"Crime Book Club"
I've started my own book club this year lol (we're only three people, with two at most really reading rn) to get closer to this theme I have called The Year of Noir. Film noir is really my primary interest, but of course you dont get that without its literary roots "Serie Noire". Ranging from hardboiled to crime fiction. We're beginning with Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett as I think it just looked like a good place to start lol. So far its been an intriguing read although im only two chapters in.
Still this has me wondering as a whole really why these authors havent been as remembered as people like Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, etc.
I'm really doing this because I feel noir is one of the most relevant genres to our time, and as an American i feel this tenfold. Idk its still early and im not so sure what I plan on gaining out of it, but I know for a fact im finding good influences on my writing/filmmaking lol.
Anyways the lineup which im still playing around with but this is it if anyone is interested, or has any suggestions
maybe if these are even good starts lol
Beginning in April
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet - April
Pop 1280 by Jim Thompson - May
Kings Ransom by Ed McBain - June
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy - July
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - August
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy - September
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway (maybe Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor who knows) - October
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - November
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler - December