What to Read After The Big Sleep
Readers who loved The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Big Sleep is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Big Sleep
Double Indemnity
Big Nowhere
The Long Goodbye
The Maltese Falcon
The Lady in the Lake
The High Window
Red Harvest
The Thin Man
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Black Dahlia
Trouble Is My Business
L.A. Confidential
The Glass Key
Playback
Gorky Park
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch)
The Killer Inside Me
The Day of the Jackal
Mystic River
The Simple Art of Murder
The Alienist
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
No Country for Old Men