Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 22 minutes ago

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Thanks for watching! This is not close to covering all of the nonfiction books I love. Let me know if you would want another video like this one. What are your favorite non-fiction reads?

00:00 Intro
00:53 Books about war
02:51 Adoption
04:03 Injustice
06:14 The Justice System
08:23 History
10:08 Science
10:44 Death
11:17 Drugs
12:25 Me Too
14:01 Con People
15:36 Outro

Books Mentioned:
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Cost of Free Land by Rebecca Clarren
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Woman they Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Smoke Gets in your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Missoula By Jon Krakauer
She Said by Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein