381 books
—
56 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Noir Books
Showing 1-50 of 24,802
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 1103 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 174,493 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 840 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,753 ratings — published 1930
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 601 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 51,306 ratings — published 1934
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 530 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 102,133 ratings — published 1987
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 514 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,801 ratings — published 1953
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 504 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,455 ratings — published 1940
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 485 times as noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,637 ratings — published 1936
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,630 ratings — published 1934
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 394 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,896 ratings — published 1929
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 362 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,687 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,829 ratings — published 1952
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 350 times as noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,418 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 327 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,610 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 284 times as noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,680 ratings — published 1949
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 281 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,930 ratings — published 2012
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as noir)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,305 ratings — published 1947
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 240 times as noir)
avg rating 4.03 — 118,691 ratings — published 2002
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 232 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 32,059 ratings — published 1990
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 220 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,535 ratings — published 1988
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,125 ratings — published 1931
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,961 ratings — published 2010
Velvet Was the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as noir)
avg rating 3.51 — 31,937 ratings — published 2021
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 204 times as noir)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,532 ratings — published 1995
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 40,913 ratings — published 1950
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,902 ratings — published 1962
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,637 ratings — published 1963
Pop. 1280 (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as noir)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,376 ratings — published 1964
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as noir)
avg rating 3.96 — 129,761 ratings — published 1955
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 173 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,509 ratings — published 1958
Mildred Pierce (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,178 ratings — published 1941
Queenpin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 166 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,041 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as noir)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,060 ratings — published 2005
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as noir)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,983 ratings — published 1935
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 155 times as noir)
avg rating 3.96 — 393,191 ratings — published 2000
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,887 ratings — published 1991
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as noir)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,882 ratings — published 2010
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 152 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,539 ratings — published 1992
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as noir)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,661 ratings — published 1946
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 40,146 ratings — published 2009
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 145 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,316 ratings — published 1950
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as noir)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,115 ratings — published 1953
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,426 ratings — published 2009
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as noir)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,773 ratings — published 1956
March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as noir)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,677 ratings — published 1989
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 272,054 ratings — published 2005
A Story of Yesterday (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 129 times as noir)
avg rating 4.50 — 25,621 ratings — published 2014
Die a Little (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as noir)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,933 ratings — published 2005
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,905 ratings — published 1994
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,005 ratings — published 2012
“He used his large shoulders and movements to impose his dominance over others as he strutted around but his facial expressions were a giveaway to people like Maeve who was born into a gritty group of native born fighting Irish. While many saw him as a man who worked his way up to power and influence and attained success that others fail to achieve, she saw him as a sham. He didn’t acquire loyalty by goodwill, but by corruption, fear, and loathing.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
“ Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of the murder. She caught sight of Richard spitting out a mouthful of hair.”
― Murder on Family Grounds
― Murder on Family Grounds
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
mystery-noir and noir-mystery