James Ellroy - The Authors List

Another crime novelist on my authors list is James Ellroy with 12 books that I've read. One book, My Dark Places, was a biographic memoir by the author. The first novel I read by James Ellroy was The Black Dahlia in 1994 and then I read a couple more in the L.A. Quartet series the following months.

I really enjoyed his books. They went beyond the traditional classic crime noir fiction into something different, something new with a unique postmodern prose style. I really liked Brian DePalma's film of The Black Dahlia too.

There are a few more of his novels that I should put on my to-read list.

The James Ellroy books I've read:

• The Black Dahlia, 1987 - Feb 1994
• The Big Nowhere, 1988 - Mar 1994
• L.A. Confidential, 1990 - Apr 1994
• White Jazz, 1992 - Apr 1995
• American Tabloid, 1995 - Jun 1995
• Killer On The Road, 1986 - May 1996
• L.A. Noir, 1997 - Jul 1997
• The Cold Six Thousand, 2001 - Nov 2001
• My Dark Places, 1996 -  Apr 2005
• Blood's A Rover, 2009 -  Mar 2010
• Perfidia, 2014 - Jan 2015
• This Storm, 2019 - Nov 2019