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Hard Boiled Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,618
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 149 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 166,245 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 113,803 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,133 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 83 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,867 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 79 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 29,254 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 71 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,494 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,903 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,526 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,636 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,863 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 47,497 ratings — published 1934
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 345,784 ratings — published 1997
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,944 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 94,297 ratings — published 1987
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,235 ratings — published 1988
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,884 ratings — published 1958
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,055 ratings — published 1962
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,450 ratings — published 1931
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,920 ratings — published 1936
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,665 ratings — published 1952
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,365 ratings — published 1929
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 161,487 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,236 ratings — published 1944
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 58,471 ratings — published 2005
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 139,224 ratings — published 1999
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,006 ratings — published 1964
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,654 ratings — published 1947
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,582 ratings — published 1930
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,559 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,456 ratings — published 1950
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,019 ratings — published 1963
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,004 ratings — published 1976
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,666 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,560 ratings — published 1978
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 113,378 ratings — published 2002
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 41,758 ratings — published 1998
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 190,612 ratings — published 1982
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,675 ratings — published 1992
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,548 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,138 ratings — published 1951
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,982 ratings — published 1949
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.75 — 24,960 ratings — published 2010
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,892 ratings — published 1995
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,567 ratings — published 2005
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,631 ratings — published 1992
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,077 ratings — published 1987
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 72,402 ratings — published 1996
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,481 ratings — published 1971
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,359 ratings — published 1963
Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,822 ratings — published 1971
“The car slid along Los Angeles to Fifth, east to San Pedro, south again for block after block, quiet blocks and loud blocks, blocks where silent men sat on shaky front porches and blocks where noisy young toughs of both colors snarled and wise-cracked at one another in front of cheap restaurants and drug-stores and beer parlors full of slot machines. (Pickup on Noon Street)”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
“I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors”
― Playback
― Playback
