Ranking 50 of THE BEST Crime and Noir Books
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ต.ค. 2024
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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 Fi...
Ross MacDonald: • The Moving Target - Ro...
Portlands & Criminal: • Port Lands - Tod Mollo...
S. A. Cosby: • A Southern Noir Master...
Why I Read Crime Fiction: • Why I Love To Read Cri...
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips "Where the Body Was": • Where The Body Was - E...
The Killer (graphic novel): • The Killer: Best Graph... and • The Killer - Affairs o...
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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Apologies for some of the edits and audio drops, my camera kept overheating. Please leave some suggestions and reactions in the comments. 📚
Very thorough video, Carl. This is a genre I don't have a lot of experience with, but you've got me really intrigued by several here that I'd not heard of. I love that you included the Brubaker/Phillips CIMINAL series. I read their RECKLESS series not too long ago and was really impressed with both Brubaker's writing and Phillips' art. Really great stuff! Well done, sir.
Thanks for the kinds words, I'm trying to get back into making videos again so it's nice to get some feedback. The Reckless series is great, I've been meaning to do a video on the best of Brubaker/Phillips.
@@pleasereadyourbook That’s a phenomenal idea!
This was a lot for me because it's not a genre I typically gravitate towards, but I figured if anyone could make it accessible, it would be you! Thanks! Also, I saw in another comment you are toying with taking it down soon...please don't do that. It's a really good resource
Thanks, it was more of an experiment to see if I could make a video of that length and what the response would be.
Great video! Thank you, you have given us so much new to try!
I have read few of the authors on your list. My list would be filled with John le Carre, PD James, Thomas Harris, Dennis Lehane, John Banville, Martin Cruz Smith, Elizabeth George, and of course, the great Don Winslow. I group crime and thriller together because, how can you not.
Found the writing in Blacktop Wasteland cliched and amateurish so we can agree to disagree there. Thank you, really wonderful list.
The great thing about 'noir' is that there are so many ways to interpret it.
"Ghost Man" by Roger Hobbs, the "Kenzie & Genaro" series by Dennis Lehane, "The Anderson Tapes" and "The Deadly Sins" series by Laurence Sanders, "Sharky's Machine" by William Diehl, "State's Evidence" and "Fatal Obsession" by Stephen Greenleaf, "8 million Ways to die" and "A Walk among the Tombstones", and the "Keller" series by Lawrence Block, and the "V.I. Warshawski" series by Sara Paretsky.
Thanks, a few in here I'm not aware of.
Gosh, this is a whole bunch of books I wish I had read. Where to start? 😂 (I’m guessing S.A. Cosby who has already been in my mind because of BookTube.)
I loved hearing about all of these though I’m limited in how many leads I can pursue.
_City of Night_ appears to have a Paul Carroll connection who was my teacher, as it was serialized in his magazine _Big Table_ apparently - must research more.
Yes it is a lot, it was an experiment more than anything but it's turning out to be one of my best performing videos; I know that isn't a sign of quality though. I'll start breaking down the top tier in smaller videos soon. That's an interesting connection about City of Night that I wasn't aware of, I'll have to look into that.
Great effort here, well done! I would have Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and the Sherlock Holmes stories. Maybe Agatha Christie? Best wishes.
Great suggestion!
Carl Franklin was the director of the "Devil in a Blue Dress" movie, not Spike Lee.
Ah thanks for the correction, I bit off more than I could chew with this video, will probably take it down soon.
@@pleasereadyourbook No, please. It's well done. Stick to 10 book-videos for now, maybe.