6 must-read classics books like The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5) by Raymond Chandler

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The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.31

Format: 595 pages, Kindle Edition

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIG…

If you liked the classics plot in The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5) by Raymond Chandler , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Get Carter

By: Ted Lewis

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral - his brother's. Frank's car was found at the bott… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1) by Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill

3. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Last Don

By: Mario Puzo

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The last don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless man who is determined to see his heirs est… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no rest or relaxation for Miss Marple. Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's most appealing… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. Amsterdam

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more

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8. The Galton Case

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetw… read more

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9. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

10. The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)

By: John Galsworthy

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Sagachronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial … read more

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11. No Time for Goodbye (No Time For Goodbye #1)

By: Linwood Barclay

4.16

Format: 384 pages,

Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family, mother, father… read more

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12. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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13. Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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14. A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-5)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

For the first time, all five novels in the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO's "Game of Thrones… read more

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15. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

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16. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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  • american
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Cover of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

17. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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18. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

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  • fiction
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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19. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

Cover of Buried (DC Jack Warr, #1) by Lynda La Plante

20. Buried (DC Jack Warr, #1)

By: Lynda La Plante

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME THINGS SHOULD REMAIN BURIED . . .The gripping first book in a brand-new thriller series by the… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5) by Raymond Chandler

21. The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.31

Format: 595 pages, Kindle Edition

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIG… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5) book and Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5)

  • detective
  • classics
  • american
  • anthologies
  • american fiction
  • noir
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

12 Best fiction books like The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe, #3-5) by Raymond Chandler

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Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

2.57

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Get Carter

Ted Lewis

3.92

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

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The Last Don

Mario Puzo

3.79

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The Red Dahlia (Anna Travis, #2)

Lynda La Plante

4.14

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Death on Cromer Beach (DS Ashley Knight #1)

Ross Greenwood

4.10

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The Dead of Winter

Stuart MacBride

3.81

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The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

Mark Billingham

4.11

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