Best Antiheroes and Antiheroines

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anti-hero
1
Richard III
by William Shakespeare
7,050 members
99 reviews
4
4 Members
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
62,322 members
813 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,430 members
336 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,295 members
749 reviews
4
4 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,069 members
1,307 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
17,187 members
168 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,954 members
581 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
19,513 members
151 reviews
4
4 Members
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9
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,249 members
814 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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10
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51,856 members
576 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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11
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,289 members
1,199 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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12
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,132 members
491 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,704 members
367 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
16,332 members
201 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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15
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,244 members
114 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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16
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,729 members
416 reviews
4
3 Members
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,877 members
428 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,359 members
636 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
21,231 members
352 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,742 members
206 reviews
4
4 Members
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
35,943 members
532 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
16,430 members
208 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,867 members
620 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,436 members
580 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
4,001 members
80 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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26
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,619 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,770 members
132 reviews
4
3 Members
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Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
5,991 members
156 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,570 members
270 reviews
4
3 Members
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,780 members
321 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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31
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht
1,806 members
21 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,897 members
356 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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33
Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,429 members
98 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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34
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,757 members
374 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,180 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Faust, Part One
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5,824 members
44 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,730 members
282 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,890 members
192 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,642 members
363 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
by Quentin Tarantino
947 members
5 reviews
4.1
Member
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41
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,933 members
189 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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42
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
4,103 members
59 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
21,094 members
520 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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44
Grendel
by John Gardner
6,700 members
118 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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45
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
5,023 members
101 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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46
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,425 members
869 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
39,146 members
877 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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48
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
7,337 members
106 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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49
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,379 members
504 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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50
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,407 members
461 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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51
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
7,252 members
192 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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52
V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore
11,932 members
217 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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53
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34,561 members
395 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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54
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,388 members
302 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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55
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
24,263 members
857 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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56
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
8,453 members
91 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,413 members
104 reviews
4
2 Members
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58
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,363 members
438 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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59
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
11,263 members
157 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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60
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,243 members
227 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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61
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,804 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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62
The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
10,992 members
487 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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63
The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie
9,271 members
284 reviews
4
Member
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64
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
15,603 members
228 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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65
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
2,736 members
48 reviews
4
2 Members
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66
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
15,711 members
212 reviews
4
2 Members
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67
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,414 members
519 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
14,297 members
723 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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69
Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
3,952 members
86 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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70
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,380 members
53 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
1,101 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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72
The Lies of Locke Lamora
by Scott Lynch
12,380 members
472 reviews
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
73
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
11,835 members
717 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
74
The Tale of Genji {complete}
by Murasaki Shikibu
6,302 members
66 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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75
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
24,932 members
306 reviews
4
2 Members
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76
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
6,675 members
124 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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77
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe
1,756 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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78
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,343 members
499 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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79
A Life
by Italo Svevo
488 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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80
Black Sun Rising
by C. S. Friedman
2,894 members
45 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
81
The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
by Stephen R. Donaldson
2,312 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
KimarieBee
82
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
9,214 members
126 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
83
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,596 members
511 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
84
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
7,193 members
281 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
7,094 members
111 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
30,915 members
495 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
thecoroner
87
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
9,300 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
88
A Hero of Our Time
by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
4,229 members
70 reviews
3.9
Member
thecoroner
89
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,293 members
1,637 reviews
3.9
Member
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90
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,092 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
thecoroner
91
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,601 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
92
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
12,701 members
198 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
93
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,434 members
433 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
94
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
22,201 members
436 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
95
Book of Night
by Holly Black
3,610 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
96
Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
2,909 members
74 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
97
Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident
by Eoin Colfer
13,879 members
142 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
98
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Ripley Under Ground | Ripley's Game
by Patricia Highsmith
953 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
99
Royal Flash
by George MacDonald Fraser
1,538 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
100
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
by George MacDonald Fraser
1,059 members
11 reviews
4
Member
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