List of novels by point of view

List of novels by point of view

The following alphabetical lists of novels are categorized by the narrator's point of view.

The intent of this article is not to be comprehensive, but to compare at a glance various points of view by providing well known examples.

First person

First person present-tense

Everything happens in the character's 'now'.
* Atwood, "Cat's Eye"
* Dubus, "House of Sand and Fog"
* Ellis, "American Psycho"
* Frey, "A Million Little Pieces"
* Hornby, "High Fidelity"
* Palahniuk, "Fight Club"
* Wong, "The Pacific Between"

First person protagonist

Where the narrator is the protagonist of the novel
* Dinesen, "Out of Africa"
* Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"
* Sebold, "The Lovely Bones"

First person ancillary

Where the narrator observes action, but is an ancillary character
* Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes"
* Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
* Fournier, "Le Grand Meaulnes"
* Kesey, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
* Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
* Mann, "Doktor Faustus"

Multiple first person

Where multiple characters individually narrate from first-person POV
* Irving, "Setting Free the Bears"
* Korman, "No More Dead Dogs"
*William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying (novel)"
*Graham Swift, "Last Orders"
*Julian Barnes, "Talking it Over"
*Ana Castillo, "The Guardians"
*Charles Baxter, "The Feast of Love"

econd person

Present tense

* Calvino, "If on a winter's night a traveller" (odd-numbered chapters)
* McInerney, "Bright Lights, Big City (novel)"
* Robbins, "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas"
* Camus, "The Fall (novel)"

Past tense

* Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", ch. 1

Third person

Third person, limited

* Card, "Ender's Game". The parallel novel "Ender's Shadow" is told from the same limited perspective following a different character.
* Kelman, "how late it was, how late".

Third person, omniscient or dramatic

* McCullough, "The Thornbirds"
* Mitchell, "Gone with the Wind"
* Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

Third person, objective

*Wolfe, "The Right Stuff"

Multiple points of view

*Faulkner, "The Sound and The Fury"
*Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
*Wharton, "Ethan Frome"

Alternate point of view

ee also

* Literature
* Point of view
* Literary terms


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