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Hard Boiled Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,628
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 167,750 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 115,001 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,640 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 84 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,517 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 79 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,624 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 70 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,917 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,282 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,759 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,082 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,976 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 48,352 ratings — published 1934
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 349,585 ratings — published 1997
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,060 ratings — published 1950
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,446 ratings — published 1988
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 95,691 ratings — published 1987
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,445 ratings — published 1962
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,591 ratings — published 1931
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,042 ratings — published 1958
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,325 ratings — published 1936
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 25,836 ratings — published 1952
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,478 ratings — published 1929
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 163,842 ratings — published 1998
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 59,605 ratings — published 2005
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,265 ratings — published 1944
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 141,127 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,714 ratings — published 1947
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,244 ratings — published 1964
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,535 ratings — published 1950
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,605 ratings — published 1930
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,164 ratings — published 1976
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,030 ratings — published 1990
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,194 ratings — published 1963
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,006 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,649 ratings — published 1978
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,831 ratings — published 1992
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,210 ratings — published 1998
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 114,548 ratings — published 2002
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 191,607 ratings — published 1982
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,096 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,192 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,087 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.75 — 25,232 ratings — published 2010
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,630 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,078 ratings — published 1995
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,964 ratings — published 1992
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,557 ratings — published 1987
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 72,764 ratings — published 1996
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,585 ratings — published 1963
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,724 ratings — published 1971
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,497 ratings — published 1963
“A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
“I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors”
― Playback
― Playback
