List of novels by point of view
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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.
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[edit] First person
[edit] 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
[edit] First person protagonist
Where the narrator is the protagonist of the novel
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Second person
[edit] 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)
[edit] Past tense
- Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1
[edit] Third person
[edit] 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.
[edit] Third person, omniscient or dramatic
[edit] Third person, objective
[edit] Multiple points of view
[edit] Alternate point of view
[edit] See also
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