Staff Picks 2012

Introduction

The audiobooks which feature as Staff Picks in 2012 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 2012

June 2012: LibriVox World Tour 2012: AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA

Fiction

Maori Land Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, read by Mareab

Omoo by Herman Melville, read by TriciaG

Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, read by iremonger

Rain by W. Somerset Maugham, read by Bellona Times

The Pioneers by Katharine S. Prichard, read by kirstyl

Non-Fiction

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, by Sir John Barrow, group recording

The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London, group recording

Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition 1860 by Andrew Jackson, group recording

Drama

The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, musical

Poetry

Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, by C. J. Dennis, read by Algy Pug

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May 2012: The Fine Arts

Fiction

The Moving Picture Girls by Laura Lee Hope, read by Cori Samuel

The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart, read by Mary Ann

The Pagan Madonna by Harold MacGrath, read by Don W. Jenkins

Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac, read by Chip

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, group recording

Non-Fiction

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, by John Ruskin, read by Todd Ulbrich

How to Sing by Lilli Lehmann, read by Ruth Golding

How to Appreciate Music by Gustav Kobbé, group recording

Drama

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, dramatic reading

Poetry

Poems of William Blake, read by Sam Stinson

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 9753 times in May 2012.

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April 2012: LibriVox World Tour 2012: ASIA

Fiction

Afghanistan: The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling, read by Philippa

Burma: On the Irrawaddy by G. A. Henty, read by Mike Harris

China: The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China by Jules Verne, group recording

Philippines: Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal, read by Availle

Non-Fiction

Turkey: Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau, read by Margaret Espillat

India: Sadhana, by Rabindranath Tagore, group recording

Siam: The English Governess at the Siamese Court by Anna H. Leonowens, duet

Russia/Mongolia/China: Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski, read by Mark F. Smith

Drama

Persia: Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe, drama

Poetry

Japan: One Hundred Verses from Old Japan by Fujiwara no Teika, read by Kevin Steinbach

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 4447 times in April 2012.

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March 2012: Mighty Women

Fiction

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, group recording

The Sturdy Oak, group recording

The Third Miss Symons by F. M. Mayor, read by Rachel Lintern

The Devil's Pool by George Sand, read by J. M. Smallheer

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, group recording

Non-Fiction

Eighty Years and More - Reminiscences 1815 - 1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, group recording

Woman in Science, by John Augustine Zahm, group recording

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Ida Laura Pfeiffer, read by Sibella Denton

Drama

Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, drama

Poetry

Selected Works: Poems by Voltairine de Cleyre, group recording

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 5373 times in March 2012.

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February 2012: LibriVox World Tour 2012: EUROPE

Fiction

Ireland: The Gambler by Katherine Thursdon, read by Tom Weiss

Hungary: Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai, read by MaryAnn

The Netherlands: Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge, read by Mark F. Smith

Sweden: The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf, read by Lars Rolander

Russia: The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, read by Dorlene and Larry Caplan

Non-Fiction

France: Five Years of My Life 1894 - 1899 by Alfred Dreyfus, read by Sue Anderson

Greece: Histories, by Herodotus, group recording

Switzerland: Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860--69 by Edward Whymper, read by Nicholas Clifford

Drama

Italy: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, drama

Poetry

Portugal: The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camões, read by Leni

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 3048 times in February 2012.

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January 2012: Improve Yourself!

Fiction

Little Lord Fountleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, group reading

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, read by Mark F. Smith

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, read by Peter Bobbe

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, group recording

Tip Lewis and His Lamp by Pansy, read by Tricia G

Non-Fiction

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett, read by Mark F. Smith

The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, group recording

Habits that Handicap by Charles B. Towns, group recording

Drama

Everyman by Unknown, drama

Poetry

The Goop Directory by Gelett Burgess, read by Andrea L.

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 19332 times in January 2012.

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