31 books
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49 voters
Noir Books
Showing 1-50 of 22,637
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 1056 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 166,607 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 807 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 114,330 ratings — published 1930
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 572 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 47,852 ratings — published 1934
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 492 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,131 ratings — published 1953
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 478 times as noir)
avg rating 3.78 — 94,980 ratings — published 1987
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 476 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,331 ratings — published 1940
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,104 ratings — published 1936
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,832 ratings — published 1934
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 372 times as noir)
avg rating 3.95 — 29,406 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 336 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,668 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 315 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,076 ratings — published 1942
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 310 times as noir)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,379 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 25,167 ratings — published 1952
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 268 times as noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,624 ratings — published 1949
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as noir)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,775 ratings — published 1947
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 113,900 ratings — published 2002
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,516 ratings — published 1931
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 211 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,328 ratings — published 1988
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,777 ratings — published 1990
Velvet Was the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as noir)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,322 ratings — published 2021
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 37,636 ratings — published 1950
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 177 times as noir)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,223 ratings — published 1962
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,100 ratings — published 1963
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 170 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,957 ratings — published 1958
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 168 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,117 ratings — published 1964
Queenpin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 164 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,974 ratings — published 2007
Mildred Pierce (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,664 ratings — published 1941
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 160 times as noir)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,479 ratings — published 1995
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,420 ratings — published 1935
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 68,718 ratings — published 1991
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 150 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,747 ratings — published 1992
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as noir)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,176 ratings — published 1946
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 374,530 ratings — published 2000
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 138 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,999 ratings — published 1950
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as noir)
avg rating 3.95 — 113,863 ratings — published 1955
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 37,639 ratings — published 2009
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as noir)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,690 ratings — published 1956
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as noir)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,607 ratings — published 1953
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,464 ratings — published 2009
Die a Little (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as noir)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,880 ratings — published 2005
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,835 ratings — published 2012
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,575 ratings — published 1994
The Bride Wore Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,803 ratings — published 1940
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as noir)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,009 ratings — published 2010
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 114 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,412 ratings — published 1929
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,411,442 ratings — published 2005
The Big Clock (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as noir)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,684 ratings — published 1946
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,599 ratings — published 1978
“Unbelievable and true. Anna Solokov is neither a frightened girl nor a criminal spider in the center of a huge web of drugs and god knows. No, that dangerous young woman could easily do both at different times, and to different people. No doubt that is part of George’s attraction to her. She is victim. Yet when necessary, or when it suits her, she is victimizer. Does he imagine he is battling for her soul?”
― Murder on Family Grounds
― Murder on Family Grounds
“The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
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