Recommend me some good noir reading

[Mauby]

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

 

[NorCal]

The complete works of Dashiell Hammett. Start with Red Harvest

 

[Rambo]

Raymond Chandler

 

[unpainted huffheinz]

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.

 

[CDFS]

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

 

[Tangfastic]

Pulp by Bukowski.

 

[Fuuma]

http://www.amazon.com/120-Rue-Gare-L...7590252&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/White-Jazz-Nov...7590313&sr=1-1

 

[Vito]

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

 

[limping_decorum]

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

 

[romafan]

Ian Rankin's Rebus stories?

Classic noir - James Ellroy

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

 

[whodini]

The Third Man.

 

[gdl203]

Georges Simenon

 

[milosz]

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

 

[Mauby]

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

 

[CDFS]

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