Neo Noir


Certain Dark Things
Kiss Me, Judas
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
The Contortionist's Handbook
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Zero Saints
The New Black
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
Dermaphoria
Herniated Roots
Gravesend
No Country for Old Men
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
Shutter Island
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Getaway by Jim Thompson
Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
118 books — 34 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerA CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Crime Pulps
162 books — 38 voters

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarEven Though I Knew the End by C.L. PolkAll Systems Red by Martha WellsRogue Protocol by Martha WellsArtificial Condition by Martha Wells
Noir but Weird
47 books — 6 voters

In Los Angeles everybody wears a mask, telling stories that aren't quite the truth but aren't quite a lie. The warm weather makes it easy to stay. The strange thing is: you can feel your soul being bought and sold, little by little, piece by piece. You feel it dying, being taken away from you, dripping out of you. Especially at night, when it's a dark, starless sky. Night as you know it, and night as we know it...here...are two different things. ...more
H.L. Sudler, Night as We Know It

Philip  Elliott
Nobody knows Los Angeles until they’ve been entranced by it, corrupted by it, cast out from it, and returned to it on their knees begging it to save them, and Richie knew Los Angeles. He knew it better than anyone. This time he would tame the beast and make it his own—this time he would win.
Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

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