Where to Start with Lisa Flanagan
- New to Lisa Flanagan? Start here → Horse
- What fans keep coming back to → Spinning Silver
- Highest rated by listeners → The Book of Lost Friends
- Best narrator–author pairing → Buried Deep and Other Stories
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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
Narrated by Sophie Amoss, Lisa Flanagan, Dominic Hoffman, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, Bahni Turpin, Lisa Wingate
★ 4.56 ABR Score (135.7K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (123.9K) ★ 4.72 Audible (11.8K)More about this pick
The ensemble cast transforms this post-Civil War saga into something transcendent, each narrator embodying their character so distinctly you forget you're listening to a book rather than witnessing history unfold.
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Spinning Silver
The Mortal Instruments
by Naomi Novik
Narrated by Lisa Flanagan
★ 4.54 ABR Score (163.3K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (154.1K) ★ 4.68 Audible (9.2K)More about this pick
Lisa Flanagan weaves together three women's voices in Novik's Rumpelstiltskin retelling where a moneylender's daughter can turn silver into gold.
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Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, Katherine Littrell, Michael Obiora
★ 4.50 ABR Score (219.5K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (212.5K) ★ 4.66 Audible (7.0K)More about this pick
Three timelines converge around Lexington, America's greatest racehorse: his 19th-century racing career, his enslaved groom, and modern art historians uncovering his story. The ensemble cast brings depth to this sweeping tale of art, horses, and racial injustice across American history.
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Buried Deep and Other Stories
by Naomi Novik
Narrated by Frankie Corzo, Nicholas Guy Smith, Imani Jade Powers, Simon Vance, Elizabeth Knowelden, Saskia Maarleveld, Lauren Fortgang, Ell Potter, Billie Fulford-Brown, Steve West, Lisa Flanagan, Bronwen Price, Anisha Dadia, Naomi Novik
★ 4.16 ABR Score (6.9K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (98)More about this pick
Fourteen different narrators bring Novik's multiverse to life, from Temeraire's dragons to Scholomance's gothic halls, each voice suited to their fantastical realm.
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Simply Lies
Mickey Gibson • Book 1
Narrated by Lisa Flanagan, Corey Carthew
★ 4.04 ABR Score (61.0K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (58.7K) ★ 4.1 Audible (2.3K)More about this pick
Former detective Mickey Gibson faces off against a master manipulator in a psychological chess match where truth becomes weaponized.
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The Dinosaur Tourist
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Narrated by Neil Hellegers, Xe Sands, Tavia Gilbert, Lisa Flanagan, Paul Woodson, Lauren Ezzo, Kevin Kenerly, Chelsea Stephens
★ 3.57 ABR Score (142 ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (138) ★ 4.75 Audible (4)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast elevates Kiernan's unsettling short fiction collection, with each narrator embodying the creeping wrongness that makes these nineteen tales linger long after they end.
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