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Hard Boiled Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,703
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 150 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 169,998 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,567 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 89 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,286 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 85 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,267 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 77 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,056 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 70 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,473 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,794 ratings — published 1942
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,658 ratings — published 1934
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,123 ratings — published 1949
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 39,137 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 49,308 ratings — published 1934
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 354,064 ratings — published 1997
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,843 ratings — published 1988
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,125 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 98,213 ratings — published 1987
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,212 ratings — published 1958
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,947 ratings — published 1962
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,805 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,817 ratings — published 1931
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,172 ratings — published 1952
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,567 ratings — published 1929
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 60,900 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 166,944 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,307 ratings — published 1944
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 143,325 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,831 ratings — published 1947
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,658 ratings — published 1964
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,547 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,618 ratings — published 1950
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,635 ratings — published 1930
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,459 ratings — published 1976
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,351 ratings — published 1963
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,806 ratings — published 1998
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,462 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,754 ratings — published 1978
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 192,769 ratings — published 1982
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,131 ratings — published 1992
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,938 ratings — published 2002
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,809 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,247 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,187 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,626 ratings — published 2010
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,676 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,128 ratings — published 1995
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,040 ratings — published 1987
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,186 ratings — published 1996
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,721 ratings — published 1963
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,030 ratings — published 1971
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,270 ratings — published 1947
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,642 ratings — published 1963
“I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me”
― Playback
― Playback
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
― Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
― Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
