The 20 Best Books of 2023

In 2023, we did a lot of hard things at Esquire. We launched our 90th anniversary issue, packed with 90 people and ideas that will shape the future. We built a new physical archive to house 90 years worth of very fragile magazines. We even set Lenny Kravitz’s piano on fire! But in a year of challenges and triumphs, the hardest thing we did might just have been hauling the Esquire books department to a new home.