Staff Picks 2016

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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 2015

January 2016: American Graffiti

Fiction

That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green, read by Dawn Larsen

Angelina by Rafael Delgado, read by Karen Savage in Spanish

The Avalanche by Gertrude Atherton, read by Lynn Thompson

La Chasse-Galerie by Honoré Beaugrand, group recording n French

Contending Forces by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkinss, read by Margaret Espalliat

Non-Fiction

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Stephen Leacock, read by Sean Michael Hogan

From the Deep Woods to Civilization by Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman), read by Laura Victoria

The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt, read by Bob Neufeld

Drama

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, dramatic reading

Poetry

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, group recording

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 23141 times in January 2016.


February 2016: From Russia With Love

Fiction

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, group recording

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, read by Valery Yakovlev in Russian

A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, read by tovarisch

Satan's Diary by Leonid Andreyev, read by Crln Yldz Ksr

Die Lady Makbeth des Mzensker Landkreises by Nikolai Leskov, read by Friedrich in German

Non-Fiction

All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov, read by Expatriate

Ice March by Roman Gul, read by Mark Chulsky in Russian

God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin, read by Carl Manchester

Drama

Der Baer by Anton Chekhov, dramatic reading in German

Poetry

Kamen, by Osip Mandelstam, read by Mark Chulsky in Russian

Note: The books from this selection got downloaded 3411 times in February 2016.