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Noir Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 1056 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 166,115 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 798 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 113,711 ratings — published 1930
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 563 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 47,445 ratings — published 1934
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 488 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,821 ratings — published 1953
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 476 times as noir)
avg rating 3.78 — 94,263 ratings — published 1987
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 473 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,098 ratings — published 1940
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 456 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,890 ratings — published 1936
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,598 ratings — published 1934
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 372 times as noir)
avg rating 3.95 — 29,231 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 333 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,473 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 312 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,873 ratings — published 1942
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 309 times as noir)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,851 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as noir)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,648 ratings — published 1952
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 266 times as noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,509 ratings — published 1949
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as noir)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,618 ratings — published 1947
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 113,316 ratings — published 2002
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,435 ratings — published 1931
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 208 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,226 ratings — published 1988
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,538 ratings — published 1990
Velvet Was the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as noir)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,007 ratings — published 2021
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 37,216 ratings — published 1950
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as noir)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,040 ratings — published 1962
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,009 ratings — published 1963
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 168 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,877 ratings — published 1958
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 166 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,993 ratings — published 1964
Queenpin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,967 ratings — published 2007
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 160 times as noir)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,865 ratings — published 1995
Mildred Pierce (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,599 ratings — published 1941
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,310 ratings — published 1935
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 149 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,667 ratings — published 1992
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 68,441 ratings — published 1991
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 372,632 ratings — published 2000
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as noir)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,122 ratings — published 1946
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as noir)
avg rating 3.95 — 112,012 ratings — published 1955
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 37,238 ratings — published 2009
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 135 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,931 ratings — published 1950
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as noir)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,668 ratings — published 1956
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,832 ratings — published 2009
Die a Little (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as noir)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,869 ratings — published 2005
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as noir)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,564 ratings — published 1953
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,798 ratings — published 2012
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,541 ratings — published 1994
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,481 ratings — published 2010
The Bride Wore Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,775 ratings — published 1940
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 113 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,356 ratings — published 1929
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,394,423 ratings — published 2005
The Big Clock (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as noir)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,670 ratings — published 1946
Blacksad (Blacksad, #1-3)
by (shelved 107 times as noir)
avg rating 4.31 — 13,971 ratings — published 2006
“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
“I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.”
― High Life
― High Life
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