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Best Antiheroes and Antiheroines

Based on tag: anti-hero
Members: 6 participating members
alex68, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, KimarieBee

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

by William Shakespeare

5,939 members

86 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,719 members

671 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by William Shakespeare

31,508 members

287 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Picture of Dorian Gray

37,994 members

614 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,614 members

1,133 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by William Shakespeare

14,475 members

143 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

7

by Albert Camus

34,337 members

490 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

16,340 members

128 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Mary Shelley

40,763 members

695 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,441 members

477 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

11

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,652 members

1,063 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,343 members

438 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, alex68, ahef1963

13

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,655 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,282 members

191 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,711 members

92 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,230 members

379 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

17

by Gustave Flaubert

25,466 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,940 members

548 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,012 members

319 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

7,816 members

178 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,513 members

428 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,505 members

172 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Herman Melville

34,070 members

520 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

24

by Joseph Heller

38,900 members

513 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

25

6,364 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

13,314 members

109 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

27

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,180 members

133 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

28

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,557 members

241 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

29

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,517 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

30

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,618 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

31

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,273 members

340 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

2,976 members

97 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,907 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

34

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,317 members

323 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,438 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,681 members

237 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

37

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,075 members

166 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

38

Interview with the Vampire

22,226 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

39

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

by Quentin Tarantino

826 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

11,982 members

148 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

41

Zeno's Conscience

3,458 members

45 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

42

18,840 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

American Gods {original}

32,859 members

915 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by John Gardner

5,886 members

103 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,262 members

85 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

46

14,182 members

769 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,282 members

84 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

48

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,456 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

49

33,382 members

778 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,936 members

423 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,369 members

167 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

52

24,291 members

575 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,630 members

413 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

10,233 members

189 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,399 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

56

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,937 members

274 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

19,370 members

767 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Irvine Welsh

7,575 members

79 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

59

by Günter Grass

7,408 members

91 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

60

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

14,785 members

358 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,935 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

62

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,953 members

194 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

63

The Red and the Black

9,237 members

130 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

64

The Blade Itself

by Joe Abercrombie

7,068 members

225 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

65

The House in the Cerulean Sea

5,160 members

277 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

12,404 members

194 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

67

by Heinrich Böll

2,409 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

68

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

13,981 members

189 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

69

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,876 members

474 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

70

by J. G. Ballard

3,423 members

76 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

71

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,883 members

48 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

72

by William Makepeace Thackeray

950 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

73

by Lev Grossman

10,060 members

650 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Lies of Locke Lamora

9,619 members

425 reviews

4.2

Member: KimarieBee

75

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,316 members

51 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

76

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

21,903 members

264 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

77

6,016 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

78

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

by Alan Sillitoe

1,542 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

79

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

17,575 members

432 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

80

402 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

81

Black Sun Rising

by C. S. Friedman

2,533 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story

by Stephen R. Donaldson

2,073 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: KimarieBee

83

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,125 members

110 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

20,923 members

457 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,444 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

6,227 members

105 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

24,391 members

411 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

8,564 members

94 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

89

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,639 members

57 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

90

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,782 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

91

by Gillian Flynn

21,166 members

1,527 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

Money: A Suicide Note

3,207 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

93

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

by Jon Scieszka

10,891 members

655 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

94

10,604 members

181 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

95

19,144 members

408 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

96

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,831 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

by George MacDonald Fraser

2,608 members

66 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

98

The Arctic Incident

11,640 members

130 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

99

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game

by Patricia Highsmith

818 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

100

by George MacDonald Fraser

1,399 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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