Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Eleven top 90’s throwback books

Nora Dahlia is a lifestyle writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, among others. Dahlia is also a branded content expert, book doctor, ghostwriter, collaborator, and writing coach. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two kids.

She is the author of Backslide and Pick-Up.

At People magazine Dahlia tagged eleven newer "90’s throwback books.... From memoir to literary fiction and from light to dark, these stories—though often complex in content—envelop us in simpler times." One title on the list:
Kate & Frida by Kim Fay

Twenty-something Frida Rodriguez comes to butter-soaked Paris in 1991 with visions of becoming a war correspondent. But when she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, she accidentally meets bookseller Kate Fair — and they inspire each other in unexpected ways.

Through the most tumultuous years of their young lives — personally and globally — Kate and Frida show each other how to overcome self-doubt and embrace joy even through their darkest hours in the last precious years before the internet changed everything.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue