Babbling Books

The War of the End of the World is the first book that I have read by Mario Vargas Llosa. This is a massive and sprawling novel that chroni...

A  Brother’s Price  by Wen Spencer is one of several novels that I have read over the past few years that center around fictional matriarch...

Under Western Eyes is Joseph Conrad’s Russian novel. I found this to be another brilliant Conrad effort. As is typical of Conrad, this...

The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams an exploration of evolutionary psychology. Stewart-Williams argues for ...

The Great Influenza by Joh n M. Barry is a chronicle of the 1918 influenza as it effected The United States. This outbreak killed more...

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a classic gothic ghost story. The book, which has been the subject of several films and te...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novel whose plot reflects its title. It is about a terrible crime and punishment that is b...