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Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
1.
The Killer Inside Me
by:
Jim Thompson
3.85 avg rating — 24,518 ratings
2.
Double Indemnity
by:
James M. Cain
4.06 avg rating — 27,751 ratings
3.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by:
James M. Cain
3.76 avg rating — 47,109 ratings
4.
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by:
Raymond Chandler
3.94 avg rating — 165,220 ratings
5.
The Getaway
by:
Jim Thompson
3.91 avg rating — 7,169 ratings
6.
The Glass Key
by:
Dashiell Hammett
3.92 avg rating — 13,388 ratings
7.
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by:
Dashiell Hammett
3.95 avg rating — 29,077 ratings
8.
A Hell of a Woman
by:
Jim Thompson
3.94 avg rating — 3,776 ratings
9.
Pop. 1280
by:
Jim Thompson
4.04 avg rating — 11,877 ratings
10.
The Grifters
by:
Jim Thompson
3.93 avg rating — 11,971 ratings
11.
Nightmare Alley
by:
William Lindsay Gresham
3.82 avg rating — 7,074 ratings
12.
The Bride Wore Black
by:
Cornell Woolrich
3.87 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
13.
Savage Night
by:
Jim Thompson
3.85 avg rating — 2,498 ratings
14.
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by:
Chester Himes
3.89 avg rating — 7,428 ratings
15.
Shutter Island
by:
Dennis Lehane
4.13 avg rating — 215,596 ratings
16.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
by:
Horace McCoy
3.86 avg rating — 11,220 ratings
17.
Miss Lonelyhearts
by:
Nathanael West
3.57 avg rating — 6,855 ratings
18.
Nightfall
by:
David Goodis
3.88 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
19.
Dark Passage
by:
David Goodis
3.96 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
20.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
by:
Horace McCoy
3.85 avg rating — 502 ratings
21.
The Wounded and the Slain
by:
David Goodis
3.65 avg rating — 749 ratings
22.
Little Caesar
by:
W.R. Burnett
3.69 avg rating — 377 ratings
23.
The Crazy Kill (Harlem Cycle, #3)
by:
Chester Himes
3.83 avg rating — 779 ratings
24.
They Don't Dance Much
by:
James Ross
3.91 avg rating — 385 ratings
25.
Tobacco Road
by:
Erskine Caldwell
3.71 avg rating — 15,711 ratings
26.
The Burglar
by:
David Goodis
3.99 avg rating — 655 ratings
27.
A Touch of Death
by:
Charles Williams
3.84 avg rating — 955 ratings
28.
Street of No Return
by:
David Goodis
3.96 avg rating — 561 ratings
29.
Kill the Boss Good-Bye
by:
Peter Rabe
3.52 avg rating — 99 ratings
30.
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by:
Chester Himes
3.86 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
31.
Night and the City
by:
Gerald Kersh
4.03 avg rating — 298 ratings
32.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by:
George V. Higgins
4.05 avg rating — 10,370 ratings
33.
Thieves Like Us
by:
Edward Anderson
3.68 avg rating — 812 ratings
33.
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Blandish's Orchids and Dave Fenner #1)
by:
James Hadley Chase
3.77 avg rating — 2,887 ratings
35.
Sanctuary
by:
William Faulkner
3.63 avg rating — 14,457 ratings
35.
Dirty Snow
by:
Georges Simenon
3.89 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
37.
The Butterfly
by:
James M. Cain
3.35 avg rating — 519 ratings
38.
Memory (Hard Case Crime Book 64)
by:
Donald E. Westlake
3.76 avg rating — 751 ratings
39.
Prelude to a Certain Midnight
by:
Gerald Kersh
3.98 avg rating — 107 ratings
40.
Build My Gallows High
by:
Geoffrey Homes
3.74 avg rating — 224 ratings
41.
A Kiss Before Dying
by:
Ira Levin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,918 ratings
42.
Home Is the Sailor
by:
Day Keene
3.65 avg rating — 477 ratings
43.
Black Friday and Selected Stories
by:
David Goodis
3.87 avg rating — 203 ratings
44.
A Killer Is Loose
by:
Gil Brewer
3.86 avg rating — 90 ratings
45.
Park Avenue Tramp
by:
Fletcher Flora
3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
46.
