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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 — 171,664 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,723 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,748 ratings — published 1940
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 44,496 ratings — published 2010
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,894 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,414 ratings — published 1929
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 44,653 ratings — published 2012
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,866 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,153 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,363 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,073 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 22 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,106 ratings — published 1936
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 100,214 ratings — published 1987
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,943 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,258 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,357 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,284 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,045 ratings — published 1991
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,000 ratings — published 1934
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,842 ratings — published 1957
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,624 ratings — published 1929
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,645 ratings — published 1976
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 29,851 ratings — published 1952
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,911 ratings — published 1947
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,307 ratings — published 1958
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,191 ratings — published 1950
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 40,714 ratings — published 1990
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,990 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,651 ratings — published 1930
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.82 — 20,090 ratings — published 2010
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,674 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,971 ratings — published 1990
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,583 ratings — published 1995
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,740 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.63 — 368,373 ratings — published 2018
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,904 ratings — published 1963
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,803 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,277 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,934 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,691 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,480 ratings — published 1963
Angels Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,683 ratings — published 2006
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,538 ratings — published 1966
The Gutter and the Grave (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,766 ratings — published 1958
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,612 ratings — published 1996
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,122 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,932 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,832 ratings — published 1952
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,647 ratings — published 1947
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Vintage Crime)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,322 ratings — published 1927
“Let me share what I’ve learned about Thai politics. Keep a distance from those doing a victory dance in the end zone unless you understand their game, how it’s scored and how many players each side has. If you can’t figure out the rules of the game, you won’t know when the game has started and when it’s over. Don’t put a bet on a game you don’t understand.”
― Crackdown
― Crackdown
“There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us.”
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