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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 — 168,126 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,224 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,753 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 39 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,641 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,695 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,995 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,356 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,818 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,191 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,376 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,606 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,101 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,504 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,198 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,020 ratings — published 1991
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,487 ratings — published 1929
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 48,516 ratings — published 1934
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,072 ratings — published 1958
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,071 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,032 ratings — published 1987
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 26,157 ratings — published 1952
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 114,774 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,609 ratings — published 1930
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,618 ratings — published 1957
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,211 ratings — published 1976
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,547 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,105 ratings — published 1990
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,738 ratings — published 1947
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,708 ratings — published 1956
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,601 ratings — published 1963
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,520 ratings — published 1963
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,297 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,628 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,209 ratings — published 1963
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,312 ratings — published 1990
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,494 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,796 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,765 ratings — published 1952
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,311 ratings — published 1927
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,477 ratings — published 1966
The Gutter and the Grave (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,725 ratings — published 1958
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,509 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 — 28,970 ratings — published 1993
The Barbarous Coast (Lew Archer, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,758 ratings — published 1956
The Galton Case (Lew Archer, #8)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,245 ratings — published 1959
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,982 ratings — published 1947
The Getaway (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,321 ratings — published 1958
Pick-Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,256 ratings — published 1955
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,079 ratings — published 1964
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,276 ratings — published 1944
“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 friend and business partner, Gerald Peyton was 12 minutes late to the funeral. I’d reminded him it started at 2 p.m. “Yeah, yeah, Frank,” he said. “I’ll be there. Just be sure you make it.” Well, here I sat on my thumbs, and he was the no-show. He stopped at a bar and got sloshed, I thought.”
― Death Car
― Death Car
