Staff Picks 2013

Introduction

The audiobooks which feature as Staff Picks in 2013 will be added here. More details of these selections may be found on the linked blog posts. For more information and a list of Staff Picks in previous years, have a look at the main Staff Picks page

If you prefer to download m4b files, all our staff picks have been converted to this format. A current list of the Staff Picks can be found on the main page of the M4B Catalog.

Suggestions for future Staff Picks on the LibriVox home page and the Internet Archive LibriVox index page are always welcome. Please post your suggestions in this thread.

LibriVox Staff Picks 2013

March 2013: Like Day and Night

Fiction

The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates, read by Susan Umpleby

The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald, read by Laurie Anne Walden

Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes, group recording

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, read by Euthymius

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, group recording

Non-Fiction

Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden, read by Barry Eads

Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain, read by John Greenman

The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal, read by J. L. Raimundo

Drama

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, drama

Poetry

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake, read by Nick Duncan

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February 2013: The Color Black

Fiction

The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, read by James K. White

J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. Cobb, read by Grant Hurlock

The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar, group recording

Passing by Nella Larsen, read by Elizabeth Klett

Clotel, or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown, group recording

Non-Fiction

Toussaint L'Ouverture, A Biography and Autobiography by John Relly Beard, read by James K. White

Meditations from the Pen by Maria W. Stewart, read by James K. White

The Colored Cadet at West Point by Henry Ossian Flipper, read by James K. White

Drama

Othello by William Shakespeare, drama

Poetry

The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris, read by Phil Chenevert

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 7359 times in February 2013.

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January 2013: After the Apocalypse

Fiction

The Master Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith, read by Roger Melin

The Iron Heel by Jack London, read by Matt Soar

The Edge of the Knife by H. Beam Piper, read by jfmarchini

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, group recording

Omega: The Last Days of the World by Camille Flammarion, group recording

Non-Fiction

Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale, read by Cori Samuel

The Esperanto Teacher by Helen Fryer, group recording

Food Preparedness by Dr. Albert Philip Sy, read by TriciaG

Drama

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, dramatic reading

Poetry

The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, group recording