162 books
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38 voters
Noir Books
Showing 1-50 of 24,031
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 1095 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,873 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 825 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,868 ratings — published 1930
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 593 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,113 ratings — published 1934
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 517 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 100,388 ratings — published 1987
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 508 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,956 ratings — published 1953
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 496 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,807 ratings — published 1940
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 482 times as noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,138 ratings — published 1936
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,127 ratings — published 1934
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 387 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,446 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 349 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,908 ratings — published 1943
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 339 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 40,807 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 29,967 ratings — published 1952
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 323 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,191 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 279 times as noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,384 ratings — published 1949
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as noir)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,679 ratings — published 1947
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 239 times as noir)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,112 ratings — published 2002
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 224 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,015 ratings — published 1990
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 44,622 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,958 ratings — published 1931
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 218 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,151 ratings — published 1988
Velvet Was the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as noir)
avg rating 3.51 — 31,359 ratings — published 2021
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 200 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,665 ratings — published 1995
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 39,803 ratings — published 1950
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,404 ratings — published 1962
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,494 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as noir)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,685 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 174 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,965 ratings — published 1964
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 173 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,321 ratings — published 1958
Mildred Pierce (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,980 ratings — published 1941
Queenpin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 166 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,019 ratings — published 2007
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,241 ratings — published 1935
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,105 ratings — published 1991
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as noir)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,504 ratings — published 1946
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 151 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,336 ratings — published 1992
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 150 times as noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 387,683 ratings — published 2000
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,440 ratings — published 2009
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 145 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,199 ratings — published 1950
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as noir)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,745 ratings — published 1956
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as noir)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,498,793 ratings — published 2005
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as noir)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,883 ratings — published 1953
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 81,231 ratings — published 2009
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as noir)
avg rating 3.82 — 20,182 ratings — published 2010
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,783 ratings — published 1994
Die a Little (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as noir)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,922 ratings — published 2005
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 127 times as noir)
avg rating 3.95 — 44,769 ratings — published 2012
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,947 ratings — published 2012
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 261,874 ratings — published 2005
The Bride Wore Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,896 ratings — published 1940
The Getaway (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as noir)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,650 ratings — published 1958
“The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
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