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 → As a Man Thinketh
- What fans keep coming back to → Guess Again
- Best narrator–author pairing → Sinister Magic: 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)9h 12m listening time • Released 2025 - 2
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)8h 34m listening time • Released 2020 - 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)10h 1m listening time • Released 2020 - 4
As a Man Thinketh
by James Allen
Narrated by Adelia Saunders, Barrie Kreinik, Carly Robins, Eleanor Hutchins, Emily Bauer, Emily Lawrence, Fiona Hardingham, Greer Morrison, Joel Fotinos, Natalie Naudus, Sophie Amoss, Thérèse Plummer, Vivienne Leheny, Xe Sands
★ 4.28 ABR Score (97.5K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (97.4K) ★ 4.65 Audible (130)2h 57m listening time • Released 2019 - 5
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)9h 35m listening time • Released 2020 - 6
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
★ 3.73 ABR Score (7 ratings)★ 4.43 Audible (7)18h 19m listening time • Released 2023A stellar ensemble cast elevates 17 unfiltered stories from fantasy's boldest voices—Scott Brick, Tim Gerard Reynolds, and others nail the tonal shifts between dark epics and intimate character moments.
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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)14h 23m listening time • Released 2022