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Hard Boiled Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,659
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 147 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 168,993 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,835 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,001 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 85 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,911 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 77 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,840 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 69 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,207 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,520 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,928 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,391 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,035 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 48,884 ratings — published 1934
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 352,149 ratings — published 1997
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,609 ratings — published 1988
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,091 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,965 ratings — published 1987
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,126 ratings — published 1958
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,680 ratings — published 1962
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,681 ratings — published 1931
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,538 ratings — published 1936
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 26,907 ratings — published 1952
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,518 ratings — published 1929
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 60,337 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 165,589 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,289 ratings — published 1944
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 142,340 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,781 ratings — published 1947
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,473 ratings — published 1964
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,285 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,578 ratings — published 1950
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,619 ratings — published 1930
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,324 ratings — published 1976
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,260 ratings — published 1963
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,234 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,703 ratings — published 1978
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 192,224 ratings — published 1982
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,958 ratings — published 1992
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,484 ratings — published 1998
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,339 ratings — published 2002
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,426 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,219 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,136 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,437 ratings — published 2010
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,655 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,053 ratings — published 1995
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,814 ratings — published 1987
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 72,988 ratings — published 1996
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,662 ratings — published 1963
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,865 ratings — published 1971
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,580 ratings — published 1963
Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,899 ratings — published 1971
“Common sense says go home and forget it, no money coming in. Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up”
― Playback
― Playback
“He held my gun in his delicate, lovely hand. He held it pointed at my chest.
'I could teach you,' he said in his soft voice. 'But to what purpose? A dirty little man in a dirty little world. One spot of brightness on you and you would still be that. Is it not so?' He smiled, so beautifully.
I swung at his smile with everything I had left.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
'I could teach you,' he said in his soft voice. 'But to what purpose? A dirty little man in a dirty little world. One spot of brightness on you and you would still be that. Is it not so?' He smiled, so beautifully.
I swung at his smile with everything I had left.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
