) Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park – List: (Colossal)

99) M/E: On this sphere Endlessly interlinking – Rinko Kawauchi List: (Photo-Eye)

100) MAESTROS & MONSTERS – Robert Boyers List: (Kirkus Review)

101) Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe 1400-1800 – List: (Galleries West)

102) Making History: Visual Arts & Blackness in Canada – List: (Galleries West)

103) Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide – Lisa Carroll and Milly Thomas List: (Broadway World)

104) MAMAMA – Ari Marcopolis, Mark Manders, & Karel Martens List: (Photo-Eye)

105) Meat, Fish & Aubergine Caviar – Alex Blanco List: (Photo-Eye)

106) Megalith-still – Mimi Plumb List: (Photo-Eye)

107) Melbourne Now 2023 – List: (Art Guide)

108) Mi’raj – J Carrier List: (Photo-Eye)

109) Mirror Image – Hannah Hughes List: (Photo-Eye)

110) Monet: The Restless Vision – Jackie Wullschläger List: (Waterstones)

111) Montaña Roja – César Rodríguez List: (Photo-Eye)

112) Monument – Trent Parke List: (Photo-Eye)

113) Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO – List: (Galleries West)

114) My Brother’s War – Jessica Hines List: (Photo-Eye)

115) My Strange Shrinking Parents – Zeno Sworder List: (NPR)

116) Naaahsa Aisinaki!/ Naaahsa Is An Artist!, – List: (Galleries West)

117) Napoli – Anders Petersen List: (Photo-Eye)

118) Next: A Visual Biography – Josef Koudelka List: (Photo-Eye)

119) Norman Foster: Complete Works 1965–Today – Norman Foster List: (Architectural Record)

120) Orange Grove – Clifford Prince King List: (Photo-Eye)

121) Ordinary Notes – Christina Sharpe List: (Shepherd)

122) Organized Living: Solutions and Inspiration for Your Home – Shira Gill List: (Waterstones)

123) Ornament Is Not A Crime – List: (Art Guide)

124) Other Ways of Being – Sangyon Joo List: (Photo-Eye)

125) Painting Photographs – Alice Wong List: (Smithsonian)

126) Paris Moderne: 1914–1945 – Jean-Louis Cohen and Guillemette Morel Journel List: (Architectural Record)

127) Park Place: Out West – David Heberlein List: (Photo-Eye)

128) Pasaco, 1996 – Luis Corzo List: (Photo-Eye)

129) People Things – Henry Schulz List: (Photo-Eye)

130) Photography and Korea – Jeehey Kim List: (Photo-Eye)

131) Photography in Canada, 1839-1989: An Illustrated History – List: (Galleries West)

132) Pictures from the Outside – Chantal Zakari List: (Photo-Eye)

133) Piero Portaluppi – Piero Maranghi List: (Financial Times)

134) Plexus – Elena Helfrecht List: (Photo-Eye)

135) Powerful Women – List: (Galleries West)

136) Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 – List: (Galleries West)

137) Prima Facie: Special Edition – Suzie Miller List: (Broadway World)

138) Private Scenes – Masahisa Fukase List: (Photo-Eye)

139) Quartet – Leah Broad List: (Kirkus Review)

140) Real Estate – Lee Friedlander List: (Photo-Eye)

141) Reclaimed: New Homes from Old Materials – Penny Craswell List: (Architectural Record)

142) Remember – Joy Harjo, illustrated by Michaela Goade List: (NPR)

143) Remember Me – Preston Gannaway List: (Smithsonian)

144) Reuse in Construction: A Compendium of Circular Architecture – Eva Stricker List: (Architectural Record)

145) Richard Harrington: Arctic Photography 1948-53 – List: (Galleries West)

146) Riopelle: Crossroads in Time – List: (Galleries West)

147) Running the Room: Conversations with Women Theatre Directors – Rosemary Waugh List: (Broadway World)

148) See What You’re Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too – Will Gompertz List: (Waterstones)

149) Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs – Mark Klett List: (Photo-Eye)

150) Sense – Ann Hamilton List: (Photo-Eye)

151) Seth, On Walls – List: (Colossal)

152) Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent – Judi Dench. List: (Broadway World)

153) Shark: Portraits – Mike Coots List: (Smithsonian)

154) Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch – List: (Galleries West)

155) Simone Leigh – List: (Colossal)

156) Sleeping State of Being – Sara Skorgan Teigen List: (Photo-Eye)

157) Sneaker Freaker: World’s Greatest Sneaker Collectors – List: (Smithsonian)

158) Some Magnetic Force: Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald Writings – List: (Galleries West)

159) SONIC LIFE – Thurston Moore List: (Kirkus Review)

160) Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body – RaMell Ross List: (Photo-Eye)

161) Steve McCurry: Devotion – Steve McCurry List: (Waterstones)

162) STEWDIO – Chuck D List: (Kirkus Review)

163) Still Life – Doan Ly List: (Smithsonian)

164) Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology – Beatrice Searle List: (Waterstones)

165) Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters – Bay Garnett List: (Waterstones)

