Justin Brett

3 books read for LibriVox

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume
You get a bracing lesson in how little your certainty rests on, especially in Hume’s discussion of cause and effect, where habit quietly replaces proof. The prose is clear but the argument asks you to slow down, making this rewarding if you enjoy having familiar assumptions politely dismantled.
Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau, translated by Laura E. Kendall
If you want to see detective fiction before Sherlock Holmes existed, here's Lecoq crawling around a snowy murder scene reading footprints, matching wits with a prisoner who won't crack. Fair warning: halfway through it swerves into a long family backstory, so patience helps.
The History of Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray
You settle into Henry Esmond’s mock memoir as he moves through Restoration England, where Catholic loyalty, ambition, and appetite tangle around the courts of Charles II and James II. It’s long and deliberately old-fashioned, but his vanity and Thackeray’s sharp social comedy reward patience.

3 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume
You get a bracing lesson in how little your certainty rests on, especially in Hume’s discussion of cause and effect, where habit quietly replaces proof. The prose is clear but the argument asks you to slow down, making this rewarding if you enjoy having familiar assumptions politely dismantled.
Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau, translated by Laura E. Kendall
If you want to see detective fiction before Sherlock Holmes existed, here's Lecoq crawling around a snowy murder scene reading footprints, matching wits with a prisoner who won't crack. Fair warning: halfway through it swerves into a long family backstory, so patience helps.
The History of Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray
You settle into Henry Esmond’s mock memoir as he moves through Restoration England, where Catholic loyalty, ambition, and appetite tangle around the courts of Charles II and James II. It’s long and deliberately old-fashioned, but his vanity and Thackeray’s sharp social comedy reward patience.