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Hardboiled Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 170,532 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,953 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,418 ratings — published 1940
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,583 ratings — published 2010
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 39 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,467 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,174 ratings — published 1929
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,667 ratings — published 2012
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,591 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,907 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,206 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,794 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 22 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,900 ratings — published 1936
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 99,173 ratings — published 1987
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,868 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,212 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,081 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,256 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,655 ratings — published 1991
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 49,522 ratings — published 1934
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,580 ratings — published 1929
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,077 ratings — published 1952
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,240 ratings — published 1958
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,541 ratings — published 1976
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,141 ratings — published 1950
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 40,000 ratings — published 1990
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,342 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,641 ratings — published 1930
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,856 ratings — published 1947
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,760 ratings — published 1957
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 19,452 ratings — published 2010
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,633 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,672 ratings — published 1990
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,965 ratings — published 1995
Shoot the Piano Player (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,723 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.63 — 363,277 ratings — published 2018
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,751 ratings — published 1963
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,689 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 121,932 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,761 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,666 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,396 ratings — published 1963
Angels Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,507 ratings — published 2006
The Gutter and the Grave (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,750 ratings — published 1958
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,928 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,892 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,809 ratings — published 1952
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,376 ratings — published 1947
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,319 ratings — published 1927
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 222,670 ratings — published 2004
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 182,563 ratings — published 1993
“Gerald and Chet left town for the Peyton family reunion held this August below Tappahannock on the Northern Neck. Gerald invited me to go along, but I thanked my best friend and business partner. Shutting down things was bad for our bottom line. So, I stayed put and minded the office.”
― Bent Halo
― Bent Halo
“I had counted nine steps when a voice spoke clearly above us. It said:
—Sure, I killed the bitch.
A gun said something, the same thing four times, roaring like a 16-inch rifle under the iron roof.”
― Red Harvest
—Sure, I killed the bitch.
A gun said something, the same thing four times, roaring like a 16-inch rifle under the iron roof.”
― Red Harvest
