10 must-read crime books like The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Cover of The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette

The N'Gustro Affair

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette

3.51

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, sadisti…

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Cover of Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard

1. Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: 193 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—… read more

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  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke, None

2. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

By: Peter Handke , None

3.18

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Norwood by Charles Portis

3. Norwood

By: Charles Portis

3.85

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."

-Charles Portis, Norwood

"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"

-Charles Portis, Norwood

Cover of The Driver's Seat by John Lanchester, Muriel Spark

4. The Driver's Seat

By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

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5. The Getaway

By: Jim Thompson

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal ca… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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6. After Dark, My Sweet

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping fro… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

7. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) by Elmore Leonard

9. Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: None pages,

Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind--plus his "friends" have a bad hab… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

10. The Glass Pearls

By: Emeric Pressburger

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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11. El apando

By: José Revueltas

3.50

Format: 304 pages,

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  • novels
  • fiction
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12. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

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  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of All Shot Up (Harlem Cycle, #5) by Chester Himes

13. All Shot Up (Harlem Cycle, #5)

By: Chester Himes

4.21

Format: 96 pages,

The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians a… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

14. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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15. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

16. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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17. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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18. Shoot the Piano Player

By: David Goodis

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs ou… read more

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19. Los siete locos (Los siete locos, #1)

By: Roberto Arlt

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

El entusiasmo y la atraccion de Roberto Arlt por los experimentos cientificos y mecanicos forma par… read more

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20. He Died With His Eyes Open

By: James Sallis , Derek Raymond

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the … read more

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21. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

22. Memory (Hard Case Crime, #64)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.12

Format: 192 pages,

After a brutal act of violence leaves him suffering devastating memory loss, actor Paul Cole strugg… read more

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23. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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24. Lost in the Funhouse

By: John Barth

4.27

Format: 197 pages,

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more

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25. Pop. 1280

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more

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26. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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27. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

28. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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29. Baron Bagge

By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged comman… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Dr. No by Percival Everett

30. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

Cover of The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette

31. The N'Gustro Affair

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette

3.51

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, sadisti… read more

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  • noir
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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