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Hardboiled Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 168,518 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,500 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,853 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 39 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,765 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,772 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,086 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,424 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,853 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,287 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,452 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,634 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,124 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,584 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,204 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,086 ratings — published 1991
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,499 ratings — published 1929
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 48,691 ratings — published 1934
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,099 ratings — published 1958
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,080 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,444 ratings — published 1987
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 26,460 ratings — published 1952
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,011 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,614 ratings — published 1930
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,633 ratings — published 1957
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,264 ratings — published 1976
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,562 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,189 ratings — published 1990
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,761 ratings — published 1947
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,712 ratings — published 1956
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,633 ratings — published 1963
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,545 ratings — published 1963
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,376 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,636 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,245 ratings — published 1963
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,604 ratings — published 1990
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,534 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,810 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,766 ratings — published 1952
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,312 ratings — published 1927
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,480 ratings — published 1966
The Gutter and the Grave (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,729 ratings — published 1958
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,521 ratings — published 1996
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,987 ratings — published 1993
The Barbarous Coast (Lew Archer, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,761 ratings — published 1956
The Galton Case (Lew Archer, #8)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,263 ratings — published 1959
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,038 ratings — published 1947
The Getaway (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,939 ratings — published 1958
Pick-Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,259 ratings — published 1955
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,149 ratings — published 1964
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,280 ratings — published 1944
“Frank, have you seen today’s obits?” Gerald asked.
“Never look at them,” I replied. “I only read the comics, sports, and horoscopes.”
“Can’t you see I’m being serious?”
“Who bit the dust, then?”
― Iceman
“Never look at them,” I replied. “I only read the comics, sports, and horoscopes.”
“Can’t you see I’m being serious?”
“Who bit the dust, then?”
― Iceman
“Nobody knows Los Angeles until they’ve been entranced by it, corrupted by it, cast out from it, and returned to it on their knees begging it to save them, and Richie knew Los Angeles. He knew it better than anyone. This time he would tame the beast and make it his own—this time he would win.”
― Porno Valley
― Porno Valley
