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Hardboiled Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,954 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,921 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,833 ratings — published 1940
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 44,698 ratings — published 2010
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,979 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,455 ratings — published 1929
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 44,836 ratings — published 2012
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,926 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,206 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,395 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,148 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 22 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,151 ratings — published 1936
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 100,489 ratings — published 1987
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,968 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,275 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,419 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,295 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,133 ratings — published 1991
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,156 ratings — published 1934
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,871 ratings — published 1957
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,640 ratings — published 1929
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,673 ratings — published 1976
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 30,014 ratings — published 1952
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,922 ratings — published 1947
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,326 ratings — published 1958
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,202 ratings — published 1950
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 40,866 ratings — published 1990
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,159 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,658 ratings — published 1930
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.82 — 20,241 ratings — published 2010
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,686 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,037 ratings — published 1990
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,708 ratings — published 1995
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,747 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.63 — 369,633 ratings — published 2018
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,827 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,872 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,979 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,694 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,501 ratings — published 1963
Angels Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,952 ratings — published 2006
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,540 ratings — published 1966
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,405 ratings — published 1963
The Gutter and the Grave (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,768 ratings — published 1958
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,626 ratings — published 1996
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,173 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,942 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,838 ratings — published 1952
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,687 ratings — published 1947
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Vintage Crime)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,322 ratings — published 1927
“It’s so easy it’s scary. Anybody—even you—can veer into a wrong orbit. Mine? Death Row is at the Three Toes Correctional Center, Virginia. But I got a raw deal, and I’ll holler it until my last breath.”
― Wrong Orbits
― Wrong Orbits
“My twin goals are to entertain the audience and help them. My crime fiction is based on my longtime interest in true crime, and because of that, realism and logic are critical.”
― Only One Thing Stays the Same
― Only One Thing Stays the Same
