Ranking 50 of THE BEST Crime and Noir Books

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I ranked 50 crime & noir books so you know what's really worth reading.

My other crime & noir reviews:

James Sallis's "Drive":    • Drive  - Best Crime Fiction - Review ...  
Ross MacDonald:    • The Moving Target - Ross MacDonald - ...  
Portlands & Criminal:    • Port Lands - Tod Molloy; Thicker Than...  
S. A. Cosby:    • A Southern Noir Masterpiece - Blackto...  
Why I Read Crime Fiction:    • Why I Love To Read Crime Fiction  
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips "Where the Body Was":    • Where The Body Was - Ed Brubaker Sean...  
The Killer (graphic novel):    • The Killer: Best Graphic Novel You NE...   and    • The Killer - Affairs of the State - M...  

Books ranked in this video, in no particular order:

Criminal, Vols 1 - 3 - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
The KIller (Complete) - Matz & Luc Jacamon
The Killer - Affairs of the State - Matz & Luc Jacamon
She Rides Shotgun - Jordan Harper
Love & Other Wounds - Jordan Harper
The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
Drive - James Sallis
Rear Window & Other Murderous Tales - Cornell Woolrich
Under the Bright Lights - Daniel Woodrell
Crimes in Southern Indiana - Frank Bill
Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
The System - Ryan Gates
Kiss Tomorrow Goodby - Horace McCoy
Miss Lonely Hearts & Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West
Trouble Follows Me - Ross MacDonald
The Cape & Other Stories From The Japanese Ghetto - Kenji Nakagami
Nobody’s Angel - Jack Clark
Port Lands - Todd Molloy
Burning Bright: Stories - Ron Rash
Panhandlers: A Novel in Stories - Nic Shuck
In Just the Right Light - William R Soldan
Easy Money - Jens Lapidus
Don’t Know Tough - Eli Cramer
You Were Never Really Here - Jonathan Ames
Dead Boys - Richard Lange
Dogs of God - Pinckney Bennet
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
Body - Harry Crews
Dirty Work - Larry Brown
Running the Light - Sam Talent
Overlook - Matt McCusker
The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
Blacktop Wasteland - S. A. Cosby
City of Night - John Rechy
Pimp - Iceberg Slim
If He Hollers Let Him Go - Chester Hime
Bluebird, bluebird - Attica Locke
Clockers - Richard Price
Cemetery Road - Gar Anthony Haywood
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosely
The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
Poachers: Stories - Tom Franklin
Hard Revolution - George Pelicans
L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy
The Getaway - Jim Tompson
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins
Miami Blues - Charles Willeford
The Mad and the Bad - Jean-Patrick Machete

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