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Jane Eyre
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Vanity Fair
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The Catcher in the Rye
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David Copperfield
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Moby Dick: A Classic Sea Adventure – Captain Ahab's Epic Hunt into Madness and Revenge
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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The Book Thief
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The Secret History
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Crime and Punishment
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Rebecca
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Liliana (Liliana, #1)
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Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading (Charlie Joe Jackson, #1)
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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The Stranger
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I Am Legend
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Sherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Everyman
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Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
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Until I Find You
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The Orphan Master's Son
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The Mysterious Island
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The Plague
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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My Name Is Asher Lev
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
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The Prague Cemetery: #1 International Bestseller – A Literary Thriller of Alternate History and Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
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The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)
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Out of the Black Land
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The Remains of the Day
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The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1) (Zamonia, #4)
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Cooking the Books (Corinna Chapman, #6)
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The Secret of Stoneship Woods
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
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Heavenly Pleasures (Corinna Chapman, #2)
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The Art of Purring (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #2)
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The Lacuna
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The Trial
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I Am the Cheese
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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The Ponder Heart
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The War Between the Tates
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Breakfast with Buddha
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An American Tragedy
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The Moor's Last Sigh
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The Fencing Master
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Absurdistan
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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.
