Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Thank you for watching! This has been such a fun year and there were some really amazing reads.

00:00 Intro
00:23 Adoption and social services
03:38 Candice Millard
05:17 Anecdotes that illustrate a bigger problem
07:42 Contemporary Reporting
13:53 Memoir
20:43 A couple more!
22:57 Outro

Books Mentioned
American Baby
The Girls Who Went Away
Invisible Child
Destiny of the Republic
The River of Doubt
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Not That Bad
Dream Land
Veritas
The Road to Jonestown
The Road to Unfreedom
Rogues
The Snakehead
Digital Gold
Ancestor Trouble
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Solito
We Don’t Know Ourselves
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Dead Man Walking
Hiroshima
The Third Chimpanzee