Recordings of Books on the Ambleside List 5

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Under way 9 July 2013, but very few books on the Year 11 list are in the Public Domain.

Introduction

Listeners have requested a list of LibriVox recordings of books recommended by Ambleside Online for use with homeschooling. Anyone looking for audio books for children will find plenty of ideas on this page.

This is the fifth part, covering year 11. The first part, covering years 0 - 4, may be found here. The second part, covering Years 5 - 8, may be found here. The third part, covering Year 9, is here. The fourth part, covering Year 10 is here.

The lists here only include books on the main booklists on Ambleside Online, not the various personal recommendations. If you would like to browse all LibriVox recordings of books, stories and poems for children, please follow this link.

Please note that many books on the Ambleside list are not in the Public Domain, and are therefore not available to record for LibriVox.

Booklist for Year 11

LibriVox recordings

Note: Very few books on the Ambleside list apart from a few novels and some short stories are in the Public Domain.


The Bible

Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version. For recordings of all versions, please see this search.

History

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton.

Speeches

Speech on Prosecuting the War with Germany, 1940 (Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat) speech of Winston Churchill, May 13, 1940 (Section 7).
Their Finest Hour speech of Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940 (Section 15).

Geography

South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest Shackleton.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain.
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock.

Government and Economics

Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall.

Citizenship

Plutarch's Lives. N.B. This is the Bernadotte Perrin translation.





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In the Public Domain, but not yet recorded

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible Text at ccel.org. Warning: this is huge.
Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, ed. Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs. Text on Project Gutenberg. (Not PD for Europe)
The Man with the Muck Rake speech by Teddy Roosevelt - April 15, 1906. Text at americanrhetoric.com.
War Message speech by Woodrow Wilson 2 April 1917. Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Douglas MacArthur's farewell to Congress April 19, 1951. Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Richard Nixon's "Silent Majority" speech November 3, 1969 Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's opening statement to House Judiciary Committee Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Richard Nixon's resignation August 8, 1974 Text at americanrhetoric.com.
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Fabre, Poet of Science by Dr. Georges Victor Legros. Text on Project Gutenberg.
The Making of An American by Jacob Riis. Text on Project Gutenberg.
In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson. Text on Project Gutenberg.

Not in the Public Domain

The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul.
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Pleasures of God by John Piper.
Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles Cowman (pub. 1925 and copyright renewed).
A History of the Twentieth Century The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Martin Gilbert.
Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson.
Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison.
A Basic History of the United States by Clarence B. Carson.
A Short History of Western Civilization by Sullivan et al.
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman.
Only Yesterday by Frederick Allen.
Some of Us Survived by Kerop Bedoukian.
Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes: Country in Transition, 1896-1898 by A. K. Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933.
Edward VIII's Abdication Speech - December 11, 1936.
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig's farewell to baseball speech July 4, 1939.
The Men Behind Hitler A German warning to the world by Bernhard Schreiber.
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler.
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw.
Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor address December 8, 1941.
Dwight David Eisenhower--Supreme Allied Commander broadcasts D-Day invasion order June 5, 1944.
Franklin Roosevelt D-Day Prayer June 6, 1944.
Dwight David Eisenhower--Supreme Allied Commander on victory June 12, 1945.
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.
Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, ed. by Kris Shepard and Clayborne Carson.
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King.
I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King, Jr..
The Hungarian Revolt by Richard Lettis and William Morris.
Victim: Imprisonment Because of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Arpad Szilagyi.
A World Split Apart by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - Harvard speech.
John F. Kennedy's Inauguration January 20, 1961 "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
Douglas MacArthur's address at West Point May 12, 1962 "Duty, honor, country." John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" June 26, 1963,
Martin Luther King's "I've been to the mountaintop" March 3, 1968 Edward Kennedy at Robert Kennedy's funeral June 8, 1968 "I see things that never were and say "why not?"
Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
Gerald Ford's pardoning of Richard Nixon September 8, 1974.
Ronald Reagan--D-Day Memorial - Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1984.
Ronald Reagan--Challenger Disaster Address January 28, 1986.
Ronald Reagan--Brandenberg Gate June 12, 1987.
Barbara Bush at Wellesley 1990.
George H. W. Bush 41st President--Announces Attack on Iraq January 16, 1991.
And probably all the other speeches on the list.
Georges Vanier: Soldier - The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919 edited by Deborah Cowley.
Black Boy by Richard Wright.
Witness by Whittaker Chambers.
Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.
When Hell Was In Session by Jeremiah A. Denton Jr.
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng.
Mao Tse-Tung and His China by Albert Marrin.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes.
Nearly all the books on the geography options page.
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
Books by Marvin Olasky.
Psychological Seduction by William Kirk Kilpatrick.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork.
Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell.
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek.
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese.
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
Modern Fascism by Gene Edward Veith.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque.
The Chosen by Chaim Potok.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.