Where to Start with Malcolm Hillgartner
- New to Malcolm Hillgartner? Start here → The Canterbury Tales
- What fans keep coming back to → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
- Highest rated by listeners → Kissinger: A Biography
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Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth: 8 Divine Teachings from a Near Death Experience
by Tommy Rosa, Stephen T. Sinatra
Narrated by Robertson Dean, Malcolm Hillgartner
★ 4.05 ABR Score (646 ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (266) ★ 4.74 Audible (380)More about this pick
Robertson Dean and Malcolm Hillgartner embody both sides of an unexpected synthesis: spiritual revelation meets integrative medicine, and somehow it coheres.
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Kissinger: A Biography
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
★ 4.03 ABR Score (6.4K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (5.3K) ★ 4.48 Audible (1.0K)More about this pick
Isaacson traces how a refugee became America's most admired and reviled figure, exploring the contradictions that made Henry Kissinger both celebrated and despised. Malcolm Hillgartner handles the complex political narrative across this massive biographical scope with authority.
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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Narrated by Julia Campbell, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hillgartner, Arte Johnson, Jay Karnes, Ray Porter, Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver
★ 3.96 ABR Score (9.6K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (8.4K) ★ 4.17 Audible (1.1K)More about this pick
Eight narrators elevate Matheson's paranoia masterpieces. The psychological horror that defined the Twilight Zone still beats modern scares.
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Middle Falls Time Travel Omnibus: Books 4-6
Middle Falls Time Travel #4-6 • Book 16
by Shawn Inmon, Tamara Marston, Charlie Thurston, Adam Verner
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner, Luke Daniels, Scott Brick
★ 3.91 ABR Score (418 ratings)★ 4.68 Goodreads (387) ★ 4.81 Audible (31)More about this pick
Three standalone time travel stories explore different characters and eras, from a man born with impossible powers to a woman seeking emancipation across time. Multiple skilled narrators handle the varied tones and time periods expertly.
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Merchant Kings
by Stephen R. Bown
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
★ 3.79 ABR Score (899 ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (833) ★ 4.55 Audible (66)More about this pick
Six merchant-adventurers built global monopolies from the 17th to 19th centuries, ruling vast territories and generating unprecedented wealth through conquest and commerce. Malcolm Hillgartner brings these larger-than-life figures to vivid life as they expand their far-flung empires.
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21st Century Dead
Dead of Night #1.1 Jack and Jill
by Christopher Golden, John M. McIlveen, Rio Youers
Narrated by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Bernadette Dunne, Richard Powers, Kirby Heyborne, Malcolm Hillgartner, Chris Patton, John Pruden, Renée Raudman, Stefan Rudnicki
★ 3.49 ABR Score (897 ratings)★ 3.45 Goodreads (790) ★ 3.75 Audible (107)More about this pick
This zombie anthology spans from Robopocalypse tie-ins to unpublished Stephen King, with ten different narrators handling each story's unique voice and terror.
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, J.U. Nicolson
Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Jay Carnes, Ray Porter, John Lee, Malcolm Hillgartner, Ralph Cosham, Simon Vance
★ 3.46 ABR Score (239.5K ratings)★ 3.53 Goodreads (238.9K) ★ 3.63 Audible (606)More about this pick
A rotating cast of seven narrators brings Chaucer's medieval voices alive with distinct personalities and accents, making the fourteenth-century banter feel less dusty textbook and more like eavesdropping on real people.
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