Where to Start with Mark Lawrence
- Best entry point → Red Sister
- Start the Broken Empire series → Prince of Thorns
- What fans keep coming back to → King of Thorns
- Best narrator for Mark Lawrence → Grey Sister
- Highest rated by listeners → Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor #3)
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Grey Sister
Book of the Ancestor • Book 2
Narrated by Heather O'Neill
★ 4.41 ABR Score (42.9K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (38.6K) ★ 4.68 Audible (4.3K)15h 47m listening time • Released 2018 - 2
Holy Sister
Book of the Ancestor • Book 3
Narrated by Heather O'Neill
★ 4.36 ABR Score (35.2K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (31.8K) ★ 4.66 Audible (3.4K) - 3
Emperor of Thorns
Broken Empire • Book 3
Narrated by James Clamp
★ 4.27 ABR Score (61.2K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (58.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (3.2K)13h 47m listening time • Released 2013 - 4
King of Thorns
Broken Empire • Book 2
Narrated by James Clamp
★ 4.23 ABR Score (74.4K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (71.0K) ★ 4.54 Audible (3.4K)13h 30m listening time • Released 2012 - 5
Red Sister
Book of the Ancestor • Book 1
Narrated by Heather O'Neill
★ 4.19 ABR Score (70.2K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (63.4K) ★ 4.47 Audible (6.8K)19h 21m listening time • Released 2017 - 6
Prince of Fools
The Red Queen's War • Book 1
Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
★ 4.02 ABR Score (39.8K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (35.5K) ★ 4.35 Audible (4.3K)14h 38m listening time • Released 2014 - 7
Unfettered III: New Tales
The Chathrand Voyage #Thasha's cure for cabin fever • Book 3
by Shawn Speakman, Tad Williams, Naomi Novik, Megan Lindholm, John Gwynne, David Anthony Durham, Callie Bates, Jason Denzel, Carrie Vaughn, Deborah A. Wolf, Anna Stephens, Patrick Swenson, Ramon Terrell, Peter Orullian, Terry Brooks, Lev Grossman, Seanan McGuire, Delilah S. Dawson, Mark Lawrence, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Todd Lockwood, Cat Rambo, Robert V.S. Redick, Ken Scholes, Scott Sigler, Anna Smith Spark, Marc Turner
Narrated by Khristine Hvam, Natasha Soudek, Mark Bramhall, Michael Page, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Andrew Wincott, Luke Daniels, Brian Nishii
★ 3.85 ABR Score (779 ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (571) ★ 4.37 Audible (208)27h 36m listening time • Released 2019 - 8
Prince of Thorns
Broken Empire • Book 1
Narrated by James Clamp
★ 3.82 ABR Score (129.6K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (124.2K) ★ 4.17 Audible (5.4K)9h 19m listening time • Released 2012Lawrence's debut is divisive and deliberately brutal — a boy prince narrating his own atrocities with black humor, in a post-apocalyptic fantasy that rewards patient readers.
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Unfettered II: New Tales
Gunnie Rose #0.0 - The Gunnie
by Shawn Speakman, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Michael J. Sullivan, Janny Wurts, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Mark Lawrence, Seanan McGuire, Peter Orullian, Aidan Moher, Erin Lindsey, John A. Pitts, Anthony Ryan, Scott Sigler, Django Wexler, Rachel Caine, Sarah Beth Durst, David Farland, Terry Brooks
Narrated by Sarah Coomes, Michael Kramer, Emily Woo Zeller, Nick Podehl, Erin Mallon, Tim Gerard Reynolds
★ 3.78 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.25 Audible (340)20h 17m listening time • Released 2017 - 10
Daughter of Crows
The Academy of Kindness • Book 1
Narrated by Olivia Dowd
★ 3.76 ABR Score (279 ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (278) ★ 5 Audible (1)14h 30m listening time • Released 2026 - 11
Unbound
Annwn Cycle #The Dead's Revenant • Book 1
by Shawn Speakman, Terry Brooks, Seanan McGuire, Mark Lawrence, Anthony Ryan, Tim Marquitz, Brian Staveley, Michael J. Sullivan, John Marco, Peter Orullian, Kat Richardson, Sam Sykes, Kristen Britain, Mazarkis Williams, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Harry Connolly, Delilah S. Dawson, David Anthony Durham, Jason M. Hough, Mary Robinette Kowal, Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by Dick Hill, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Nick Podehl, Allyson Johnson, Christian Rodska, Emily Bauer
★ 3.74 ABR Score (1.3K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.13 Audible (246)20h 55m listening time • Released 2016A star-studded anthology where twenty-three fantasy masters tell exactly the stories they want, each perfectly matched to a narrator who elevates the prose—Dick Hill's gravitas, Tim Gerard Reynolds' intensity—making this feel less like a collection and more like a curated experience.
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