Best Antiheroes and Antiheroines

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anti-hero
1
Richard III
by William Shakespeare
7,120 members
100 reviews
4
4 Members
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
61,920 members
809 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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3
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,263 members
335 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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4
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,026 members
748 reviews
4
4 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
82,712 members
1,302 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
17,119 members
170 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,708 members
578 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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8
Othello
by William Shakespeare
19,629 members
151 reviews
4
4 Members
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9
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,019 members
811 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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10
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51,553 members
574 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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11
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,047 members
1,196 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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12
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
41,945 members
491 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,665 members
368 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
16,378 members
201 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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15
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,248 members
112 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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16
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,596 members
415 reviews
4
3 Members
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,749 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,197 members
633 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
21,137 members
352 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,708 members
206 reviews
4
4 Members
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
35,784 members
532 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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22
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
16,419 members
206 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,612 members
618 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,287 members
578 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,991 members
80 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,582 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,677 members
130 reviews
4
3 Members
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Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
5,962 members
156 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,506 members
269 reviews
4
3 Members
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,658 members
320 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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31
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht
1,801 members
21 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,846 members
356 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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33
Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,416 members
97 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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34
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,624 members
373 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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35
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,089 members
336 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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36
Faust, Part One
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5,807 members
44 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,618 members
279 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,869 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,532 members
360 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
by Quentin Tarantino
945 members
5 reviews
4.1
Member
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41
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,823 members
188 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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42
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
4,081 members
57 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
21,018 members
518 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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44
Grendel
by John Gardner
6,675 members
118 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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45
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,992 members
101 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
46
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,269 members
866 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
38,978 members
875 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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48
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
7,338 members
106 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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49
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,278 members
502 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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50
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,297 members
460 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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51
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
7,260 members
192 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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52
V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore
11,885 members
217 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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53
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34,394 members
393 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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54
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,332 members
302 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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55
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
24,114 members
853 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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56
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
8,438 members
90 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,396 members
104 reviews
4
2 Members
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58
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,217 members
436 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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59
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
11,230 members
157 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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60
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,212 members
222 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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61
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,748 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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62
The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
10,978 members
480 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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63
The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie
9,241 members
281 reviews
4
Member
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64
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
15,497 members
226 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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65
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
2,727 members
48 reviews
4
2 Members
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66
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
15,665 members
211 reviews
4
2 Members
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67
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,435 members
519 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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68
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
14,242 members
723 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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69
Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
3,944 members
86 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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70
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,368 members
52 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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71
Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
1,098 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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72
The Lies of Locke Lamora
by Scott Lynch
12,306 members
471 reviews
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
73
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
11,768 members
710 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
74
The Tale of Genji {complete}
by Murasaki Shikibu
6,266 members
66 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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75
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
24,846 members
305 reviews
4
2 Members
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76
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
6,657 members
124 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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77
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe
1,752 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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78
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,270 members
496 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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79
A Life
by Italo Svevo
487 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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80
Black Sun Rising
by C. S. Friedman
2,882 members
41 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
81
The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
by Stephen R. Donaldson
2,305 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
KimarieBee
82
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
9,184 members
125 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
83
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,530 members
508 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
84
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
7,187 members
281 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
7,085 members
111 reviews
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
30,783 members
493 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
thecoroner
87
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
9,276 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
88
A Hero of Our Time
by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
4,220 members
70 reviews
3.9
Member
thecoroner
89
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,118 members
1,632 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
90
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
25,978 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
thecoroner
91
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,584 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
92
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
12,644 members
198 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
93
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,298 members
431 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
94
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
22,141 members
434 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
95
Book of Night
by Holly Black
3,569 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
96
Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
2,895 members
74 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
97
Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident
by Eoin Colfer
13,834 members
140 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
98
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Ripley Under Ground | Ripley's Game
by Patricia Highsmith
950 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
99
Royal Flash
by George MacDonald Fraser
1,533 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
100
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
by George MacDonald Fraser
1,058 members
11 reviews
4
Member
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