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Hard Boiled Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,753
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 150 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,877 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,870 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 90 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,808 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 86 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,960 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 81 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,447 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 74 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,910 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,192 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 53 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,384 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,127 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 40,808 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,117 ratings — published 1934
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 39 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,199 ratings — published 1950
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 357,498 ratings — published 1997
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,152 ratings — published 1988
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 100,392 ratings — published 1987
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 35 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,321 ratings — published 1958
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,138 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,958 ratings — published 1931
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,404 ratings — published 1962
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,638 ratings — published 1929
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 29,968 ratings — published 1952
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 61,898 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 169,142 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,330 ratings — published 1944
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 145,097 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,919 ratings — published 1947
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,663 ratings — published 1976
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,966 ratings — published 1964
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,657 ratings — published 1930
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,017 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,681 ratings — published 1950
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,494 ratings — published 1963
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,382 ratings — published 1998
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,805 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,835 ratings — published 1978
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 193,903 ratings — published 1982
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,113 ratings — published 2002
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,336 ratings — published 1992
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,450 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,294 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,270 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,901 ratings — published 2010
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,533 ratings — published 1987
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,747 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,665 ratings — published 1995
The Mourner (Parker, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,806 ratings — published 1963
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,586 ratings — published 1992
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,538 ratings — published 1996
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,282 ratings — published 1971
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,680 ratings — published 1947
“Limited no longer by his own capacities, he had an odds advantage that he had never had as a competitor. He knew he could last. But his fighters were less dependable. Some trained one day and laid off two, fought once and quit, lost their timing, came back, struggled into condition, gasped and missed and were beaten, or won several bouts and got married, or moved, or were drafted, joined the navy or went to jail, were bleeders, suffered headaches, saw double or broke their hands.”
― Fat City
― Fat City
“She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word. I helped her off with her raincoat. She smelled very nice. She had a pair of legs - so far as I could determine - that were not painful to look at. She wore night sheer stockings. I stared at them rather intently, especially when she crossed her legs and held out a cigarette to be lighted”
― Playback
― Playback
