Forgotten Classics

A podcast featuring great authors and stories that should be better known. A little about the authors and their stories, with samples. I recently realized that an old post listing my favorite LibriVox readers has mysteriously disappeared. Meaning, of course, that I must have inadvertently deleted it.

However, I can rebuild!

My Favorite Readers

With my particular favorites of the books they’ve read — though this may tell you more about the sorts of books I read than about their talent.

I do want to mention also that I’ve seen people complain about collaborative readings. It is true that you get varying quality throughout a book that way, but I don’t mind generally. Hey, it is a free audiobook! And I’ve found some very good readers that way.

– David Barnes – The Canterville Ghost, The Club of Queer Trades, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

– David Clarke – Count of Monte Cristo

– Rowdy Delany – The White Moll

– Lee Elliott – The Angel of Terror, Greener Than You Think

– Ruth Golding – Cleek of Scotland Yard series, A House to Let by Dickens et al., The Magic City, and The Magic World.

– Tadhg Hynes – His David Copperfield and Oliver Twist readings helped me keep my sanity during a very difficult couple of weeks.

– Elizabeth Klett – Carmilla, The Machine Stops

– Dawn Larsen – Parnassus on Wheels

– Gregg Margarite – he read lots of stories that went into SF story collections so no one thing stands out to me over the others.

– Andy Minter – The Prisoner of Zenda, The Princess and the Goblin

– Mark Nelson – oh so many, especially The Green Odyssey, Lone Star Planet, Crime and Punishment, Talents Incorporated

– Mil Nicholson – she only does Dickens and they are all good.

– Maire Rhode – The Adventures of Jimmie Dale

– Karen Savage – The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Secret Garden, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

– J.M. Smallheer – The Green Jacket, The Fortieth Door, The House of a Thousand Candles

– Mark Smith – Ben Hur, Treasure Island

– Peter Yearsley – Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Grim Tales

A couple of other resources for favorite readers may be found here:

– Other British Readers on LibriVox.Written by Ruth Golding, herself one of my favorite readers, it is chock-full of good recommendations.

– Recommended LibriVox Recordings Part I and Part II – from Worthwhile Books.