Books with "Anti Heroes"
Are you tired of reading about perfect, flawless heroes who always do the right thing? Well, fear not my friends, because the antihero is here to save the day! These characters are flawed, complex, and often downright unlikable, but that's what makes them so entertaining to read about.
Prince of Thorns- Mark Lawrence
Readers said:
"single character driven plot", "first person narrative", "classic revenge story", "well developed plot"
When he was nine, he watched as his mother and brother were killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king… ...Read More
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Vicious- V.E. Schwab
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"there is no hero", "interesting and original", "addictive", "good plot twists"
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. ...Read More
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The Blade Itself- Joe Abercrombie
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"cynical, dark, high fantasy", "vivid, visceral prose", "the characters are well-written", "compelling and witty"
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.
Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. ...Read More
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American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
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"an unreliable narrator", "well written and compelling", "sick torture pornography", "tongue and cheek style"
In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.
Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. ...Read More
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Hench- Natalie Zina Walschots
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"humor and satire", "zippy and fun despite all the villainy", "the destructive cost of superheroes", "b movie"
The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet.
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn't glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? ...Read More
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The Poppy War- R.F. Kuang
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"a debut novel", "fantasy genre fiction", "succinctly but nicely written", "another eastern fantasy"
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu's Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy. ...Read More
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Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Readers said:
"mental disorders and suffering", "psychological character study", "visceral suspenseful prose", "first person narrative"
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity?
So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. ...Read More
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Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
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"love or hate book", "lack of vulgar words", "complexities and tensions", "thick and overly descriptive"
Awe and exhiliration - along with heartbreak and mordant wit-abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love-love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. ...Read More
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The Talented Mr. Ripley- Patricia Highsmith
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"psychological crime novel", "a classic thriller", "simple, unadorned prose", "more of a noir"
'He is using you for what you are worth'
Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it.Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, Ripley leaps at the chance to start afresh on a free trip to Europe. But when his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.
This is the first in Highsmith's classic series featuring the character of Tom Ripley. The Talented Mr Ripley also inspired the Academy Award-winning film starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law.
One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. ...Read More
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A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
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"english/russian pidgin tongue", "ultra violence and language", "one possible future", "vivid, cruel, and evocative"
In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. ...Read More
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