166) Subida al Cielo – Lúa Ribeira List: (Photo-Eye)

167) Ta-ra – Sebastián Bruno List: (Photo-Eye)

168) Takao Tanabe: Life & Work – List: (Galleries West)

169) Takao Tanabe: Printmaker – List: (Galleries West)

170) Take What You Need – Idra Novey List: (NPR)

171) Talk Art The Interviews – Talk Art – Russell Tovey List: (Waterstones)

172) Tender – Carla Williams List: (Photo-Eye)

173) The Advanced School of Collective Feeling: Inhabiting Modern Physical Culture 1926–38 – Nile Greenberg and Matthew Kennedy List: (Architectural Record)

174) The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession – Michael Finkel List: (Shepherd)

175) The Christmas Book: Exclusive Edition – Phaidon Editors List: (Waterstones)

176) The Closet: A Coming-of-Age Story of Love, Awakenings and the Clothes That Made – Teo van den Broeke List: (Waterstones)

177) The Day May Break, Chapter Two – Nick Brandt List: (Photo-Eye)

178) The Drawer – Vince Aletti List: (Photo-Eye)

179) The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe – Kate Strasdin List: (Waterstones)

180) The End Sends Advance Warning – Todd Hido List: (Photo-Eye)

181) The Enigma of Belonging – Binh Danh List: (Photo-Eye)

182) The Eyes and the Impossible – Dave Eggers List: (NPR)

183) The Faces of Contemporary Cities – Davide Ponzini List: (Architectural Record)

184) The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors – Michael Coveney List: (Broadway World)

185) The Future Without You – Max Pinckers & Thomas Sauvin List: (Photo-Eye)

186) The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft – Peter Bellerby List: (Waterstones)

187) The God of Endings – Jacqueline Holland List: (NPR)

188) The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race – Farah Karim-Cooper List: (Kirkus Review)

189) The Horses – Gareth McConnell List: (Smithsonian)

190) The Iconic British House – Dominic Bradbury List: (Architectural Record)

191) The Inhabitants – Raymond Meeks List: (Photo-Eye)

192) The Invisible Journey – Julien Berthier List: (Photo-Eye)

193) The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle – Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon List: (Galleries West)

194) The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity – Nicholas Day, illustrated by Brett Helquist List: (NPR)

195) The Oldest Thing – Ruth van Beek List: (Photo-Eye)

196) The Passing of the Dragon – Ken Liu List: (Shepherd)

197) The Playwright’s Journey – Jemma Kennedy List: (Broadway World)

198) The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities – Caroline Campbell List: (Waterstones)

199) The Public Life of Women – A Feminist Memory Project List: (Photo-Eye)

200) The Repair Shop: Crafts in the Barn: Skills, stories and heartwarming restorations: THE LATEST BOOK – Jay Blades List: (Waterstones)

201) The Sapper – Bharat Sikka List: (Photo-Eye)

202) The Seraphim – Jesse Lenz List: (Photo-Eye)

203) The Style Thesaurus – Hannah Kane List: (Waterstones)

204) The Times – Adam Nagourney List: (Kirkus Review)

205) The Uncanny – Léonard Pongo List: (Photo-Eye)

206) The World Is Where You Stop – Tomasz Tomaszewski List: (Photo-Eye)

207) The Worth of Art – Arturo Cifuentes List: (Shepherd)

208) There will be two of you – Michael Ashkin List: (Photo-Eye)

209) Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change – Lynne B List: (Architectural Record)

210) Timeslag – Krass Clement List: (Photo-Eye)

211) Tom Thomson: North Star – List: (Galleries West)

212) Total Ethics Fashion: People, Our Fellow Animals and the Planet Before Profit – Emma Hakansson List: (Financial Times 2)

213) Tracings: Writing Art, 1975-2020 – List: (Galleries West)

214) Unearthing – Kyo Maclear List: (Shepherd)

215) Unnamed Road – Jungjin Lee List: (Photo-Eye)

216) Untitled Men – Carolyn Drake List: (Photo-Eye)

217) Venice: City of Pictures – Martin Gayford List: (Waterstones)

218) Vermeer – The Rijksmuseum’s major exhibition catalogue – Pieter Roelofs List: (Waterstones)

219) Very Pictorial Conceptual Art – Robert Cumming List: (Photo-Eye)

220) Vincent Namatjira – List: (Art Guide)

221) War vol 7-8 – Olexandr Glyadelov List: (Photo-Eye)

222) Western Voices in Canadian Art – List: (Galleries West)

223) Where the Hearth Is: Stories of home: Signed Bookplate Edition – Kate Humble – Kate Humble List: (Waterstones)

224) Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 33 – Roz Kidman Cox List: (Waterstones)

225) Winogrand Color – Garry Winogrand List: (Photo-Eye)

226) With and For – Rochelle Marie Adam & Sophie Schwartz List: (Photo-Eye)

227) Witness Mark – Klea McKenna List: (Photo-Eye)

228) You Will Look to the Mountains – Anne Rearick List: (Photo-Eye)

229) You’d Look Better as a Ghost – Joanna Wallace List: (Shepherd)

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