Books List

Me, Myself & I: First-Person Narrators

By Damian Van Denburgh

Whether beginning with a formal introduction, a confession, or in one instance, a flat-out lie, these books are inhabited by an array of powerfully singular characters whose life stories just have to be told—and by nobody else but them.

CRITICAL LIST

The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

Dave Eggers

The Healing

Gayl Jones

Confessions of Zeno

Italo Svevo

The Lover

Marguerite Duras

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

I’m Not Stiller

Max Frisch

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Bastard out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Portnoy’s Complaint

Philip Roth