LibriVox is such an amazing service! One of those rare "this is what the internet was made for"/"humanity at its best" services that there's not that many of.
But the fact that you can not sort the books by popularity kinda baffles my mind.
There's a big range of quality of sound and narration skills when you let anyone at all be an audiobook narrator. Seeing the most popular books could help you find a good one.
Of possible interest, especially now for #BlackHistoryMonth. These are part of the #WPA recordings of former slaves (you know, back when the US Gov. did some seriously useful stuff).
This time I decided to draw a #sheep and use gradients despite not being very comfortable with them 🙈 The audiobook is "Catalogs to sleep by" a collection of texts aimed at helping you.. to #sleep! 💤
"Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth."
Time and the Gods (1906)
Lord Dunsany was born #OTD in 1878. "Time and the Gods", his second book, is considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. via @wikipedia
"SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters."