| 1 |
|
Jane Eyre
by
4.16 avg rating — 2,418,903 ratings
|
|
| 2 |
|
Vanity Fair
by
3.81 avg rating — 135,354 ratings
|
|
| 3 |
|
The Catcher in the Rye
by
3.80 avg rating — 4,018,317 ratings
|
|
| 4 |
|
David Copperfield
by
4.05 avg rating — 266,786 ratings
|
|
| 5 |
|
Moby Dick: A Classic Sea Adventure – Captain Ahab's Epic Hunt into Madness and Revenge
by
3.57 avg rating — 636,278 ratings
|
|
| 6 |
|
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by
4.31 avg rating — 754,445 ratings
|
|
| 7 |
|
The Book Thief
by
4.39 avg rating — 2,983,558 ratings
|
|
| 8 |
|
The Secret History
by
4.14 avg rating — 1,129,684 ratings
|
|
| 9 |
|
Crime and Punishment
by
4.29 avg rating — 1,162,280 ratings
|
|
| 10 |
|
Rebecca
by
4.25 avg rating — 768,613 ratings
|
|
| 10 |
|
The Thirteenth Tale
by
3.98 avg rating — 331,356 ratings
|
|
| 12 |
|
Liliana (Liliana, #1)
by
3.94 avg rating — 118 ratings
|
|
| 13 |
|
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading (Charlie Joe Jackson, #1)
by
3.96 avg rating — 5,783 ratings
|
|
| 14 |
|
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by
3.77 avg rating — 331,664 ratings
|
|
| 14 |
|
The Stranger
by
4.03 avg rating — 1,533,175 ratings
|
|
| 16 |
|
I Am Legend
by
4.05 avg rating — 161,163 ratings
|
|
| 17 |
|
Sherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
4.14 avg rating — 404,523 ratings
|
|
| 18 |
|
Everyman
by
3.63 avg rating — 22,099 ratings
|
|
| 19 |
|
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
by
3.84 avg rating — 6,022 ratings
|
|
| 19 |
|
Until I Find You
by
3.67 avg rating — 27,969 ratings
|
|
| 21 |
|
The Orphan Master's Son
by
4.07 avg rating — 106,335 ratings
|
|
| 21 |
|
The Mysterious Island
by
4.14 avg rating — 60,766 ratings
|
|
| 23 |
|
The Plague
by
4.02 avg rating — 334,054 ratings
|
|
| 24 |
|
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by
3.88 avg rating — 139,344 ratings
|
|
| 25 |
|
My Name Is Asher Lev
by
4.24 avg rating — 44,209 ratings
|
|
| 26 |
|
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by
4.24 avg rating — 567,718 ratings
|
|
| 26 |
|
Operation Shylock: A Confession
by
3.78 avg rating — 5,669 ratings
|
|
| 28 |
|
The Prague Cemetery: #1 International Bestseller – A Literary Thriller of Alternate History and Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy
by
3.51 avg rating — 31,077 ratings
|
|
| 29 |
|
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by
4.13 avg rating — 56,867 ratings
|
|
| 30 |
|
The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)
by
4.07 avg rating — 57,588 ratings
|
|
| 30 |
|
Out of the Black Land
by
3.67 avg rating — 633 ratings
|
|
| 30 |
|
The Remains of the Day
by
4.14 avg rating — 387,426 ratings
|
|
| 30 |
|
The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1) (Zamonia, #4)
by
4.40 avg rating — 25,506 ratings
|
|
| 34 |
|
The Brothers Karamazov
by
4.40 avg rating — 416,833 ratings
|
|
| 34 |
|
Cooking the Books (Corinna Chapman, #6)
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
|
|
| 34 |
|
The Templeton Twins Have an Idea (Templeton Twins, #1)
by
3.70 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
|
|
| 37 |
|
The Secret of Stoneship Woods
by
3.78 avg rating — 95 ratings
|
|
| 37 |
|
Forbidden Fruit (Corinna Chapman, #5)
by
4.02 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
|
|
| 37 |
|
An Artist of the Floating World
by
3.77 avg rating — 48,919 ratings
|
|
| 40 |
|
Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman, #4)
by
3.96 avg rating — 2,607 ratings
|
|
| 40 |
|
A Clockwork Orange
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 793,548 ratings
|
|
| 42 |
|
Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman, #1)
by
3.84 avg rating — 4,797 ratings
|
|
| 42 |
|
The Dalai Lama's Cat (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #1)
by
4.17 avg rating — 16,843 ratings
|
|
| 44 |
|
The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
by
3.54 avg rating — 2,851 ratings
|
|
| 44 |
|
Heavenly Pleasures (Corinna Chapman, #2)
by
3.96 avg rating — 3,142 ratings
|
|
| 44 |
|
The Art of Purring (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #2)
by
4.42 avg rating — 4,334 ratings
|
|
| 47 |
|
The Lacuna
by
3.83 avg rating — 76,635 ratings
|
|
| 47 |
|
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
by
4.32 avg rating — 33,400 ratings
|
|
| 47 |
|
Devil's Food (Corinna Chapman, #3)
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,722 ratings
|
|
| 47 |
|
The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #3)
by
4.48 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
|
|
| 51 |
|
The Trial
by
3.93 avg rating — 423,600 ratings
|
|
| 51 |
|
I Am the Cheese
by
3.78 avg rating — 17,811 ratings
|
|
| 51 |
|
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by
3.89 avg rating — 56,621 ratings
|
|
| 51 |
|
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
by
4.01 avg rating — 3,425 ratings
|
|
| 55 |
|
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
by
3.88 avg rating — 8,808 ratings
|
|
| 55 |
|
The Ponder Heart
by
3.63 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
|
|
| 57 |
|
The War Between the Tates
by
3.65 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
|
|
| 58 |
|
Breakfast with Buddha
by
3.87 avg rating — 20,032 ratings
|
|
| 59 |
|
An American Tragedy
by
3.97 avg rating — 39,476 ratings
|
|
| 60 |
|
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
by
3.73 avg rating — 59,629 ratings
|
|
| 60 |
|
The Moor's Last Sigh
by
3.94 avg rating — 14,949 ratings
|
|
| 62 |
|
The Fencing Master
by
3.80 avg rating — 12,242 ratings
|
|
| 63 |
|
Absurdistan
by
3.33 avg rating — 14,144 ratings
|
|
newest »
I added Camus' "The Stranger" which, as I recall, is also narrated by the author.
"The Stranger" is a first person narration, but does Meursault ever actually engage with the reader (i.e., address the reader directly, as if telling his story in conversation rather than in book form)? As I recall, it is rather his extreme withdrawal and disconnectedness that characterizes the book ...
I think perhaps a description of the criteria for this list would be helpful, as "involved narrator" can be interpreted many different ways. My interpretation was that this list is for those books with intrusive narrators who speak directly to the reader, interrupt the story with side notes and explanations, and who are basically separate (though often anonymous) characters.
