Awesome Coffee Table Books to Add to Your Living Room
They say you can tell a lot about a person by their surroundings at home. Do they have paintings? Is their furniture built for pleasure or comfort, priceyness or practicality? But really, my favorite place to look for hints of my friends' identity is their coffee table — or rather what’s on top of it.
While not everyone has a coffee table book collection, I’m almost always pleasantly surprised by what I see when I take a look. More often than not, the books on coffee tables can be quirky, knowledgable, and full of pictures or graphics. And they often reflect the very habits and interests of the friends that put them there in the first place.
If you’re looking to add some cool coffee table books to your collection, here are some of the best ones in 2023!
Some of the Best Coffee Table Books in 2023
#1. The Bucket List: 1,000 Adventures Big & Small

by Kath Sanders
#2. Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide

by DK
#3. Humans of New York

by Brandon Stanton
#4. The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

by Lonely Planet
#5. Our National Monuments: America’s Hidden Gems

by QT Luong, Sally Jewell (foreword), Ian Shive (contributor)
#6. The Illustrated Mahabharata: The Definitive Guide to India’s Greatest Epic

by DK
#7. Wall and Piece

by Banksy
#8. The Art of Rick and Morty

by James Siciliano, et al
#9. Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond

by James Trefil, Buzz Aldrin (Foreword)
#10. Great Maps: The World’s Masterpieces Explored and Explained

by Jerry Brotton
#11. American Cowboys

by Anouk Masson Krantz
#12. 50 States, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do

by National Geographic and Joe Yogerst
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