To me, a good coffee table book is something that you can pick up and read for as long or as short of a time as you like. Size doesn’t matter too much, but I do like it when they stack nicely.

My coffee table currently has a Calvin and Hobbes book on the bottom, with The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, Meanwhile by Jason Shiga, and Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime stacked on top of it. I might rotate some new one once in a while.