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2000s Book Club!
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items Books that unpack the decade of low-rise jeans and high drama. A collection of essays, memoirs, and cultural deep dives that explore the trends, tabloids, tech, and teen idols that defined the 2000s. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the analysis.
Sections
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Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction (Music History)
Fiction
Celeb Memoirs
Non-Fiction
a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in
Y2K by Colette Shade | Books Are Magic
In the aughts, geekdom was the new rock’n’roll, Pokémon and PS2 kept the kids busy, a website called Amazon had just turned a profit and social media was beginning its bid for world domination. Savor a decade’s worth of magazine ads for food, alcohol...
All-American Ads of the 2000s
The first unauthorized look at the inner workings―and ultimate breakdown―of the Disney Channel machine.
Disney High: Rise & Fall of Disney Channel
Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the teen cultural phenomena that the early aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall...
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
The definitive historical account of 90s pop culture and trends.
The Nineties
a book on all things 2000s
Pop Goes the Decade
One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation.
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
When did feminism lose its way? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of reactionary cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress.
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty standard for generations of American women—before the b...
Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon
Non-Fiction (Music History)
An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever.
Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
There was Pete Wentz, the Fall Out Boy leader who launched a litany of scene-stealing bands and preposterous side-hustles, and Gerard Way, the wizard behind My Chemical Romance and The Black Parade. Panic! At the Disco and Paramore emerged soon after...
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006. A double-denim-loving time befor...
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame & Fallout
Beyonce said she liked his shirt. Geri drunk dialed him. Madonna sung into his face at Top of the Pops, and P!nk’s backing dancers laughed at his hair. Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s Pop Groupie reminisces about a time when the music industry wa...
Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s Pop Groupie
girls who damage their lungs from screaming too loud, fans rallying together to manipulate chart numbers using complex digital subversion, and an underworld of inside jokes and shared memories surrounding band members' allergies, internet typos, and ...
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
Fiction
Stars of a 2000s show coming back together for a reunion.
The Daydreams
A coming-of-age story about a 2000s star on the rise.
Honey: A Novel
Celeb Memoirs
The harrowing story of the Paris no one knew.
Paris: The Memoir
Her story in her own words.
The Woman in Me
iCarly's Jennette McCurdy recounts her childhood, growing up on TV, and a complicated relationship with her mother.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner’s final days.
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself