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Best Antiheroes and Antiheroines

Based on tag: anti-hero
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alex68, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, KimarieBee

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

by William Shakespeare

5,942 members

86 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,772 members

671 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,037 members

614 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,678 members

1,134 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

7

by Albert Camus

34,360 members

491 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

16,359 members

128 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Mary Shelley

40,813 members

695 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,458 members

477 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

11

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,680 members

1,063 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,341 members

438 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, alex68, ahef1963

13

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,648 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,300 members

191 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,717 members

92 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,246 members

379 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

17

by Gustave Flaubert

25,497 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,969 members

548 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,023 members

319 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

7,818 members

179 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,519 members

428 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,516 members

172 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Herman Melville

34,107 members

520 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

24

by Joseph Heller

38,919 members

514 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

25

6,369 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

13,316 members

109 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

27

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,183 members

134 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

28

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,567 members

241 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

29

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,537 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

30

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,619 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

31

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,278 members

341 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

4,909 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

34

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,332 members

324 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,448 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,700 members

237 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

37

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,082 members

166 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

38

Interview with the Vampire

22,250 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

39

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

by Quentin Tarantino

827 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

12,000 members

148 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

41

Zeno's Conscience

3,462 members

45 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

42

18,856 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

American Gods {original}

32,873 members

916 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by John Gardner

5,890 members

103 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,268 members

85 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

46

14,194 members

770 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,285 members

84 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

48

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,457 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

49

33,424 members

778 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,950 members

423 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,371 members

167 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

52

24,308 members

575 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,644 members

413 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

10,244 members

189 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,433 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

56

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,945 members

274 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

19,393 members

766 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Irvine Welsh

7,582 members

79 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

59

by Günter Grass

7,410 members

91 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

60

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

14,804 members

359 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,941 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

62

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,962 members

194 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

63

The Red and the Black

9,242 members

130 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

64

The Blade Itself

by Joe Abercrombie

7,078 members

225 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

65

The House in the Cerulean Sea

5,173 members

279 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

12,414 members

195 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

67

by Heinrich Böll

2,413 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

68

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

13,992 members

189 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

69

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,887 members

474 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

70

by J. G. Ballard

3,425 members

76 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

71

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,886 members

48 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

72

by William Makepeace Thackeray

951 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

73

by Lev Grossman

9,798 members

650 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Lies of Locke Lamora

9,631 members

425 reviews

4.2

Member: KimarieBee

75

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,318 members

52 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

76

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

21,921 members

265 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

77

6,022 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

17,589 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

2,535 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

8,127 members

110 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

20,937 members

457 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,450 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

6,233 members

105 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

24,424 members

411 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

8,567 members

94 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

89

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,640 members

57 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

90

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,793 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

91

by Gillian Flynn

21,194 members

1,527 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

Money: A Suicide Note

3,208 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

93

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

by Jon Scieszka

10,906 members

655 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

94

10,603 members

181 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

95

19,165 members

408 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

96

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,850 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

11,653 members

130 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

99

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

by Patricia Highsmith

819 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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