Staff Picks 2017

Introduction

The audiobooks which feature as Staff Picks in 2016 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, which can be downloaded from the respective catalog pages.

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

LibriVox Staff Picks 2017

January 2017: Time to Get Started!

Fiction

First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton, read by Richard Kilmer

Redburn's First Voyage by Herman Melville, read by James K. White

David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd, read by Greg Weeks

Love and Freindship by Jane Austen, read by Cori Samuel

Non-Fiction

The Divine Companion by James Allen, group recording

Prehistoric Men by Robert J. Braidwood, group recording

John Gutenberg, First Master Printer by Franz von Dingelstedt, group recording

South African Memories by Lady Sarah Wilson, read by SallyMC

Drama

Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, drama

Poetry

The Prelude, by William Wordsworth, group recording

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 7993 times in January 2017.

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February 2017: Be my Valentine!

Fiction

French Medaeval Romandes from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France, group recording

Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué., read in German by Karlsson

Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost, read by Mary Bard

He Fell In Love With His Wife by Edward P. Roe, group recording

Salmelan Heinätelkoot by Olli Wuorinen, read in Finnish by Harri Tapani Ylilammi

Non-Fiction

Don't Marry! by James W. Donovan, group recording

Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi Written When She Was Eighty by Hester Lynch Piozzi, read by Crln Ylz Ksr

The Art of Kissing by Will Rossiter, group recording

Drama

The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr, drama

Poetry

Rose and Roof Tree, by George Parsons Lathrop, group recording

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 15307 times in February 2017.

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March 2017: Love that dare not...

Fiction

The Satyricon by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, group recording

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster, read by Julie Pandya

A L'ombre des Jeues Filles by Marcel Proust, read in French by Bernard

Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein, group recording

Ziska by Marie Corelli, read by ilianthe

Non-Fiction

3 Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud, group recording

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey, read by Margaret Espaillat

I, Mary MacLane by MaryMacLane, read by Lynne T.

Drama

The Trial of Oscar Wilde, anonymous court records, dramatic reading

Poetry

Poemas, by Federico Garcia Lorca, read in Spanish by Victor Villaranza

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