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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 149 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,827 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,566 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 90 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,072 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 86 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,255 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 82 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,606 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 74 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,120 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,364 ratings — published 1942
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,336 ratings — published 1934
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 53 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,518 ratings — published 1949
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,325 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,567 ratings — published 1934
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 39 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,248 ratings — published 1950
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,317 ratings — published 1988
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 359,242 ratings — published 1997
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,230 ratings — published 1987
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 35 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,396 ratings — published 1958
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,327 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,030 ratings — published 1931
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,623 ratings — published 1962
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,687 ratings — published 1929
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,487 ratings — published 1952
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 62,436 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 170,296 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,352 ratings — published 1944
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 145,945 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,949 ratings — published 1947
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,763 ratings — published 1976
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,126 ratings — published 1964
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,672 ratings — published 1930
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,542 ratings — published 1963
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,519 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,701 ratings — published 1950
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,625 ratings — published 1998
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,986 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,895 ratings — published 1978
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,428 ratings — published 1982
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,313 ratings — published 1949
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,720 ratings — published 2002
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,427 ratings — published 1992
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,743 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,309 ratings — published 1951
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 26,037 ratings — published 2010
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,815 ratings — published 1987
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,765 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,138 ratings — published 1995
The Mourner (Parker, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,852 ratings — published 1963
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,732 ratings — published 1992
I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 38,238 ratings — published 1992
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,699 ratings — published 1996
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,411 ratings — published 1971
“Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“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
