First-person narrative novels

1942 novel by Albert Camus

1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

1884 novel by Mark Twain

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens

French novel by Albert Camus

1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway

novel by John Green

1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1932 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1926 novel by Agatha Christie

1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

1959 military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein

1930 novel by Agatha Christie

1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

novel by Raymond Chandler

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

2003 novel by Mark Haddon

novel by Daphne du Maurier

1963 novel by Sylvia Plath

1983 children's book by Roald Dahl

1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel

novel by H. Rider Haggard

novel by Kathryn Stockett

erotic novel

picaresque novel by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1669)

1898 novella by Henry James

1908 novel by Jack London

2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger

2005 novel by John Green

novel by James M. Cain

2013 novel by Donna Tartt

1955 novel by Graham Greene

1982 novel by Charles Bukowski

1853 Victorian bildungsroman by Charlotte Brontë

Animorphs is a science fantasy series of youth books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives. The core themes of the series are horror, war, imperialism, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, family, and growing up.

1980 novel by J.M. Coetzee

James Bond novel by Ian Fleming

2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

novel by Max Frisch

novel by S. E. Hinton

novel by Lee Child

2004 Japanese varsity novel written by Tomihiko Morimi and published by Ohta Publishing

2021 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

2013 novel by Stephen King

1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren

novel by V. C. Andrews

2016 novel by Sayaka Murata

2013 novel by Ann Leckie

novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

2019 novel by Alex Michaelides

2018 novel by Heather Morris

2009 crime novel by Olga Tokarczuk

novel by Willa Cather

1994 novel by Michel Houellebecq

American children's novel, 2015, first in the Magnus Chase series (Percy Jackson universe)

2023 fantasy novel

young adult war novel by John Marsden

1896 novel by Mark Twain