Best Vivienne Leheny Audiobooks
Vivienne Leheny has built a quietly devoted following through her work on Lindsay Buroker's urban fantasy series, and if you've spent any time with the Death Before Dragons books — Sinister Magic, Tangled Truths, Battle Bond — you already know why. Her voice is crisp and grounded, with a dry wit that fits Buroker's action-heavy, self-aware heroines like a glove. She has a gift for making first-person fantasy narration feel genuinely inhabited rather than performed — like the character is actually thinking out loud, not reciting. Her range extends beyond genre comfort zones too, as her appearance on Unbound II alongside other narrators shows she can hold her own in anthology formats where stylistic consistency matters. Listeners who love female-led urban fantasy and want a narrator who leans into personality without overdoing it will find Leheny an easy favorite.
Where to Start with Vivienne Leheny
- New to Vivienne Leheny? Start here → Guess Again
- What fans keep coming back to → Sinister Magic: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series
- Best narrator–author pairing → Battle Bond: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series
Best Vivienne Leheny Audiobooks
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Guess Again
by Charlie Donlea
Narrated by Vivienne Leheny
★ 4.38 ABR Score (44.4K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (42.4K) ★ 4.53 Audible (2.0K)More about this pick
Ten years after a teenager vanished, her cold case explodes back to life, threatening to destroy the small Wisconsin town that never recovered from her disappearance.
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Tangled Truths: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series
Death Before Dragons • Book 3
by Lindsay Buroker
Narrated by Vivienne Leheny
★ 4.35 ABR Score (696 ratings)★ 4.8 Audible (696) - 3
Battle Bond: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series
Death Before Dragons • Book 2
by Lindsay Buroker
Narrated by Vivienne Leheny
★ 4.32 ABR Score (717 ratings)★ 4.77 Audible (717) - 4
Sinister Magic: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series
Death Before Dragons • Book 1
by Lindsay Buroker
Narrated by Vivienne Leheny
★ 4.21 ABR Score (927 ratings)★ 4.64 Audible (927) - 5
Unbound II: Tales
Unbound • Book 2
by Shawn Speakman - editor
Narrated by James Fouhey, Anna Smith Spark, Vivienne Leheny, Scott Brick, Natasha Soudek, Brian Holsopple, Adenrele Ojo, Ellen Archer, Travis Baldree, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Laura Horowitz, Hillary Huber
★ 3.72 ABR Score (7 ratings)★ 4.43 Audible (7)More about this pick
Seventeen original stories span genres freely, including a Dune tale by Brian Herbert, with multiple narrators bringing each unique vision to life.
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Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
by Brian Merchant, Claire L. Evans, Cory Doctorow, Sam Biddle, James Bridle, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Tobias S. Buckell, Tori Cárdenas, Shannon Chamberlain, Chloe Cole, Nan Craig, Malon Edwards, Omar El Akkad, Meg Elison, Rose Eveleth, Fernando A. Flores, Paul Ford, Sarah Gailey, Peter Milne Greiner, Malcolm Harris, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Eric Holthaus, Andrew Dana Hudson, Sahil Lavingia, Tao Lin, Geoff Manaugh, Tim Maughan, Joanne McNeil, Lincoln Michel, Sam J. Miller, Lia Swope Mitchell, Gus Moreno, Kevin Nguyen, Russell Nichols, Frankie Ochoa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Laurie Penny, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Robin Sloan, Emily J. Smith, Julian Mortimer Smith, Bruce Sterling, Seamus Sullivan, Wole Talabi, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Ellen Ullman, Debbie Urbanski, Jeff Vandermeer, Marlee Jane Ward, Elvia Wilk, Max Wynne, E. Lily Yu, Jess Zimmerman
Narrated by Hillary Huber, Chris Henry Coffey, André Santana, Graham Halstead, Rasha Zamamiri, Bahni Turpin, Stefan Rudnicki, Janina Edwards, Tim Campbell, Chelsea Stephens, Feodor Chin, Kyla Garcia, Vivienne Leheny, Mark Bramhall, Full Cast
★ 3.69 ABR Score (317 ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (283) ★ 4.15 Audible (34)More about this pick
VICE's speculative fiction anthology predicts our technological future through visceral near-future stories. The full cast approach suits the diverse voices exploring decay, anxiety, and unexpected transformation.