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Recommend me some good noir reading

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If you've read some good classic noir or neo-noir fiction let me know about it. Looking for some good reads.
 

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The complete works of Dashiell Hammett. Start with Red Harvest
 

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The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep - the movies are classics but differ from the books enough to warrant reading.

I still have the Philip Kerr 'Berlin Noir' stuff on my list to read.
 

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Noir without the detective element: Books by Chuck Palahniuk. Of the ones I read, namely Survivor comes to mind.
 

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A Touch of Death by Charles Williams

And two of Lawrence Block's early novels: The Girl With The Long Green Heart and Lucky At Cards
 

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ross macdonald: the barborous coast, instant enemy james m. cain: double indemnity, the postman always rings twice jim thompson: pop 1280, the killer inside me noir/pulp... www.hardcasecrime.com collection the black lizard big book of pulps
 

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Ian Rankin's Rebus stories?

Classic noir - James Ellroy

*Not for the faint of heart: Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Georges Simenon
 

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Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway, The Grifters, etc. (start with TKIM)
Hammett, Chandler, Cain
Charles Willeford - Cockfighter
Ross MacDonald - The Moving Target, Drowning Pool, Galton Case
Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers On A Train
David Goodis - Shoot The Piano Player
Eric Ambler's spy novels

But most of all, Georges Simenon's roman durs - Dirty Snow, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The Strangers In The House
 

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I've read Hammet, Chandler, and Palahniuk. Other than that, most of the other suggestions I have not. These are great, thanks.
 

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Also, Irvine Welsh. Filth is even a(bout a) detective.
 

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