Best Hard-Boiled Books — Community Picks

Discover the top Hard-Boiled books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 29 books in this genre.

• The high window by Raymond Chandler
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
• The Dain curse by Dashiell Hammett
• The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain
• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
• Gold comes in bricks by Erle Stanley Gardner
• Top of the heap by Erle Stanley Gardner
• The Blackbird by Donald E. Westlake
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler