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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
