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Best Antiheroes and Antiheroines

Based on tag: anti-hero

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Rank Title Author Added

1

by William Shakespeare

6,239 members

88 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,122 members

705 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by William Shakespeare

31,072 members

292 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,611 members

635 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,333 members

1,172 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by William Shakespeare

15,094 members

147 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

7

by Albert Camus

35,573 members

507 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

16,965 members

131 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Mary Shelley

42,771 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,277 members

494 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

11

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,657 members

1,081 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,757 members

456 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, alex68, ahef1963

13

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,166 members

315 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,719 members

191 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,055 members

96 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,912 members

389 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

17

by Gustave Flaubert

26,266 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,758 members

564 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,370 members

325 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,051 members

181 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,564 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,199 members

177 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Herman Melville

35,664 members

543 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

24

by Joseph Heller

40,079 members

527 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

25

6,615 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

13,959 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

27

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,367 members

139 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

28

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,920 members

244 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

29

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,266 members

298 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

30

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,630 members

20 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

31

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,621 members

341 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,081 members

96 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,037 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

34

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,001 members

337 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,933 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,458 members

244 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

37

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,215 members

171 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

38

Interview with the Vampire

22,971 members

333 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

39

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

by Quentin Tarantino

853 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,569 members

156 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

41

Zeno's Conscience

3,584 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

42

19,174 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

American Gods {original}

33,626 members

932 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by John Gardner

6,057 members

108 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,410 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

46

14,942 members

803 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,496 members

87 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

48

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,556 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

49

by Terry Pratchett

34,810 members

789 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,704 members

432 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,547 members

170 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

52

24,969 members

580 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,175 members

424 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

10,543 members

190 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,579 members

331 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

56

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,172 members

280 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

20,474 members

791 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Irvine Welsh

7,760 members

79 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

59

by Günter Grass

7,616 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

60

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,742 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,163 members

141 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

62

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,234 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

63

The Red and the Black

9,523 members

136 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

64

The Blade Itself

by Joe Abercrombie

7,518 members

240 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

65

The House in the Cerulean Sea

6,259 members

329 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

13,035 members

205 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

67

by Heinrich Böll

2,483 members

40 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

68

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

14,376 members

192 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

69

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,106 members

488 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

70

by J. G. Ballard

3,559 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

71

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,000 members

48 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

72

by William Makepeace Thackeray

986 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

73

by Lev Grossman

10,291 members

672 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Lies of Locke Lamora

10,196 members

440 reviews

4.2

Member: KimarieBee

75

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,520 members

53 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

76

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,493 members

274 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

77

6,150 members

110 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

78

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

by Alan Sillitoe

1,575 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

79

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

18,165 members

449 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

80

419 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

81

Black Sun Rising

by C. S. Friedman

2,612 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story

by Stephen R. Donaldson

2,130 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

83

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,325 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,412 members

476 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,574 members

271 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

6,418 members

105 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,587 members

434 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

8,720 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

89

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,751 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

90

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,522 members

441 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

91

by Gillian Flynn

22,182 members

1,543 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

Money: A Suicide Note

3,297 members

55 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

93

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

by Jon Scieszka

11,499 members

681 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

94

11,008 members

184 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

95

19,851 members

417 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

96

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,632 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

by George MacDonald Fraser

2,664 members

66 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

98

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

12,143 members

134 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

99

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

by Patricia Highsmith

850 members

17 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

100

by George MacDonald Fraser

1,415 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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