Staff Picks 2018

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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 2018

January 2018: Sounds Great!

Fiction

Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence, read by Bill Boerst

Der arme Spielmann by Franz Grillparzer, read in German by Availle

The First Violin by Jessie Fothergill, read by Sandra G.

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy, read by Rachel Lintern

A Cathedral Singer by James Lane Allen, read by David Wales

Non-Fiction

How to Listen to Music by Henry E. Krehbiel, group recording

Chopin: the Man and Music by James Huneker, group recording

Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens, group recording

Drama

Confidences d'un joueur de Clarinette, by Erckmann-Chatrian, French drama

Poetry

Folk Ballad Collection 001, by Various, read and sung by LibriVoxers

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 3895 times in January 2018.


February 2018: Cold, Cold Winter

Fiction

The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge by Laura Lee Hope, group recording

The Land of the Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair, read by Roger Melin

The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Augusta Groner, read by Dawn Larsen

Snow Blind by Katharine Newlin Burt, read by Roger Melin

In Winter by Yosef Hayim Brenner, read in Hebrew by Omri Lernau

Non-Fiction

Auf Schneeschuhen übers Gebirge by Fridtjof Nansen, group recording in German

Adrift on an Ice Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell, read by Sean Michael Hogan

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew A. Henson, read by Lee Smalley

Drama

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, by Jessie Braham White, drama

Poetry

The Snowflake and Other Poems, by Arthur Weir, group recording

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 4048 times in February 2018.


March 2018: Feed Me!

Fiction

Tea-table Talk by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Ruth Golding

Make Mine Homogenized by Rick Raphael, read by Gregg Margarite

John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum, group recording

The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter, read by Cindy Steib

Bei Tische - eine gastrosophische Novelle by Otto Roquette, read in German by Crln Yldz Ksr

Non-Fiction

Six Cups of Coffee by Various, group recording

The Lord's Table by Andrew Murray, read by Phil Snyder

No Animal Food & Diet With Vegetable Reipes by Rupert H. Wheldon, read by Ben Adams

Drama

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, by Louise May Alcott, dramatic reading

Poetry

Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion, by Imogen Clark, read by Betsie Bush