Fellow Broads! Please picture the pages of a calendar flying past, as if we’re in a movie from 1943. It is already September, and thus my last opportunity to dive back into summer bestsellers. Carpe diem! As you know, we already did fiction, and on the non-fiction beat, we most recently took a pitstop in the 1930s, and prior to that, the 1950s, the 1970s and the 1980s. Now, put on your Doc Martens and grab your lunchbox purse and come with me back to a time I suspect many of us clearly remember, due to having been sentient adults: the 1990s. I warn you, Rush Limbaugh makes an appearance. (To be clear, please just imagine me muttering, “Fuck you, Rush Limbaugh,” every time I type his name.) Speaking of historical American charmers, there’s also a lot of OJ Simpson. Overall, though, it’s an interesting decade; you can totally see the seeds of 2026 America (derogatory) in the popularity of a lot of these books.
1990: I personally believe that 1990 is still emotionally the 1980s. The ‘90…