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Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Whether or not you pick up the science books on our lists, or you try some poetry, or a new-to-you genre of fiction, I hope you find something here that’s both exciting and educational.
Happy April, and Happy National Poetry Month. Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year and share them with you.
In 2021, I tried something a bit different with the poetry list: Instead of the usual blurb, I focused my thoughts about each collection into three words. Readers responded so well to it that I decided to keep doing it. Sometimes the words are nouns, sometimes verbs, sometimes adjectives—and I may have just made up some words too. The words I choose are always inspired by the collection and often taken directly from it. Sometimes I try to be clever, other times straightforward and you can tell I love my alliteration. Since I find it challenging to be succinct, this is a valuable exercise in imagination, reflection and, well, restraint.
I hope you find some collections that will have you reflecting on how poetry moves you, challenges you and represents you.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
April means a new season, with plants sprouting and leaves returning to deciduous trees. It also means new books—and lots of them!
Check out the 25 books we’ve chosen to highlight this month.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Wishing you a powerful, inspired and liberatory Women’s History Month!
Check out this month’s list of 24 books.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
There are hundreds of books being released every month, and it is challenging to narrow down the titles to a manageable list of 20-ish. I pride myself on finding the hidden gems—the ones you may not hear about otherwise. That means that I sometimes forgo some of the most buzzy books for ones that haven’t gotten as much publicity, even though they deserve it.
So all that said, here is February’s list of 28 books. It was one of those months where it was tough to decide—enjoy the extra titles!
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Check out the top 25 books we are excited about for January.
Happy new year, feminist readers! I hope you’ll make it a goal to carve out time to read, and I’m here to share the top books we are excited about this year.
We’ve scoured catalogs and websites, searched our favorite authors, kept up with socials and tried to get through as much email as we can to find the gems that we know Ms. readers will love and learn from. We look for feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, original, radical and reflective books. Subversive books. Books that’ll make you think and feel.
It’s a lot of work, but as a librarian and Ms. Feminist Know-It-All, it’s what I do! And it’s labor I love.
Here are the top 94 books we’re looking forward to in 2026.
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read this one. You know, the one for the rest of us.
Here are Ms. magazine’s top feminist books of 2025.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
December’s 14 titles are great for gifting or curling up with on a cold winter’s night. Wishing you all a lovely holiday season!
Professor Melissa McCoul was dismissed in September after teaching LGBTQ+ themes in her children’s literature course at Texas A&M. Just this week, a faculty council determined McCoul’s firing violated her academic freedom.
But politicians and activists who oppose what they call “woke gender ideology,” are galvanized and doubling down, using this Texas A&M case to push for curricular reviews aimed at eliminating women’s, gender and sexuality studies from public colleges and universities across Texas.
Framed as bureaucratic oversight, conservatives seek to eliminate gender studies and related fields through procedural mechanisms that evade public scrutiny. The assaults on gender studies in Texas are not just a local issue; they are a national bellwether. They signal a coordinated effect to dismantle feminist and queer inquiry and remind us that silence, in the face of repression, is complicity.