Staff Picks 2015
Introduction
The audiobooks which feature as Staff Picks in 2015 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 and the Internet Archive LibriVox index page are always welcome. Please post your suggestions in this thread.
LibriVox Staff Picks 2015
May 2015: Work Force
Fiction
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett, read by Jeannie
Collaboration by Henry James, read by David Wales
Calumet "K" by S. Merwin & H.K. Webster, read by Betsie Bush
The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Delmar H. Dolbier
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, read by Bob Tassinari
Non-Fiction
The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris Jones, group recording
Just Me by Pearl White, read by Pamela Krantz
Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie, group recording
Drama
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare, drama
Poetry
The Complete Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Vol. 1, by Wallace Stevens, read by Alan Davis Drake
April 2015: Space Odyssey
Fiction
Off on a Comet by Jules Verne, group recording
Gulliver of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold, read by James Christopher
The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun, read by Richard Kilmer
Unwise Child by Randall Garrett, read by Mark Nelson
Planet of Dread by Murray Leinster, read by Phil Chenevert
Non-Fiction
Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett P. Serviss, group recording
Great Astronomers by Robert Stawell Ball, read by MaryAnn Spiegel
The Unreality of Time by John McTaggart, read by Carl Manchester
Drama
R.U.R. - Rossums Universal Robots by Karel Capek, drama
Poetry
The Star Treader and Other Poems, by Clark Ashton Smith, group recording
March 2015: Good Times
Fiction
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair, read by Expatriate
The Blue Bird for Children by Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette Leblanc, group recording
The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke, group recording
Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter, read by Mary Anderson
Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, group recording
Non-Fiction
Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success by James Allen, read by Andrea Fiore
A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, group recording
Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer, read by D. E. Wittkower
Drama
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, dramatic reading
Poetry
An Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope, read by Martin Geeson
Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 5150 times in March 2015.
February 2015: Mother Tongues
Fiction
Short Stories by Jin-geon Hyun, read by Jessie Yun in Korean
Guld og Ære by Otto Martin Møller, read by Kristoffer Hundsdahl in Danish
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyris by Unknown, read by zaaf in Latin
La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando by Lewis Carroll, read by Nicholas James Bridgewater in Esperanto
Trafalgar by Benito Pérez Galdós, read by Tux in Spanish
Non-Fiction
A Handbook of the Kavirondo Language by Fathers of St. Joseph's Society, read by Nicholas and Grace Bridgewater in English and Dholuo
The Lives of the Saints for February by St. Dimitri of Rostov, read by euthemius in Church Slavonic
The Apology of Socrates by Plato, read by zaaf in Ancient Greek
Drama
Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, drama in German
Poetry
Puisi Dari Indonesia, by various authors, read by Christianese in various Indonesian languages
Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 4959 times in February 2015.
January 2015: Bright Lights
Fiction
Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. Comstock, read by Roger Melin
The Finding of Haldgred by Charles W. Diffin, read by Richard Kilmer
The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling, group recording
Lavender and Old Lace by Myrtle Reed, read by Bridget
Doctor Ox's Experiment by Jules Verne, read by Alan Winterrowd
Non-Fiction
Optics by Isaac Newton, group recording
Instructions to Light Keepers by US Lighthouse Board, read by Maria Kasper
Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen, read by Andrea Fiore
Drama
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, drama
Poetry
Hymns to the Night, by Novalis, read by Pete Williams
Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 3774 times in January 2015.
