Staff Picks 2019
LibriVox Staff Picks 2019
January 2019: Epic Resolutions
Fiction
War and Peace by Leo Tolstory, group recordings
Middlemarch (version 2) by George Eliot, read by Margaret Espaillat
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, group recording in French
The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, read by Nick Bulka
Varney, the Vampyre Vols. 1-3 by Thomas Prest, group recordings
Non-Fiction
Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray, group recordings
la Historia de Heródoto by Herodotus, translated by Bartolomé Pou, read in Spanish by Tux
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss, translated by George Eliot, read by Leni
Drama
Faust I and Faust II, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Bayard Taylor, plays
Poetry
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, read by Thomas A. Copeland
Note: The books from this selection got downloaded x times in January 2019.
February 2019: What’s so Funny?
Fiction
Humour of the North by various, group recording
Bildergeschichten by Wilhelm Busch, group recording in German
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare
The Mirror Of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah, read by David Wales
Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagabundos y espejo de tacaños by Francisco de Quevedo, read in Spanish by Epachuko
Non-Fiction
My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells, read by Denny Sayers
The Enemies of Books by William Blades, read by Maria Kaspar
English as She is Wrote by Anonymous, read by TriciaG
Drama
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Charles S. Brooks, play
Poetry
Sonnets of a Budding Bard by Nixon Waterman, group recording
Note: The books from this selection got downloaded x times in February 2019.
March 2019: Women's March
Fiction
Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann, read in German by Karlsson
Langs een omweg by A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint, read in Dutch by Anna Simon
Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green, group recording
La Comédie Humaine: La Femme de trente ans by Honoré de Balzac, read in French by Ezwa
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, group recording
Non-Fiction
War and Women by Mabel Annie Stobart, read by Celine Major
In Defense of Women by H. L Mencken, read by ML Cohen
Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells, read by Jim Locke
Drama
The Parson's Wedding by Thomas Killigrew, play
Poetry
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics Bliss Carman, read by Peter Yearsley
Note: The books from this selection got downloaded x times in March 2019.