The Out is Death
by:
Peter Rabe
3.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
47.
Death by Haggis
by:
Jay Cutts
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
47.
The Devil All the Time
by:
Donald Ray Pollock
4.14 avg rating — 39,416 ratings
47.
Not Okay
by:
Brett Axel
4.44 avg rating — 142 ratings
50.
The Bastard
by:
Erskine Caldwell
3.43 avg rating — 81 ratings
51.
A Smaller Hell
by:
A.J. Reid
3.16 avg rating — 44 ratings
52.
Train
by:
Pete Dexter
3.77 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
53.
Bodies Are Dust
by:
P.J. Wolfson
4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
53.
Web of Murder
by:
Harry Whittington
3.89 avg rating — 87 ratings
53.
The Heavenly Table
by:
Donald Ray Pollock
4.09 avg rating — 6,960 ratings
56.
Brain Guy
by:
Benjamin Appel
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
57.
Clockers
by:
Richard Price
4.09 avg rating — 9,555 ratings
58.
The Wheelman: A Novel
by:
Duane Swierczynski
3.85 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
59.
Fay
by:
Larry Brown
3.99 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
60.
Wolf Tickets
by:
Ray Banks
3.94 avg rating — 112 ratings
61.
You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
by:
Richard Hallas
3.97 avg rating — 172 ratings
61.
The Posthumous Man
by:
Jake Hinkson
3.94 avg rating — 199 ratings
63.
Retreat from Oblivion
by:
David Goodis
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
63.
The Three-way Split
by:
Gil Brewer
4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
65.
High Sierra
by:
W.R. Burnett
3.95 avg rating — 165 ratings
66.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
by:
Gerald Butler
3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
67.
The Dead Look On
by:
Gerald Kersh
4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
68.
Mad with Much Heart
by:
Gerald Butler
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
69.
The Deadly Percheron
by:
John Franklin Bardin
3.73 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
70.
I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)
by:
Boris Vian
3.56 avg rating — 12,160 ratings
71.
The Dead Stay Dumb
by:
James Hadley Chase
3.48 avg rating — 310 ratings
72.
Framed in Guilt
by:
Day Keene
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
73.
Portrait in Smoke
by:
Bill S. Ballinger
3.97 avg rating — 92 ratings
74.
13 French Street
by:
Gil Brewer
3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings
75.
Fools Walk In
by:
Bruno Fischer
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
76.
Cassidy's Girl
by:
David Goodis
3.78 avg rating — 519 ratings
77.
One
by:
David Karp
4.11 avg rating — 347 ratings
78.
To Kiss, or Kill
by:
Day Keene
3.66 avg rating — 65 ratings
79.
Of Tender Sin
by:
David Goodis
3.68 avg rating — 181 ratings
80.
The Brotherhood of Velvet
by:
David Karp
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
81.
Wake Up To Murder
by:
Day Keene
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
82.
If The Coffin Fits
by:
Day Keene
2.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
83.
The Damned
by:
John D. MacDonald
3.99 avg rating — 541 ratings
84.
Nightfall / The Moon in the Gutter / Down There / Dark Passage
by:
David Goodis
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
85.
Hardman
by:
David Karp
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
86.
The Big Heat
by:
William P. McGivern
3.69 avg rating — 166 ratings
87.
Die, Lover
by:
Harry Whittington
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
88.
Sleep with the Devil
by:
Day Keene
4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
89.
Notorious
by:
Day Keene
3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
90.
There Was A Crooked Man
by:
Day Keene
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
91.
Homicidal Lady
by:
Day Keene
3.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
92.
Rogue Cop
by:
William P. McGivern
3.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
93.
The Brothers Rico
by:
Georges Simenon
3.51 avg rating — 266 ratings
94.
Line of Fire
by:
Donald Hamilton
3.89 avg rating — 63 ratings
95.
Who Has Wilma Lathrop?
by:
Day Keene
3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
96.
A Stone for Danny Fisher
by:
Harold Robbins
4.02 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
97.
The Big Caper
by:
Lionel White
3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings
98.
Clean Break
by:
Lionel White
3.95 avg rating — 280 ratings
99.
Kiss Her Goodbye
by:
Wade Miller
3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
100.
The Big Bite
by:
Charles Williams
3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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