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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

6,266 members

88 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,356 members

708 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by William Shakespeare

33,055 members

308 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,796 members

638 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,617 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by William Shakespeare

15,160 members

147 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

7

by Albert Camus

35,688 members

510 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

17,071 members

132 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Mary Shelley

42,977 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,454 members

496 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

11

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,855 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,902 members

457 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, alex68, ahef1963

13

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,240 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,776 members

193 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,092 members

96 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

26,004 members

389 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

17

by Gustave Flaubert

26,358 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,849 members

565 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,371 members

325 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,076 members

181 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,684 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,264 members

179 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Herman Melville

35,677 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

24

by Joseph Heller

40,190 members

529 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

25

6,640 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

14,015 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

27

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,387 members

140 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

28

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,979 members

245 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

29

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,271 members

298 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

30

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,632 members

20 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

31

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,667 members

342 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,092 members

96 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,053 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

34

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,055 members

339 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,992 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,543 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

37

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,256 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

38

Interview with the Vampire

22,984 members

333 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

39

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

by Quentin Tarantino

856 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,624 members

156 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

41

Zeno's Conscience

3,604 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

42

19,248 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

American Gods {original}

33,717 members

933 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by John Gardner

6,070 members

108 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,430 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

46

15,059 members

804 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,518 members

87 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

48

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,571 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

49

by Terry Pratchett

34,994 members

794 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,817 members

435 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,571 members

172 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

52

25,043 members

580 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,235 members

426 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

10,566 members

190 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,694 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

56

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,194 members

280 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

20,620 members

795 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Irvine Welsh

7,777 members

79 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

59

by Günter Grass

7,623 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

60

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,857 members

378 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,198 members

141 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

62

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,252 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

63

The Red and the Black

9,556 members

136 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

64

The Blade Itself

by Joe Abercrombie

7,549 members

243 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

65

The House in the Cerulean Sea

6,359 members

331 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

13,133 members

205 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

67

by Heinrich Böll

2,486 members

40 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

68

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

14,413 members

193 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

69

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,156 members

489 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

70

by J. G. Ballard

3,562 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

71

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,015 members

48 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

72

by William Makepeace Thackeray

991 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

73

by Lev Grossman

10,365 members

674 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Lies of Locke Lamora

10,273 members

442 reviews

4.2

Member: KimarieBee

75

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,544 members

53 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

76

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,562 members

276 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

77

6,164 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

78

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

by Alan Sillitoe

1,576 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

79

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

18,230 members

453 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

80

420 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

81

Black Sun Rising

by C. S. Friedman

2,618 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story

by Stephen R. Donaldson

2,136 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

83

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,343 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,488 members

477 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,602 members

271 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

6,447 members

105 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,730 members

436 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

8,732 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

89

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,776 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

90

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,553 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

91

by Gillian Flynn

22,295 members

1,547 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

Money: A Suicide Note

3,309 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

93

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

by Jon Scieszka

11,612 members

681 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

94

11,049 members

184 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

95

19,916 members

418 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

96

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,729 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

by George MacDonald Fraser

2,675 members

66 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

98

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

12,216 members

135 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

99

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

by Patricia Highsmith

855 members

17 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

100

by George MacDonald Fraser

1,420 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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