The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep (1939) is a crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978.

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The 139th greatest fiction book of all time

This book is on the following lists:

1. - 12th on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)
2. - 34th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
3. - 37th on 50 Books to Read Before You Die (Complex)
4. - 56th on The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
5. - 64th on 100 Best Novels in English Since 1900 (Counterpunch)
6. - 68th on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
7. - 91st on In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels (ThisRecording.com)
8. - 96th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (Le Monde)
9. - 97th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
10. - The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)
11. - 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (The Telegraph)
12. - The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993 (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
13. - 100 Best Novels Written in English (The Guardian)
14. - The Best Classics (The Times)
15. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
16. - 100 Novels That Shaped Our World (BBC)
17. - TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	543764	$9.00	$5.80	2012
	The Big Sleep	Audio CD	2559833		$3,888.99
	The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake	Hardcover	417021		$0.95
	The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake	Hardcover	454217		$6.99
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	467277	$2.95	$2.78	2011
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	199824	$6.00	$26.79	2013
	The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely: AND Farewell My Lovely (Modern Library)	Kindle Edition	54977	$7.99		2011
	The Big Sleep (The Best Mysteries of All Time)	Hardcover	742822	$47.06	$1.77
	The Annotated Big Sleep	Paperback	1129144	$17.00		2017
	The Big Sleep	Hardcover	2273407	$38.95	$0.01
	The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake	Hardcover	4025050	$17.49	$9.50
	The Big Sleep	Kindle Edition	95357			2020
	The Big Sleep	Hardcover	1992776		$48.95
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	5289496	$10.90	$22.29	2007
	The Big Sleep & The High Window (Dramatized)	Audible Audio Edition	122137	$11.95		2005
	The Big Sleep (Penguin Essentials)	Paperback	5721980	$9.31	$3.75
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	300643	$11.38		2021
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	1712812	$6.80	$6.80	2011
	The big sleep	Paperback	4004503	$5.85	$0.26
	"The Big Sleep: Two Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations (BBC Radio Collection)	Audio CD	3209807		$11.97	2001
	The Big Sleep (Annotated)	Paperback	3117200	$9.99		2020
	The Big Sleep	Audible Audio Edition	2981	$14.95		2014
	The Big Sleep. (Pearson English Active Readers)	Paperback	6309322	$13.77	$8.21	2012
	Big Sleep	Mass Market Paperback	3623291	$54.01	$6.99	1973
	The Big Sleep: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation	Audio CD	1707203	$9.47	$9.64	2011
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	11047072		$16.02
	The Big Sleep (Japanese Edition)	Hardcover	1742743	$25.62	$12.40	2012
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	458357	$8.99		2017
	The Big Sleep   [BIG SLEEP] [Paperback]	Paperback	5785685	$7.37	$5.10
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	594572	$9.00		2018
	El sueno eterno / The Big Sleep (13/20) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	4603274	$27.99	$34.97	2009
	El sueno eterno / The Big Sleep (Biblioteca Chandler) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	5048918	$13.45	$1,145.40	2005
	El sueño eterno (Philip Marlowe 1) (Spanish Edition)	Kindle Edition	873117			2013
	The Big Sleep	Audio CD	1908127	$25.90
	The Big Sleep	Kindle Edition	39213			2020
	The Big Sleep	Audio CD	3861210	$16.13	$11.98	2019
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	6668718		$30.24
	The Big Sleep Publisher: Vintage	Paperback	1557780	$10.24	$2.00
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	1210684	$9.95		2018
	The Big Sleep (A Philip Marlowe Novel)	Paperback	19350	$9.00	$1.99	1988
	The Annotated Big Sleep	Kindle Edition	342981	$13.99		2018
	The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely	Hardcover	380936	$12.99	$5.93	1995
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	7767161		$5.00	1958
	The Big Sleep (Chinese Edition)	Hardcover	1066237	$16.41		2018
	The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)	Paperback	2430166	$44.51	$0.01	1988
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	2431091	$14.93	$0.01	1978
	Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America)	Hardcover	455171	$34.00	$12.65	1995
	The Big Sleep	Kindle Edition	94333			2020
	The Big Sleep: Philip Marlowe, Book 1	Audible Audiobook	1712	$21.44		2020
	The Big Sleep (Everyman's Library Classics)	Hardcover	2542484	$19.23	$18.62	2002
	The Big Sleep: A Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)	Kindle Edition	12047	$5.99		2002
	Four Complete Philip Marlowe Novels: The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake	Hardcover	1517488	$41.36	$5.00	1986
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	2160856	$14.11	$5.98	2000
	El sueño eterno / The Big Sleep (Contemporanea (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	1933865	$6.00	$7.74	2014
	The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep / Farewell My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady In The Lake	Hardcover	2812416	$105.04	$20.00	1980
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	5216518		$2.00	1950
	"The Big Sleep"	Paperback	8588630		$1.96
	The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window (Everyman's Library)	Hardcover	405585	$24.32	$12.41	2002
	The Big Sleep	Hardcover	2041927	$55.00	$23.04	1989
	The Big Sleep, Illustrated with Photographs From the Warner Brothers - First National Film	Hardcover	1350140		$30.00
	The Big Sleep	Mass Market Paperback	1267277	$24.42	$4.21
	The Big Sleep	Mass Market Paperback	2309842	$28.95	$9.55	1975
	Big Sleep (Alpha Books)	Paperback	7021474		$10.03
	Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (Dramatised)	Audible Audiobook	113623	$8.99		2011
	The Big Sleep	Hardcover	2634703	$19.99	$3.73
	The Big Sleep (2008 Unabridged)	Audio CD	5855440		$100.00
	The Big Sleep	Paperback	10011620		$3.00
	The Big Sleep	Hardcover	470315	$19.95	$15.73	2018
	Raymond Chandler: Four Complete Philip MARLOWE Novels- The Lady in the Lake; Farewell My Lovely; The High Window; The Big Sleep	Hardcover	434813	$25.00	$15.76	1991
	The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye	Paperback	2380694	$88.66	$15.49	1995