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The Hunter by Richard StarkDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyThe Guards by Ken BruenBerlin Noir by Philip KerrThe Outfit by Richard Stark
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
779 books — 1,021 voters
Griftopia by Matt TaibbiDebt by David Graeber
Corporatocracy: Good, Bad, Truth, Fiction
260 books — 87 voters

Griftopia by Matt Taibbi13 Bankers by Simon JohnsonECONned by Yves Smith
Understanding the Financial Crisis 2008
170 books — 255 voters
The Human Factor by Graham GreeneSmiley's People by John le CarréDark Voyage by Alan FurstThe Mask of Dimitrios by Eric AmblerGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Espionage
1,028 books — 1,067 voters

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyRatking by Michael DibdinRose by Martin Cruz SmithThe Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Detective Fiction
1,244 books — 1,143 voters
Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellThe Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Price by Arthur MillerKiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Literature of Social Change
435 books — 314 voters

Sweet Soul Music by Peter GuralnickWhere Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,505 books — 1,424 voters
The World at Night by Alan FurstRose by Martin Cruz SmithKingdom of Shadows by Alan FurstDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyA Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
Best Historical Mystery
2,301 books — 4,834 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesEmpire Falls by Richard RussoThe Plot Against America by Philip RothNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,273 books — 28,374 voters
Double Indemnity by James M. CainDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyGet Shorty by Elmore LeonardThe Ax by Donald E. Westlake
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,482 books — 16,387 voters

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothAlways Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter MosleyUnderworld by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,182 books — 3,685 voters