2025 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read this one. You know, the one for the rest of us.
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December 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
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!
Why I’m No Longer Observing Thanksgiving
And what I’m doing instead.
November Reads for the Rest of Us
The feminists are heading to NWSA in Puerto Rico this month! And we're reading these books.
October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
In a time when we need it the most, these 20 books will provide the knowledge, respite, ideas, empathy and rage we need right now to continue the work of liberation.
Random Thoughts for a Rainy Saturday Morning
After a week of COVID, I am salty and antsy to get moving and try something new. What good trouble can I get into?
September 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Check out the top 25 books that Ms. intern, Violet Pandya, and I are excited about this month!
August 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Check out the top 25 books that Ms. intern, Violet Pandya, and I are excited about this month!
A Cure for What Ails You
An early review of Stephanie Allen's 2019 book Tonic and Balm that was featured in Medium Books.
July 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Check out the top 22 books that Ms. intern, Violet Pandya, and I are excited about this month!
June 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Reading even just one or two of the 25 books below is a first step towards sending the message that we will continue to support the arts and prioritize the stories being told by and about marginalized groups.
May 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The 26 books on this month’s list provide some of that much-needed hope and joy as well. They tell stories of strength and resilience, of relationships and love, of imagination and dreams.
Reads for the Rest of Us
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025
Some of the most exciting and extraordinary poetry titles I’ve read in 2024=2025.
Reads for the Rest of Us
April 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
I hope you find some titles among the 25 here that will provide you with what you need now so that you can continue to keep going in your corner of the world.
Women's History Month Series
History of reproductive justice reading list
The fight for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy continues
Women's History Month Series
They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds
Women's histories of resistance
Astrology and Tarot
My go-to oracle and tarot decks
Choose the right decks for you, or try one of my favorites
Archive
When is my solitude self care and when is it avoidance? - A reflection
Honoring introversion without giving in to depression and anxiety
Women's History Month Series
These are the biographies to read this Women's History Month
Happy Women's History Month! When the world feels like a dumpster fire, I am so glad we still have books. If you've read Ms. Feminist Know-It-All, my column with Ms. Magazine, you'll know how much I love books and the escape reading provides in
Reads for the Rest of Us
Want to see your latest poetry collection in Ms. Mag? Read this post!
April is National Poetry Month, and it's coming on fast! As you may know, I write a poetry column for Ms. Magazine each year, so if you are a publisher or writer and haven't sent me your latest collection yet, please send them along or get
Reads for the Rest of Us
March 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Note: This article was originally published by Ms. Magazine on Mar. 4, 2025. Hello, feminist reader friends! Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: 1. I want to do my
Reads for the Rest of Us
February Reads for the Rest of Us
Note: This article was originally published by Ms. Magazine on Feb. 18, 2025. Hello, feminist reader friends! Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: 1. I want to do my
Reads for the Rest of Us
January 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Note: This article was originally published by Ms. Magazine on Jan. 31, 2025. Hello, feminist reader friends! Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: 1. I want to do my
Reads for the Rest of Us
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025
Top 100 Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 at Ms. Magazine - Karla J. Strand