Nikki Sullivan

4 books read for LibriVox

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Evelina Fanny Burney
You get an awkward education in eighteenth-century manners as Evelina blunders through assemblies, opera boxes, and the Branghton family’s dreadful company. Her letters make every slight feel immediate, while Lord Orville’s restraint gives the romance room to breathe.
My Ántonia Willa Cather
You follow Jim Burden’s memory of Ántonia from a bleak Nebraska childhood into the complicated fullness of adult life, and the prairie slowly becomes a place of loss, work, and hard-won belonging. It’s quiet and sometimes melancholy, but Ántonia’s stubborn vitality gives the book its warmth.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy, translated by Leo Wiener non-fiction
Fair warning, this is Tolstoy the furious pamphleteer, not the novelist, and he repeats himself like a man grabbing your lapels. But his dismantling of churches that bless armies, and of ordinary people quietly enabling violence, still stings, and it reshaped Gandhi's whole thinking.
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill non-fiction
Fair warning, this is a Victorian philosopher building an argument, not telling a story, but Mill dismantles every excuse for keeping women legally powerless with such patient, dry logic that you keep wanting to cheer. Striking how much of it still lands a century and a half later.

4 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

Evelina Fanny Burney
You get an awkward education in eighteenth-century manners as Evelina blunders through assemblies, opera boxes, and the Branghton family’s dreadful company. Her letters make every slight feel immediate, while Lord Orville’s restraint gives the romance room to breathe.
My Ántonia Willa Cather
You follow Jim Burden’s memory of Ántonia from a bleak Nebraska childhood into the complicated fullness of adult life, and the prairie slowly becomes a place of loss, work, and hard-won belonging. It’s quiet and sometimes melancholy, but Ántonia’s stubborn vitality gives the book its warmth.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy, translated by Leo Wiener non-fiction
Fair warning, this is Tolstoy the furious pamphleteer, not the novelist, and he repeats himself like a man grabbing your lapels. But his dismantling of churches that bless armies, and of ordinary people quietly enabling violence, still stings, and it reshaped Gandhi's whole thinking.
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill non-fiction
Fair warning, this is a Victorian philosopher building an argument, not telling a story, but Mill dismantles every excuse for keeping women legally powerless with such patient, dry logic that you keep wanting to cheer. Striking how much of it still lands a century and a half later.