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Hard Boiled Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 149 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 169,256 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,020 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,077 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 85 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,999 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 77 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,889 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 70 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,286 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,573 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,968 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,465 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,198 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 48,987 ratings — published 1934
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,667 ratings — published 1988
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 352,673 ratings — published 1997
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,100 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 97,156 ratings — published 1987
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,145 ratings — published 1958
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,741 ratings — published 1962
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,606 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,719 ratings — published 1931
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,527 ratings — published 1929
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,079 ratings — published 1952
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 60,465 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 165,955 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,292 ratings — published 1944
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 142,580 ratings — published 1999
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,793 ratings — published 1947
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,513 ratings — published 1964
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,346 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,586 ratings — published 1950
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,623 ratings — published 1930
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,353 ratings — published 1976
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,292 ratings — published 1963
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,555 ratings — published 1998
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,298 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,719 ratings — published 1978
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 192,362 ratings — published 1982
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,006 ratings — published 1992
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,500 ratings — published 2002
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,523 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,227 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,147 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,491 ratings — published 2010
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,660 ratings — published 2005
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,204 ratings — published 1995
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,872 ratings — published 1987
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,036 ratings — published 1996
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,677 ratings — published 1963
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,907 ratings — published 1971
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,127 ratings — published 1947
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,594 ratings — published 1963
“Common sense says go home and forget it, no money coming in. Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up”
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“Guns never settle anything, I said. They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act”
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