Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Books mentioned:
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
This is How You Lose a Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehman
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
EILEEN by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell

0:00 intro
1:28 DNF
9:02 the premise had such promise
21:23 it mostly worked…
24:40 I quite liked these!
29:43 the dark horse


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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