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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Marty (11 Lists)



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
767 books — 1,012 voters
Griftopia by Matt TaibbiDebt by David Graeber
Corporatocracy: Good, Bad, Truth, Fiction
259 books — 87 voters

Griftopia by Matt Taibbi13 Bankers by Simon JohnsonECONned by Yves Smith
Understanding the Financial Crisis 2008
169 books — 254 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
1,016 books — 1,242 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
1,238 books — 1,139 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
1,482 books — 1,397 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
2,286 books — 4,793 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
7,215 books — 28,375 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
7,446 books — 16,348 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
3,155 books — 3,682 voters