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Best Noir Books: The Ultimate List

Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Noir books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.

Noir: A Novel (2019)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a hapless bartender; his Chinese sidekick; a doll with sharp angles and dangerous curves; a tight-lipped Air Force general; a wisecracking waif; Petey, a black mamba; and many mo…
Author(s): Christopher Moore

The Best American Noir of the Century (The Best American Series ®) (2011)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate List“Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.”—New York Journal of Books In his introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, “Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction.
Author(s): James Ellroy, Otto Penzler

Enemies With Benefits (2019)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListEli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better – and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life.The day he came back, ten years later, was the worst.And now? He's my co-worker.Grown-up Eli Loveless is sexy as sin. He's hotter than asphalt in the summer.
Author(s): Roxie Noir

Spider-Man Noir: The Complete Collection (2019)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListThe hard-boiled adventures of the grittiest webslinger in the Spider-Verse! In the dark days of the Great Depression, young reporter Peter Parker finds himself forever changed by a spider's bite — and resolves to take on crime and corruption as the urban vigilante called Spider-Man! And there are no shortage of foes — from gangland bosses the Goblin and Crime Master, to pulp-era twists on familiar faces like Kraven, Chameleon, Doctor Octopus and more!
Author(s): David Hine , Fabrice Sapolsky, et al.

Best Fake Fiancé (2019)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListMy life has room for exactly two women: my daughter Rusty and my best friend Charlotte — known to everyone as Charlie. One is a feisty, tomboyish firecracker. The other is my seven-year-old.
Author(s): Roxie Noir

Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem (1994)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListEx-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparisonThis collection includes:MARCH VIOLETSTHE PALE CRIMINALA GERMAN REQUIEM
Author(s): Philip Kerr

L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City (2010)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListMidcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as “the white spot of America,” a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of “pleasure girls” and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make.
Author(s): John Buntin

How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling (2007)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListHow to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling is an instructional book based on the cinematic, high contrast noir style of acclaimed comic book and graphic novel illustrator, Shawn Martinbrough.Martinbrough’s work has been published by DC Comics, Vertigo and Marvel Comics, illustrating stories ranging from Bat…
Author(s): Shawn Martinbrough

Horror Noire (2011)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListFrom King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890’s to Present, Robin R.
Author(s): Means Coleman, Robin R

The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir (2014)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListThe poster art from the noir era has a bold look and an iconography all its own. During noir’s golden age, studios commissioned these arresting illustrations for even the lowliest “B” thriller. The Art of Noir is the first book to present this striking artwork in a lavishly produced, large-format, full-color volume. The more than 300 dazzling posters and other promotional material range from the classics to rare archive films such as The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Blonde Kiss.
Author(s): Eddie Muller

Film Noir Reader (Limelight) (2004)

 Best Noir Books: The Ultimate ListThis bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.
Author(s): Alain Silver, James Ursini

Best Noir Books: The Ultimate List

We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some noir books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.

Marché Noir: The Economy of Survival in Second World War France

Author(s): Kenneth Mouré
ID: 3674448, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2023, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf

Handbook of Digital Public History

Author(s): Serge Noiret; Mark Tebeau
ID: 3332479, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, Year: 2022, Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf

Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles

Author(s): Alex Harvey
ID: 3354075, Publisher: Reaktion Books, Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub

Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely hot items according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.

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