Retro


Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Daisy Jones & The Six
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Wood, Talc And Mr. J: We Never Had It So Good...
Pride and Prejudice
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Group
Fifteen
Wait Till Helen Comes
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Joyland
Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)
Calling Romeo by Alexandra PotterPhoning Home by Jacob M. AppelCall Waiting by Michelle CunnahMy Legendary Girlfriend by Mike GayleThe Ladybird Book of Red Tape by Jason A. Hazeley
Rotary Phones
45 books — 10 voters
The Impossible Fortress by Jason RekulakZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary PlowmanThe Soul Snatchers by Richard Sanford
Books featuring retro computers
3 books — 3 voters

Near Dead by Stephen R. GeorgeRuby by Kerry StewartBlood Autumn by Kathryn PtacekThe Witch and the Priest by Hilda LewisBlood Moon by Melanie Tem
Retro Horror Books (list 25)
99 books — 6 voters

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdyPaper Doll by Dylan MulvaneyPaperback Crush by Gabrielle MossHow to Build a Girl by Caitlin MoranDramaqueen by Tara-Louise Wittwer
Twee Pastel Faux-Vintage Book Covers
15 books — 2 voters
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverLolita by Vladimir NabokovPeyton Place by Grace Metalious
Step Back in the 50s/60s
25 books — 5 voters

Now, this girl? Classic. Legendary. Badass. She’s retro, kitsch, and completely owning it. You think she’s just some dude’s idea of sexy? She’s not his fantasy; she’s our symbol. We’re taking her back, bitch!
Sya Sen, Mudflap Girl

Simon Reynolds
The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ...more
Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

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the swinging sixties ⪩♡⪨ a group dedicated to the decade nobody wanted to end.
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Bookish Beauties Ladies only. A sister group to a ModCloth-themed chat group on Facebook. Discussion threads for…more
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Here we bond over anime and manga from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s
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Retro Horror Discussion of horror fiction from the 70's, 80's, and 90's - or really just any good pulp horror…more
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