One of the reasons I started LibriVox, I think, was so that I could make an audio recording of “The Dead,” by James Joyce, from his collection Dubliners.
It is a story of such grace and skill; the build up slow and good-humoured and banal, but when that last section finally comes, it contains so much [...]

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Four women leave dreary post-WWI London for a month in an Italian castle. Highly recommended by listeners. Read by Diana Kiesners.
Multilingual Poetry Collection 004.
Poems in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
A wonderful recording of one of Dickens’ masterpieces. [...]

Thanks to the good people at Archive.org, we are now beginning to add the new items that you have been waiting for! :D
A number of new works have already been cataloged thanks to our intrepid world-wide and sleep deprived MC volunteers, and they’ll continue to chip away at the backlog just as fast as they [...]

Eager listeners may have noticed we haven’t put much new in the catalog recently. Fear not! The mighty armies of LibriVoxateers are still producing hours of audio daily.
However, the Internet Archive (the folks who host LibriVox’s files) are making some changes to the way audio files are derived and presented. Once the dust settles at [...]

A new selection of recordings for you to try!
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. This is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal, read by various readers.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Different characters (and readers) in [...]

Hey Librivox
I just wanted to express my gratitude to all those amazing people out there who have taken the trouble to record so many wonderful books. Whilst not everyone’s reading style is to my taste I respect the effort that they put in. I have downloaded many books from Librivox and have spent hours [...]

Here are this week’s ideas for listening:
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
The [...]

Every week or so, we will be selecting a number of recordings that we think you may enjoy, including classics and less well-known items.
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Howards End by E. M. Forster
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #94 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 18:19
This week Redaer, Great Plains and icyjumbo talk about their favourite audio of 2008, while Cloud Mountain wishes LibriVoxers well in 2009.
Mentioned titles include:
http://librivox.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream-by-william-shakespeare/
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13197 (Faust, in German, still needing readers)
http://librivox.org/captain-blood-by-rafael-sabatini/
http://librivox.org/elusive-isabel-by-jacques-futrelle/
http://podiobooks.com/title/singularity
http://podiobooks.com/title/the-immortals
http://podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=solar+clipper
http://librivox.org/the-elusive-pimpernel-by-baroness-emmuska-orczy/
http://librivox.org/el-dorado-by-baroness-orczy/
http://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-by-mark-twain-2/
The Bloopettes are Robinsgirl and TriciaG, with a jingle from Bosco, [...]

For our worldwide community, here are our New Year’s picks for your cold winter evenings or hot sunny days:
Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Die Elixiere des Teufels by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Man Who [...]