6 best-selling noir books like The Enchanters by James Ellroy

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The Enchanters

By: James Ellroy

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with…

If you liked the noir plot in The Enchanters by James Ellroy , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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2. To Walk the Night

By: William Sloane

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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3. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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4. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of The Enchanters by James Ellroy

5. The Enchanters

By: James Ellroy

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's The Enchanters book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • historical
  • united states
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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6. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • literary fiction
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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7. Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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8. Trudy

By: Massimo Carlotto

3.36

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Un ex commissario ai vertici di un'agenzia di security, una giovane di provincia il cui marito è sc… read more

Similar categories in Massimo Carlotto's Trudy book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • noir
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

9. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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11. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. Brooklyn Crime Novel

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

13. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Hero book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

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15. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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16. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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17. Gangsters Don't Die: A Novel (Gangsterland)

By: Tod Goldberg

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The “gloriously original” ( The New York Times ) and critically acclaimed crime series starring a C… read more

Similar categories in Tod Goldberg's Gangsters Don't Die: A Novel (Gangsterland) book and James Ellroy's The Enchanters

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

18. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel

By: Denise Mina

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more

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  • historical
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

15 must-read fiction books like The Enchanters by James Ellroy

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4.29

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Don Winslow

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4.00

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4.56

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