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Hard Boiled Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 150 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,670 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,732 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 89 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,751 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 85 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,901 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 81 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,415 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 73 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,866 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,155 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,365 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,078 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 40,717 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,005 ratings — published 1934
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 357,116 ratings — published 1997
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,123 ratings — published 1988
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,191 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 100,224 ratings — published 1987
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 34 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,308 ratings — published 1958
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,362 ratings — published 1962
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,109 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,942 ratings — published 1931
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 29,851 ratings — published 1952
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,624 ratings — published 1929
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 61,786 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 168,910 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 — 144,905 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,911 ratings — published 1947
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,646 ratings — published 1976
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,934 ratings — published 1964
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,651 ratings — published 1930
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,972 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,675 ratings — published 1950
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,482 ratings — published 1963
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,321 ratings — published 1998
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,778 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,829 ratings — published 1978
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 193,781 ratings — published 1982
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,322 ratings — published 1992
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,001 ratings — published 2002
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,390 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,286 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,258 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,872 ratings — published 2010
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,438 ratings — published 1987
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,742 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,586 ratings — published 1995
The Mourner (Parker, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,799 ratings — published 1963
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,566 ratings — published 1992
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,495 ratings — published 1996
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,904 ratings — published 1963
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,264 ratings — published 1971
“If we could avenge people for their personalities, we'd all be in trouble.”
― Sing Her Down
― Sing Her Down
“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.”
― Grifter's Game
― Grifter's Game
