Shannon's "Unreliable Narrators and Anti-heroes: A Reading List"An unreliable narrator is a narrator who can’t be trusted. An anti-hero is a protagonist who has qualities that normally belong to villains or non-heroic flaws. Often the unreliable narrator is an anti-hero. These are novels that feature either or both of these literary devices. Note: With some exceptions, short story collections, young adult fiction and series have been eliminated if so identified. Also, I have striven to include high-quality books only. |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
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Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
by Cormac McCarthy
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
by John Lanchester
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Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
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The Eyes of the Dragon (Signet)
by Stephen King
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
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Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Shelley
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Grendel
by John Gardner
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
by Stephen King
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Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
by J. K. Rowling
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Interview With The Vampire
by Anne Rice
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The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide
by Douglas Adams
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Mr. Phillips
by John Lanchester
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Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Agatha Christie
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
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No Country for Old Men (MTI) (Vintage International)
by Cormac Mccarthy
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No Night Is Too Long
by Barbara Vine
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Ken Kesey
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Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (An Evergreen Book)
by Tom Stoppard
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
by Lemony Snicket
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Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
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The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
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Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
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The Stand
by Stephen King
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The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
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The Talented Mr.Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
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The Tell-Tale Heart (Bantam Classics)
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
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The Turn of the Screw: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
by Henry James
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When We Were Orphans: A Novel
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
by Italo Svevo
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
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Created by Shannon on Jul 06, 2008.
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