Staff Picks 2008/2009
NOTE: This page is work in progress (RuthieG)
Introduction
Here are the audiobooks which featured as Staff Picks in 2008/2009. More details of these selections may be found on the linked blog posts.
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 2009
September 2009: Picks of the Week
Solos
Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling, read by Jc Guan.
King Coal by Upton Sinclair, read by Michelle Harris.
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum, read by Alan Chant.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1, and Vol. 2, read by Ted Delorme.
Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, read by Elizabeth Klett.
The Green Odyssey by Philip Jose Farmer, read by Mark Nelson.
The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace.
Group Readings
The Dhammapada, translated by F. Max Muller.
French: À se tordre par Alphonse Allais.
Poetry
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, read by Peter Yearsley.
October 2009: Hallo Hallowe’en!
Solos
The Book of Hallowe’en by Ruth Edna Kelley, read by Sibella Denton.
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, read by David Barnes.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James, read by Peter Yearsley.
German: Nachtstücke von E.T.A. Hoffmann, gelesen von Rainer.
Animal Ghosts by Elliott O’Donnell, read by Allyson Hester.
Group Readings
Famous Modern Ghost Stories, compiled by Dorothy Scarborough.
The Beetle by Richard Marsh.
Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre.
Drama
Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Short Story
The Ghost Extinguisher by Gelett Burgess, read by Gregg Margarite.
November 2009: In Memory of the Fallen
Solos
Four Weeks in the Trenches by Fritz Kreisler, read by FNH.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall, read by Mike Vendetti.
Kitchener’s Mob, Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall, read by Mike Vendetti.
Dutch: Brieven van den nutteloozen toeschouwer by Louis Couperus, read by Anna Simon.
In the Field (1914-1915) by Marcel Dupont, read by FNH.
Over the Top by Arthur Empey, read by Mark F. Smith.
Group Readings
The Escape of a Princess Pat by George Pearson.
Canada’s Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 – Nov. 11, 1918. Part One Amiens, by John Frederick Livesay.
Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir.
A School History of the Great War by Albert E. McKinley, Charles A. Coulomb, and Armand J. Gerson.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 Anonymous, attributed to Kathleen Luard.
War Poetry
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae.
The Unconquered Dead by John McCrae.
Smile, Smile, Smile by Wilfred Owen.
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen.
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke.
Short Non-fiction Items
Bombardment of the Dardanelles, read by Bellona Times.
Haig Strikes Near Arras, read by Esther.
The First World War - Selections from the Manchester Guardian, read by Carl Manchester.
Austrian Emperor to Take Command at Vienna Headquarters, read by James Smith.
December 2009: Christmas
Solos
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale by Alice Hale Burnett, read by Kara Shallenberg.
The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown, read by Jan McGillivray.
Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, read by Allyson Hester.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
The Spirit of Christmas by Henry van Dyke, read by Jan MacGillivray
The Spirit of Christmas by Henry van Dyke, read by David Leeson.
Told after Supper by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Ruth Golding.
Dutch: Een Kerstlied in Proza by Charles Dickens, read by Bart de Leeuw
Group Readings
The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Old Christmas by Washington Irving.
Santa Claus’s Partner by Thomas Nelson Page
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Poetry, Short Stories and Song
Music On Christmas Morning by Anne Bronte
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore.
A second collection of Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore.
Christmas Carol Collection 2009.
German: Adventskalender 2009
Multilingual: The annual Christmas Short Works Collections from 2006 - 2009.
