Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Books mentioned:
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Our Town by Thornton Wilder

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Decades project videos:
1930s youtu.be/bBQlrHkDVuM
1940s youtu.be/RhxgnlopU1s
1950s youtu.be/KFYAnupP9NM
1960s youtu.be/0hCVro519Og
1970s youtu.be/2YGf2R1MUYM
1980s youtu.be/vwI-JtBPn18
1990s youtu.be/bNGU96VfNcw
2000s youtu.be/0yuG3Eu9D3I
2010s youtu.be/z1J-LWZgiQU
2020s youtu.be/kQ7IXx10G8U

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