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What can we say? We messed up. Our list of "80 Books Every Man Should Read," published several years ago, was rightfully called out for its lack of diversity in both authors and titles. So we invited eight female literary powerhouses, from Michiko Kakutani to Anna Holmes to Roxane Gay, to help us create a new list. Each participant made 10 picks. It's a new year, a new Esquire.com. We're looking forward to reading and we hope you are, too.

Serial fans everywhere let out a cry of disappointment last Thursday when it was announced the beloved and highly addictive Serial podcast would change to a bi-weekly schedule. If the pages and pages of supplemental material on the podcast's website…

Keaton / 23 / Gay trans poet man / He/him / "Happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness" --Mary Oliver

📚A Thousand Splendid Suns written by ✍️ @khosseini "A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you" Brief : Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, but her life intersects with Mariam's when a similar tragedy forces her to accept a marriage proposal from Mariam's…